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Study: Fat People eat more food at all-you-can-eat buffets 
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
In the stating the extremely obvious in research category, scientists have published a study on the correlation between fat people, fast food and obesity.
The first result:
At an all-you-can-eat buffet, heavier people are more lik
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SITE NEWS: Guess what? Automated news doesn't quite work.
(unknown author) via Techmeme on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Any competent developer who tries to automate the selection of news headlines
will inevitably discover that this approach always comes up a bit short.
Automation does indeed bring a lot to the table --
humans can't possibly discover and organize news as fast as computers can.
But too often the lack of real intelligence leads to really unintelligent results.
Only an algorithm would feature news
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Why there's no money in being a Web celebrity [Internet Famous]
Owen Thomas via Valleywag on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
We like to watch people trying to be famous. And we're so desperate for a shred of authenticity that we'll watch just about anyone doing anything, as long as it's live and on the Internet. Hence the lifecasting phenomenon. Lifecasting's the extreme sport of over
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Will OpenID Lose to Facebook Connect?
Nick O'Neill via The Social Times on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
It was an inevitable that a company would come along an release a standard for single sign on that had the financial backing to go build strong partnerships and more importantly, mainstream buzz. Yesterday Caroline McCarthy
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100+ iPhone Games That Use the Accelerometer
Amanda MacArthur via Mashable! on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
The iPhone’s built-in accelerometer has opened up a new world of mobile gaming, introducing fun, engaging, and interactive applications from virtual golf to racing games, mobile beer pong, and more.
Here are
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CBS Is Quietly Building An Internet Radio Powerhouse
Fred via A VC on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
I've had a ringside seat for a number of reasons and it's been fun to watch the team at CBS Radio quietly putting together a streaming audio powerhouse. Earlier this year, CBS acquired the rights to operate AOL Radio and yesterday they announced that they had done the same with Yahoo!'s in
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Facebook Updates Public Profiles
Nick O'Neill via All Facebook on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Facebook has revamped the public profiles for users and their are some noticeable changes. First of all, Facebook has increased the number of visible friends for an individual from 5 to 7. Even more significant is the increase in the number of visible fan pages, from 5
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GradeFund Offers a Different Way to Pay for College: Good Grades
Adam Ostrow via Mashable! on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Paying for college is expensive. GradeFund, a startup founded by a couple of brothers from Harvard and Princeton, has an interesting new approach to covering at least some of the costs: rewarding students monetarily for making good grades.
GradeFund isn’t
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Google reveals Chrome extensions plan
Stephen Shankland via Webware.com on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Google has published its plan to build into Chrome what is arguably its most requested feature: the ability to accept extensions that can customize how the open-source Web browser operates.
And guess what? Google's dependence on advertising
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Chase Hooters girls in Santa Hats only in Atlantic City
(unknown author) via The Inquisitr on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Shared by Adam Ostrow
this reeks of Trump ... all class
Casinos in Atlantic City are responding to difficult economic times with a range of unique promotions aimed at getting customers through the door.
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Turns Out There's Lottttttttssss Of Money To Be Made In T-Shirts
Michael Masnick via Techdirt on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
We've pointed out in the past that folks who don't want to understand the economics of scarce and infinite goods often falsely claim that the business model we suggest is all about selling lots of t-shirts. Or, more specifically, when they comment in a mock
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Why I switched from Firefox to Chrome | Webware - CNET
(unknown author) via news.cnet.com on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
I didn't set out to switch. But while using Chrome, it felt as if some friction had been removed from the Web. Now it's my default, despite its shortcomings. Read this blog post by Stephen Shankland on Webware.
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Developer Rebuilds Twitter in a Week
Adam DuVander via Wired: Compiler on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
“Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make Twitter better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster.”
That’s the speech I imagine Niall Kennedy giving himself recently when he decided to rewrite Twitter’s front end using web best practices. The result is a
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Playing Chicken with Citigroup
Roger Ehrenberg via Information Arbitrage on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
What does "too big to fail" mean anymore? Bailing out equity-holders? Debt-holders? Depositors? Entrenched managements? Sovereign wealth funds and other large offshore investors? We need to define our terms and our goals and we need to get it right. And one of the most stunning case studies for what this means in a post-AIG bailout world may well be Citigroup.Citigroup touches every part
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His Tweets Are Shaqalicious
Biz via Twitter Blog on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
It's official: Shaq is on Twitter. Today's
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Full-feed RSS is a jewel that media companies refuse to explore
Terry via Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
The UK’s The Guardian shocked many people two weeks ago when it became the first major newspaper in the world to offer full text RSS feeds, something I’ve been wondering
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SimCity for the iPhone may ruin my life (in a good way)
(unknown author) via VentureBeat on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
Shared by Adam Ostrow
definitely spend the better part of 1-2 of my teenage years playing this game
No game captured my imagination when I was growing
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Am I A Google Reader Over-Sharer? Are You?
Sarah Perez via sarahintampa on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
I’ve been taking a closer look at my Google Reader feeds lately,
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Hulu for the Holidays: Rudy
(unknown author) via Hulu Blog - Home on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
Shared by Adam Ostrow
one of my favorite movies ... awesome
The first movie of Hulu for the Holidays is a family-friendly film about a boy with a lifelong dream: to play football for Notre Dame. And once Daniel Ruettiger, better known as "Rudy," set his mind to this mission, nothing could get in his way: Not a do
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