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29 Jul 2010 11:10

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Chatter: Great: Buses in big cities plastered with debate over Islam

The ad on this bus, from Stop Islamization of America, is anti-Islamic. It’s a response to a pro-Islam ad. Both ads have been showing up in cities across the country. source
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29 Jul 2010 11:03

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Biz: Unemployment: Jobless claims numbers improving very, very slowly

  • 11,000 fewer new jobless claims last week than the week before
  • 468,000 the number of new jobless claims last week source
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29 Jul 2010 10:55

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World: French woman reportedly chose murder over contraceptives

  • what A French woman, Dominique Cot­trez, admit­ted to hid­ing eight preg­nan­cies over a 17-year period and killing the babies after they were born.
  • why She report­edly didn’t want to have more chil­dren, but didn’t want to use con­tra­cep­tives. Her weight allowed her to hide the preg­nan­cies. source
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29 Jul 2010 10:27

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Chatter: House ethics: Charlie Rangel has all the spotlight on him today

Last chance, buddy. You gonna let this ethics trial happen today, or are you going to turn this into a Blago-style circus? source
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29 Jul 2010 09:14

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U.S.: Scary: A woman recalls how she survived a Montana bear attack

  • Within hun­dredths of sec­onds, I felt the teeth in my arm, heard bones break­ing. I screamed and that seemed to aggra­vate him. He sunk his teeth into me again. So I decided to play dead and mean it.
  • Lon­don, Ontario res­i­dent Deb Freele • Describ­ing her ini­tial reac­tion to wak­ing up in a Mon­tana camp­ground to a bear chew­ing on her arm. The play­ing dead trick worked, because she sur­vived, along with another man. Another man at Soda Butte, a pop­u­lar camp­ground near Yel­low­stone National Park, wasn’t so lucky. It was the first fatal bear attack in Mon­tana since 2001. source
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29 Jul 2010 09:00

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Chatter: Why immigration has been fruitful for Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer

  • 66% of Arizonans support the measure that got cut back yesterday
  • 53% of Arizonans suport her for reelection, according to a recent poll
  • 35% of Arizonans support opponent Terry Goddard instead source
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29 Jul 2010 08:50

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Tech: Some dude grabbed everyone’s Facebook data, put it on The Pirate Bay

  • 100 million poor Facebook users' details scraped source
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28 Jul 2010 23:05

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Tech: Jeff Bezos: Screw competing with the iPad, Kindle does it right

  • For the vast major­ity of books, adding video and ani­ma­tion is not going to be help­ful. It is dis­tract­ing rather than enhanc­ing. You are not going to improve Hem­ing­way by adding video snippets.
  • Ama­zon founder Jeff Bezos • Explain­ing why the new ver­sion of the Kin­dle basi­cally looks like a slicker, cheaper ver­sion of the last Kin­dle. That’s right, no color. No dis­play prowess. Just a sleeker ver­sion of the wheel. Any­way, $139 for a wi-fi only ver­sion? Sounds like someone’s try­ing to court the very mass mar­ket the device wasn’t priced for in its first two iter­a­tions. source
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28 Jul 2010 22:42

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U.S.: Arnold Schwarzenegger terminates hope of farm worker overtime

  • cause California’s leg­is­la­ture passed a bill giv­ing farm work­ers the same right to an 40-hour work­week as every­one else. It would’ve been the first of its kind in the nation.
  • reac­tion Ah-nold vetoed it, say­ing that the rules don’t really work for farm­ing – some­thing, sur­pris­ingly, both organic farm­ers and big agri­cul­ture cor­po­ra­tions agree on. source
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28 Jul 2010 22:30

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Culture: Are receipts toxic? Might want to check their BPA levels

BPA (or Bisphenol A), a known toxin that’s common in plastics, was found in most receipts tested in a study by the Environmental Working Group. source
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