The media would have you believe Michele Bachmann is a “flake”— see here for examples —but Mark McKinnon says anyone who buys into that is in for a big surprise. “Bachmann is not crazy, but the media are if they continue to view her as such,” he writes at the…
Continue reading …News Corp. is hoping to part with struggling social network site MySpace this week, and will likely lay off more than half of the remaining staff of 500, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company is looking to cut a deal tomorrow or Thursday in order to…
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For the first time, His Holiness the Pope has made a Twitter footprint. Make that a fingerprint, since he pushed click himself to send the very first Papal tweet this afternoon. Short and sweet, his message even had 23 characters to spare: “Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With
Continue reading …Title: When You Were Mine Artist: Mitch Ryder Hope y’alls week started off on the right foot. Here’s a Prince penned piece covered by Mitch Ryder in 1983.
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Two helicopters from the NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan fired on and killed three
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He’s jailbroken the iPhone and been sued by Sony over alleged hacks, and now George ” Geohot ” Hotz is grappling with the biggest challenge of his young career: social networking. After about a week’s worth of rumors surrounding his new employment arrangements, Facebook confirmed that it has indeed added the infamous young hacker to its payroll. No word on what Hotz will be doing at the site, but we expect big things, just so long as he doesn’t come within 100 feet of a PS3 . Facebook likes, hires iPhone jailbreaker ‘Geohot’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Yes, yes, of course: Reasonable people differ… shrill… not helpful to attack natural allies… coalition of one… changing government is haaaard, etc. But I’m glad there’s still one brave person standing up and yelling at the clouds floating between his fellow Congresscritters’ ears: As the debate over deficits ramped up in Washington on Monday, Sen. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Balloon Juice Discovery Date : 28/06/2011 00:31 Number of articles : 4
Continue reading …The Republican presidential contest is picking up steam. Obama is consistently polling under 50 percent. This one's a toss-up, and in the thick of it is the Fox News Channel. It's not just their role in hosting and vetting the candidates. It's their role as the chief villain in the eyes of liberal Democrats struggling to push their version of the “truth” about Obama.
Continue reading …Google’s highly anticipated social networking project is here—and it’s interesting, but “far from a Facebook-killer,” writes Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land . (For starters, it’s named Google+, which, as Sullivan points out, is awful: “Google+? Google+! I can’t even question or exclaim about the bad name without it looking…
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It Ain’t Rocket Science: Science Fact and Fiction Travel Videos: Best of Australia (May 2009 – April 2011) Tasmanian Devil LillianThornton says: Virgin backs Tasmanian devil campaign http://bit.ly/kknrbF
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