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AP calls it: Chambliss re-elected 
Alex Koppelman via Salon: War Room on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Left, Saxby Chambliss, right, Jim Martin.
At about 9 p.m. EST Tuesday night, two hours after polls closed, the Associated Press called the run-off election between incumbent Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss and Democratic challenger Jim Marti
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Windows 7 will sport a DX10 "software GPU"
jon@arstechnica.com (Jon Stoke via Ars Technica on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Microsoft has spilled the beans on WARP10, a technology slated for Windows 7 that will bring DirectX 10 capabilities to systems that don't even have GPUs. Read More...
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Acorns Disappear Across the Country
(unknown author) via Slashdot on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
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come to think of it.. by this time of the year i should have freaked out at least once or twice thinking people are knocking on my door due to all the acorns slamming down... and instead there are ZERO in our outside stairwell (which collects these types of things)
Hugh Pickens writes "Botanist Rod Simmons thought he was going crazy when couldn't fin
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Gladinet Mounts Web Storage Apps as Virtual Drives [Featured Windows Download]
Kevin Purdy via Lifehacker on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Windows only: Free utility Gladinet Cloud Desktop removes the web interfaces from Google Docs, Picasa Web Albums, Windows Live SkyDrive and Amazon S3 Storage, mounting them instead as folders you can add, remove, or open documents from. Gladinet hides most
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Police raid 79-year-old woman for pot, find tomato plants
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Police officers in Scotland were disappointed to learn that the people they intended to arrest for growing marijuana were growing an equally innocuous, but unfortunately legal, plant -- tomatoes.
Uniformed officers burst into Lulu Matheson's house in the village of Shieldaig, Wester Ross, kept her son Gus in his bedroom for two hours, handcuffed her grandson Stephen, and turned the h
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Concept: the iPod shuffle bracelet
Mike Schramm via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (T on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Audio, Odds and ends, Apple, ipod shuffle
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Google Groups
Erica Sadun via ericasadun.com on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
I am moving the iPhone SDK mailing list over to Google Groups. Bluehost says they cannot handle a list of this size; Google Groups can. Of course, inviting 1200 people at once raised spam flags, so we have to wait for Google to approve the new group and the invites before we can move forward. The new group is here.
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Diet of Fast Food and Candy May Cause Alzheimer's
(unknown author) via Slashdot on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
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JUst like with cancer, I think we'll find a majority of these kinds of diseases are caused by our own bad habits (directly or from the bad behavior of others, e.g. pollution).
lurking_giant sends along a Reuters report on research out of Sweden indicating that a diet rich in fat, sugar, and cholesterol could increase the risk of Alzheimer's, at least
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The ongoing disgrace of NBC News and Brian Williams
Glenn Greenwald via Salon: Glenn Greenwald on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
(updated below - Update II)
The New York Times's David Barstow, whose excellent and aggressive journalism led to the uncovering last April of the Pentagon's domestic propaganda program involving network "military analysts," today returns to this topic with
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Nerf factory riot in China
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
Riots are breaking out in factories in Dongguan as bankruptcies and layoffs throw thousands out of work with wages owing. South China, "the world's factory," is in chaos, faltering. After the mid-autumn festival, enormous numbers of workers simply stayed home in the provinces, rather than returning to work in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Dongguan.
This AP story talks about a riot in the factory w
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Scoop Syncs Google Reader to Your Desktop [Featured Download]
Jason Fitzpatrick via Lifehacker on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
Adobe Air: Sure you can export your RSS feeds from Google Reader and import the feed file into desktop RSS reader for offline browsing. Scoop takes offline browsing a step further by allowing you to not only read your fe
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Lala's Potential iPhone App
Paul Kafasis via Inside iPhone on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
Yesterday I posted about Lala.com over on the Rogue Amoeba weblog. You can read the full article, but in short, I discussed the very cool Lala.com music service, which offers several advantages over the iTunes Store. I'd certainly encourage you to check out Lala.com if you're interested in online mus
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Profiles in punditry, Peggy Noonan
kos via Daily Kos on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
I love coming across great punditry like this, from Peggy Noonan in February 2006: Conservatives are always writing about the strains and stresses within the Republican Party, and they are real. But the Democratic Party seems to be near imploding, and for that most humiliating of reasons: its meani
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Mull Your Beer to Ward Off Holiday Chills [How To]
Jason Fitzpatrick via Lifehacker on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
You may have tasted mulled wine before, especially around winter holidays, but if you're an American reader you've most likely never drank anything but ice cold beer. For the better part of history people drank beer at ambient temperatures, and fr
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Report: Murdoch ‘absolutely despises’ Bill O’Reilly; Ailes ‘loathes him.’
Faiz Shakir via Think Progress on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
In a forthcoming biography of Rupert Murdoch entitled “The Man Who Owns The News,” author Michael Wolff reports that the Fox News bosses have no fondness for Bill O’Reilly but are willing to tolerate him for his ratings:
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Boob Job piggybank sold as girl's room decor
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
How to be a terrible parent: buy your daughter one of these "boob job" piggybanks, sold on a site specializing in girls' room decor. Stuff like this makes me want to smack someone.
TEACHING FISCAL DISCIPLINE
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Another reason Obama beat Clinton
kos via Daily Kos on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
Obama's team wasn't obsessed with Drudge. By the end of the campaign, I was seeing the Drudge siren in my sleep. As people in politics know all too well, Matt Drudge, the Internet provocateur who runs the Drudge Report Web site, posts a flashing siren whenever he wants to alert readers
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Scientists Identify a Potentially Universal Mechanism of Aging
Soulskill via Slashdot on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
cybergenesis2008 points us to a summary of research out of Harvard Medical School in which a set of genes known to affect aging in yeast was found to affect aging in mice as well. The genes, called sirtuins, perform two particular tasks; regulating which genes are "on" and "off," and also helping to repair damaged DNA. As an organism ages, the frequency of damage to DNA increases, leaving less tim
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Rock musicians of the 70s at home with parents
David Pescovitz via Boing Boing on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Apartment Therapy found a fantastic LIFE magazine photo series from the 1970s of rock stars at home with their folks. Above is Frank Zappa. Also included are the likes of David Crosby, Grace Slick, Donovan, J
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