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Facebook Roundup: Events, Facebook in D.C., LivingSocial, ...
Facebook Partnering With EventBrite? – Does the screenshot below show an as-yet-unannounced way for people to tickets for events on Facebook via EventBrite? Or does it just show a way for people to buy tickets to Facebook’s developer conference in...
From: Inside Facebook | By: Sara Inés Calderón | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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The warped platitude of DC "centrism"
The Washington Post's Dana Milbank dresses up in idiotic costumes, and the overriding attribute of his commentary is adolescent, above-it-all snideness, and he's thus deemed a wild, unpredictable, creative "contrarian" in Beltway media circles.  In...
From: Salon.com | By: Glenn Greenwald | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Pandora Delivers Internet Radio for Kids
I have been a huge fan of Internet radio for a long time. It has introduced me to many bands I’d never have heard of otherwise (whose music I went on to purchase). And network Pandora has taken the Internet radio phenom one step further, adding an...
From: Wired | By: Ken Denmead | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Don't Blame Flabby Ex-Jocks for NutriSystem's Woes
As tempting as it may be to blame NutriSystem's flagging profits on its cheesy ad campaign featuring former football greats, investors should look elsewhere. Continue reading Don't Blame Flabby Ex-Jocks for NutriSystem's Woes Don't Blame Flabby Ex-Jocks...
From: Daily Finance | By: Dan Burrows | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Rush Limbaugh, still pissed about hippies after all these ...
Even though I am kind of a hippie — an evolved hippie —I was amused this rant from Friday's show, which I listened to in podcast form just now. What set him off was this dreamy Nancy Pelosi murmur: PELOSI: Think of an economy where people could be...
From: Ann Althouse | By: Ann Althouse | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Plasticine Art Showcase: Shape Your Imagination
  Do you remember?.. The first time you played with pieces of modeling clay, melting them in your hands and going deeper and deeper into the colourful plasticine world where your imagination was the only limit. Since the 19th century, when Franz Kolb...
From: Smashing Magazine | By: Aygul Zagidullina | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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SXSW: Dynamo Takes on YouTube for Indie Film Rentals
Independent filmmakers will soon have a new option for renting their films to viewers online: Dynamo, a start-up set to be announced at South by Southwest on Saturday evening, which will allow video producers to set their own prices and embed their videos...
From: Wired | By: Eliot Van Buskirk | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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WIN IT! ‘New Moon’ and ‘Twilight in Forks’ on DVD ...
OK! is giving away five copies of one of the most talked about films of 2009! The Twilight Saga: New Moon, will be released on a Two-Disc Special Edition DVD and Special Edition Blu-ray on March 20, 2010. A Saturday street date that will allow for fans...
From: OK Magazine | By: OK! Staff | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Joe Six Packs of Israel, Invaded by Palin and Kristol and ...
"But it didn't become a battle royal until a Jewish-American billionaire, borrowing a page from Fox News, launched a "fair and balanced" newspaper to counter what he called liberal media. "It's turning into a jungle," said Daniel Ben-Simon, a member...
From: Arabia Deserta | By: Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Light Cycle-Jumping A 28-Year Gap
Confession: Despite growing up in the 1980s as a total science-fiction nerd and video game nut, I somehow never saw Tron. Yes, I played the heck out of the arcade game every chance I got, and yes, I pretended summertime Frisbees were deadly identity...
From: Wired | By: John Booth | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Pop Up Ads ...
I am getting bombarded here on GretaWire with a pop up ad that just won't go away no matter how many times I try to close it.  It is annoying to me....and I assume it is likewise annoying to you if you are getting it since it just won't stop.  As you...
From: Fox News | By: Greta Van Susteren | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Gaga and Beyonce's epic sandwich spread ad
How do you rack up over 650,000 hits on YouTube in just a few hours for something that's essentially a ten-minute commercial? You'll need girls in prison. Lady Gaga. Beyonce. Mass murder. Oh, and sandwich-making. The music video for the power duet "Telephone"...
From: Salon.com | By: Mary Elizabeth Williams | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Kabuki Play
Michael Isikoff and Michael Hirsh are on to something here, when they call Liz Cheney "Palin with a pedigree." I hadn't thought about it that way, but Cheney is also a somewhat youthful mother of five who sells herself as a living...
From: Hullabaloo | By: digby | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Carly Fiorina’s Senate Campaign Still On LSD With New ...
Because portraying competitor Tom Campbell as some sort of laser-shooting evil sheep wasn't weird enough, California Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina has now set her sights - and Terry Gilliam-wannabe ad guy Fred Davis III - on current Democratic Junior...
From: Mediaite | By: Drew Grant | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Bill Maher once again shows his complete ignorance of science ...
Bill Maher, who has smoked just one too many joints in his life, once again stuck his hoof in his mouth. On his show "Real Time," which aired March 12, he said Republicans weren't disgusted by cap and trade when Bush Sr. used it to stop acid rain. How...
From: Free Republic | By: Climate Change Fraud | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Doing The Friday Megalinks
Let’s do the megalinks for you. Time to give them to you now. As always, you get the Weekend Viewing Picks which this weekend has the skinny on the college basketball conference tournaments and other sports. Now to your links. National USA Today’s...
From: Boston Sports Media Watch | By: Ken Fang | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Nevada Senate: Angle Up with Radio Ad Monday
Former Nevada Assemblywoman Sharron Angle (R) will be the second Republican to go on the air in the Senate primary with a new radio ad starting Monday. The 60-second spot, airing statewide for the next two weeks, critiques the the federal government's...
From: CQ Politics | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Spotlight: L&L Hawaiian Barbecue – a rare fast-food ...
Editor’s note: Please welcome The Register’s Travel Editor Gary Warner, who tells us why this Hawaiian fast-food chain is worth a visit. ———————– When it comes to fast food, Southern California is a famed exporter, the birthplace...
From: Orange County Register | By: garywarner | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Awesome: Murray Hill Inc. runs for Congress
A recent ruling by the Supremes granting unprecedented rights to corporations to wield influence through campaign donations has drawn widespread ire, most notably by President Obama during his State of the Union address. In a brilliant piece of satire,...
From: The Inquisitr | By: Kim LaCapria | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Someone used or hacked my computer to commit a crime? what ...
Hello, I need IMMEDIATE Help on a computer crime that I was arrested for. It may involve my computer, my ip, and my ex-girlfriend being the true criminal. The police do not tell you much they are very vague. I was charged though! So my questions are:...
From: Server Fault | By: srguws | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Corporate entity becomes ‘candidate’, kicks off bid ...
When the Supreme Court decided the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, henceforth allowing corporate soft money to influence U.S. elections, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) cynically opined that it would lead to the election of the "congressman...
From: The Raw Story | By: Stephen C. Webster | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Online separation? Newspapers have been there and done ...
I was reading Alan Mutter's spot-on Andreessen’s not-so-hot idea for publishers and once again ran across some comments of the "newspapers need to set up separate online operations and give them freedom" variety. Here's the problem: It's been done,...
From: Steve Yelvington | By: yelvington | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Two Thoughts about China's Cities
Does urban infrastructure such as new airports cause urban growth? China is running an interesting "natural experiment" in cities such as Libo (a city of about 166,000 in a mountainous region in Guizhou, one of the poorest provinces in China) Source...
From: Environmental and Urban Economics | By: Matthew E. Kahn | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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SXSW 4: Tocquigny Party in the Frost Tower + Parkside
This party comes with a following. The full-service advertising agency Tocquigny matches well with SXSW Interactive. Several folks who attended last year recommended it. But I didn’t commit until I’d been contacted directly by Craig Saper, and, later...
From: Austin American-Statesman | By: By Michael Barnes | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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CBS News Gets Coffee Party Fever: It's a Lot Like TEA Parties ...
On Friday, CBSNews.com's blog Political Hotsheet ran a gushing article that amounted to free advertising for the left's new gimmick of coffee parties. Aside from the friendly tone and complete lack of criticism, the most astounding part was when writer...
From: NewsBusters | By: Candance Moore | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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The Austin Tea Party
The highlight of the day was hearing the word "Curation" spoken out loud about 20 times. It is what's next. And I'm not just saying that because I've been saying that for about a year, I'm saying it because it's true.
From: Huffington Post | By: Josh Rose | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Slacker Radio Secretly Preparing On-Demand Music Service ...
The Slacker music service, the critically-praised interactive radio service our readers helped us discover in ‘07, plans to launch an on-demand subscription service combining elements of Pandora, Rhapsody and Spotify in the next few months, Wired.com...
From: Wired | By: Eliot Van Buskirk | Friday, March 12, 2010
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One on One: Andrey Ternovskiy, Creator of Chatroulette
A interview with the Andrey Ternovskiy, the 17-year-old Russian founder of Chatroulette who has abandoned high school to travel the world and meet with technology investors.
From: New York Times | By: NICK BILTON | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Moyers Blasts Chamber of Commerce, Insurance Industry
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship sure have something against health care insurance companies and the Chamber of Commerce. Moyers, the liberal host of PBS’s “Bill Moyers Journal,” and Winship, the show’s senior writer, slammed both for making money...
From: NewsBusters | By: Sarah Knoploh | Friday, March 12, 2010
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What We're Reading: A Cook, a Slacker, Some Bubbly and ...
Our daily roundup of tech tidbits features a Flickr visualization of seasonal colors, Tim Cook's $5 million bonus, an upstart competitor to Twitter and Slacker Radio's upcoming music service.
From: New York Times | By: THE NEW YORK TIMES | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Smartphone Users Want Mobile Coupons, Barcode Scanners ...
Once upon a time, smartphones were mostly about connecting busy professionals with their email accounts while on the go. Now that smartphones have reached the mainstream consumer market, however, people are looking for more than just email access - and...
From: Read Write Web | By: Frederic Lardinois | Friday, March 12, 2010
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The Slaughter Solution, And Other Tactics For Passing Health ...
If you watch cable news this weekend (which, if you a normal and well-adjusted person, you probably won't), you'll likely hear a lot of discussion about the so-called Slaughter Solution, a procedural manuever that House Democrats are considering in hopes...
From: Reason | By: Peter Suderman | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Fox Gives Democrats Value from a Web Video
Fox's legal complaint over a Rubio-back-wax parody video only gives Democrats what they want...
From: The Atlantic | By: Chris Good | Friday, March 12, 2010
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After 'Citizens United,' Companies Hold Off on Political ...
After the Supreme Court ruled that companies can spend freely on political advertising campaigns, good-government advocates, liberal commentators and even the president warned that a flood of corporate money would overwhelm elections and subvert democracy....
From: Law.com | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Letters: California, Pop-Up Ads
Listeners respond to the interview with the California lawmaker on the state's practice to destroy most parole files a year after the end of the criminal's parole; and the commentary on Internet pop-up ads. Michele Norris and Robert Siegel read from...
From: NPR | Friday, March 12, 2010
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The PhilmGuy Reviews: ‘Our Family Wedding’
There is so much potential for disaster in Our Family Wedding that you feel like you could light a match and the whole thing would blow up. For starters, the concept is a reworking of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner as a comedy. The last movie to try...
From: OK Magazine | By: Phil Villarreal | Friday, March 12, 2010
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At the Grafitti Bridge Nightclub...
... you can write whatever you want.blog advertising blog advertising...
From: Ann Althouse | By: Ann Althouse | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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'30 Rock': Liz meets her future husband (we hope)
It’s been a long “30 Rock”-free month (thanks a lot, you selfish Olympians!) ,so I'm going to start out by saying something bold: I’d like to see Liz Lemon maintain an adult relationship. It’s a controversial desire, but it probably...
From: Los Angeles Times | By: Meredith Blake | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Family Dating - Is finding the right friends with kids ...
tweetmeme_source = 'babbleeditors'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; Kate Haney recently met someone special. They hit it off at the playground and exchanged e-mail addresses. “I thought it went fine,” said Haney, 46, a mother of a five-year-old son...
From: Babble | By: Babble | Friday, March 12, 2010
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SXSW: Location, location, location!
Location-based services come to SXSW.
From: Los Angeles Times | By: Alex Pham | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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iPads are now officially for pre-sale: Are you a proud ...
It’s 8:30 a.m. this Friday morning, PopWatchers: Do you know where your credit card information is? I ask, simply and importantly, because now is the exact time that Apple’s iPad officially goes on presale at the Apple store, which had been suspiciously...
From: Entertainment Weekly | By: Tanner Stransky | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Lawsuit of the Day: Former Model Doesn't Want to be Lusted ...
A former swimsuit model is offended at the suggestion that men would use her photograph as masturbatory material. And now she's filing a $10 million lawsuit against NBC Universal for "great humiliation, embarrassment, emotional distress, shame, mortification...
From: Above the Law | By: Kashmir Hill | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Wedding Balloons?
The other day I emailed Mr. Doxie and casually mentioned that it might look nice to use balloons as ceremony decoration. He couldn’t picture what I was talking about, so I responded with this photo so that he could get…
From: Wedding Bee | By: Miss Dachshund | Friday, March 12, 2010
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DenverPost.com teams up with Metrolist
DenverPost.com and Metrolist are teaming up to give real estate agents, home buyers and sellers a comprehensive source for home listings in Colorado. DenverPost.com will feature home listings from Metrolist, which offers more than 18,000 listings. Along...
From: Denver Post | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Child Aisle Style
As far as the flower girls and ring bearers (3 of each!) go, I’m not particularly picky as to what they wear down the aisle. I told all the mommies and daddies to just pick something something cute and comfortable…
From: Wedding Bee | By: Miss Hot Dog | Friday, March 12, 2010
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What to Do with Our Paper Lanterns?
So, back when Mr. Argyle and I were trying to figure out what we were going to do for our centerpieces (see: no flowers), we couldn’t agree on a design. I had this brilliant idea to use lanterns. He agreed (Yes!).…
From: Wedding Bee | By: Miss Argyle | Friday, March 12, 2010
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SEC Watch: Top NYTCo Execs' Wages Soar
While the NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) struggled under the weight of economic pressures and debt last year, top execs personally did pretty well, even as the company reduced its newsroom by 100 staffers. As the company’s recent Q4 results showed, cost-cutting...
From: PaidContent | By: David Kaplan | Friday, March 12, 2010
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What Your Favorite Website Says About You
We spend most of our day on the internet, and we have a few favorite sites that we frequent more often than others.  Your favorite internet site says a lot about who you are as a person, but sometimes the message you think it's sending is not always...
From: Holy Taco | By: justin | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Why Is Too Much ...
Living in these United States, there comes a point at which you throw your hands up in exasperation and despair and ask a fundamental question: how much excess profit does corporate America really need?
From: Huffington Post | By: Bill Moyers | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Never Trust a Naked Massa in a Tickle ...
The Republicans' embrace of Massa is a prime example of Obama Derangement Syndrome, which expresses itself in hating anything that the president likes, even if you once loved it, like a bipartisan commission on the deficit.
From: Huffington Post | By: Margaret Carlson | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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