FOX News cuts away from ‘Giffords vigil’ when Sarah Palin’s name is mentioned
January 9, 2011 No Comment
Click here to view this media Fox News started covering a vigil that was happening at the steps of the capitol in Arizona in honor of Gabrielle Giffords after she was shot earlier today. As soon as a young man mentioned Sarah Palin’s name, FOX News abruptly cut to commercial. It’s sickening. FOX News will do anything to protect the investment they have made in Sarah Palin, even at the expense of Rep. Giffords. Smith: in addition we are noticing outside the capitol in Phoenix with pictures courtesy of KSAZ, which I’m told you can put up there; a vigil is taking place… Man: Gabby, we have to look into our hearts and say to ourselves why, why do I want power. Not that I want power. And I say to you Sarah Palin. {Smash Cut to commercial.} . Sarah Palin has today been under criticism because of her insane “Target Map” in which Giffords was a member of those that were put in the cross-hairs. Elisabeth Hasselbeck was one of Sarah Palin’s biggest fans during the 2008 election so it surprising to see her bash Sarah Palin over her over the top “Re-Load” Face Book chart and called it despicable. In never-thought-you’d-see-the-day news, staunch conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck went off on The View yesterday, railing against none other than Sarah Palin. Why? Because Palin, for whom she campaigned during the ’08 election, released an ad that put 20 Democratic members of Congress literally in the crosshairs. — The former Alaska Governor’s Facebook page features her political action committee’s ad targeting the 20 Democratic incumbents, with a SarahPac map marking districts where Democrats voted “yes” for health care reform with guns . — Hasselbeck also opposes health reform, but she’s actually far more upset about how people on her own side of the political spectrum are handling themselves. “I think the way some Republicans are handling this is nothing more than despicable,” she said in response to Palin’s tasteless ad. “It’s disappointing to see this coming from the Party , and I would hope that leaders like Sarah Palin would end this.” The violence that we predicted is taking place and it’s even scaring the likes of Hasselbeck. FWIW, here’s the SarahPAC graphic in question: enlarge No wonder Fox and Palin want everyone to forget. Especially Fox. There’s nothing they won’t do to protect Sarah Palin. (h/t Dave Weigel tweet)
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Do you love 3D ? Do you love pictures? Do you love 3D pictures? The ViewFun 3D Show picture frame from ViewSonic may just be your fix you’ve been dreaming of. The $179 photo viewer jankily converts 2D stills to 3D (and videos, too, apparently, although we didn’t get to see a demo) and eliminates the use for those funky glasses . The images remind us of holograms we used to find in cereal boxes, except bigger. The 8-inch frame sports capacitive buttons on the bezel that light up on contact. Along the left side of device, you’ll find a USB 2.0 port, SD slot and power button. In order to stand this thing up, the company packed a pull-out plastic kickstand that felt pretty flimsy. Oh, and the remote control we demoed had improper button mapping, which made it virtually useless. Peek the gallery below the fold for a bunch of shots of this thing on the CES show floor. Gallery: ViewSonic ViewFun 3D Show hands-on ViewSonic ViewFun 3D Show photo frame hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 08 Jan 2011 21:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …GOOGLE.COM recently released the official 50 Most Googled Women in 2010 list. Popular music performer/composer Lady Gaga topped the list, which is not surprising at all. The very brave and provocative celebrity surprised the world when she released her music video ‘Telephone’, which is a duet with Beyonce Knowles. The collaboration was being praised by Lady Gaga tops the 50 Most Googled Women in 2010 list is a post from: Daily World Buzz
Continue reading …Pleo RB cuddles up to CES, we go hands-on and talk to Innvo about future Pleos
January 9, 2011 No Comment
The folks behind the Pleo robot dinosaur didn’t have much but promises and a giant, not-for-sale version of the bot at last year’s CES , but Innvo Labs has come through this year. They have a number of their new Pleo RB dinos on hand, and we got a chance to both check them out and talk to Innvo COO Derek Dotson about what the future might hold for the robot dinosaur that refused to die . As for the current Pleo RB, while it may look relatively unchanged from before, it does boast some fairly impressive improvements, including voice recognition (with any language), more touch sensors, the ability to sense temperatures, RFID-based “learning stone technology” for feeding and other advanced commands, and time of day awareness. As you might be able to surmise, the combination of those latter two means that the Pleo will get slow and lethargic if you don’t take care of it, but Innvo assures us that it won’t actually die (just make you incredibly sad). It sounds like we could be seeing some even bigger changes in future generations of Pleo, though. Innvo tells us that they’ve basically pushed the current design to the limit, and they seem to be keeping all options on the table for future models. We asked about different versions, internet-connectedness, and even a Roomba-like ability to recharge itself, and Dotson said that Innvo considering all of those, but that it doesn’t want to rush and do anything that would dilute the Pleo brand. Hit up the gallery below for a closer look at the Pleo RB, and head on past the break for a video. Gallery: Pleo RB hands-on Continue reading Pleo RB cuddles up to CES, we go hands-on and talk to Innvo about future Pleos Pleo RB cuddles up to CES, we go hands-on and talk to Innvo about future Pleos originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 08 Jan 2011 21:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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On Tuesday 12 January 2010, Haiti was jolted and broken by an earthquake which killed 230,000 people. Today, despite pledges of billions and the presence of thousands of aid groups and missions, its people’s plight is a festering global scandal. Twelve months after the quake wrecked 350,000 homes and left at least 1.5 million people homeless, 87 per cent of the survivors are still living in squalid, dangerous tented camps. Dozens of rapes are committed every day, and so much rubble is uncleared that what remains on the ground, clogging any serious reconstruction, would fill trucks which would stretch halfway round the world. All this in a country which, staggeringly, hosts tourists from…
Continue reading …General Motors takes us on a crazy test ride in the EN-V electric prototype vehicle (video)
January 9, 2011 No Comment
Cars are big and stupid. Well, most of the time, anyway. Need to bring home a couple sheets of drywall in the rain? Man it’s nice to have a big truck with a cab. Need to run Jr. to school five miles away on a smoothly paved? Suddenly that full-size, extended cab, 13.5mpg dually monster starts seeming just a little silly. Assuming people continue their flock to the cities, in the future that latter situation will be an awful lot more common than the former and our cities simply won’t be able to manage. The streets won’t be wide enough, parking garages tall enough, nor oil wells deep enough. We need something different, and GM thinks that something is the EN-V . Even though it still isn’t the future we just got a drive in one, so read on for our impressions. Gallery: GM EN-V test drive at CES 2011 Continue reading General Motors takes us on a crazy test ride in the EN-V electric prototype vehicle (video) General Motors takes us on a crazy test ride in the EN-V electric prototype vehicle (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 08 Jan 2011 21:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Marshawn Lynch absolutely destroyed the Saints defense on this 76-yard run where he broke no less than 6 tackles and embarrassed no less than anyone associated with the New Orleans Saints. This is one of the sickest runs in the history of the NFL, right? Oh, and when was the last time a 7-9 squad won in the Playoffs? Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Big Lead Discovery Date : 09/01/2011 01:59 Number of articles : 6
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This says it all. Sarah Palin, at the very least, needs to apologize for her tragic misjudgment if she is to remain in public life. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily Dish Discovery Date : 09/01/2011 01:43 Number of articles : 7
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This says it all. Sarah Palin, at the very least, needs to apologize for her tragic misjudgment if she is to remain in public life. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily Dish Discovery Date : 09/01/2011 01:43 Number of articles : 7
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This says it all. Sarah Palin, at the very least, needs to apologize for her tragic misjudgment if she is to remain in public life. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily Dish Discovery Date : 09/01/2011 01:43 Number of articles : 7
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