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03 Sep 2010 10:06

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Offbeat: Posted without comment: The world’s oldest bottle of beer

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03 Sep 2010 09:52

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Biz: Jobs grew, but the unemployment rate still rose

  • 9.6% the latest unemployment rate, which is an uptick source
  • Why the increase? Inter­est­ing reasons, actually; appar­ently, private-sector jobs actually increased. Unfor­tu­nately, govern­ment jobs contin­ued to disappear.
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03 Sep 2010 09:43

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Tech: TechCrunch relives the early Twttr days with an old-school logo

  • There has to be a good story behind this decision. TechCrunch redid its logo today, but they redid it to look exactly like Twitter’s origi­nal logo, launched way back in 2006. Arring­ton posted an article noting how he was sort of wrong about how Twitter’s success would play out, and it’s a bit hilar­i­ous to see how off-base some of the commenters were. Blast from the past, indeed. source
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02 Sep 2010 22:39

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Culture: Stunt-casting or brilliance? Harvey Keitel could be new “Office” boss

  • I haven’t started any talks with his people, but Harvey would do a great job — a very differ­ent energy. And we don’t want to bring in another Michael, having someone play a very similar charac­ter because we have such a high regard for Steve.
  • Paul “Toby” Lieber­stein • Suggest­ing an utterly bizarre replace­ment for Steve Carell on “The Office,” but one that might prove an inter­est­ing choice and could ensure the series remains really inter­est­ing in the future. Keitel, best-known as “Mr. White” from “Reserv­ior Dogs,” hasn’t been approached yet about Lieberstein’s wild casting idea. Minor detail. He’ll take the part. source
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02 Sep 2010 22:20

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Chatter: Smokin’: California gets its first medical marijuana TV ad

  • Wonder what they’re smoking. Wanna know the proof that cannabis is about to become legal in Califor­nia? Because now medical marijuana shops are blatantly adver­tis­ing their wares. It’s official: The tide has turned in their favor. Cheech and Chong are winning. source
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02 Sep 2010 21:41

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Offbeat: A note to readers: Would you like to see another Catstravaganza?

  • What is Catstrav­a­ganza? To our readers who have only been reading the site for a year or so, we had a sort of fake battle with Urlesque, which ran “A Day Without Cats,” a day where no cats would prowl the inter­web. We responded by turning the site into a mecca of catdom, complete with reader submissions.

    Our question for youDo you want to see another Catstrav­a­ganza, or would you prefer to get more short, sweet news? Acutally, you’ll get news either way. But there’ll be more cats hanging around on 09/09/10 than usual. Most of them will be strays, though if we find any with tags, we’ll do our best to return them to their right­ful owners. And trust us; your aller­gies won’t kick in.

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02 Sep 2010 21:21

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Tech: Copyright owners use YouTube ads as a backdoor into ¢A$H

  • 2 billion views of YouTube videos with ads every single week
  • 14% the percentage of total weekly views on YouTube each week ad-supported videos make up – a small chunk, but definitely still a lot
  • 33% of those videos (or more) are clips which are copyright violations that the owners have chosen to make money from source
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02 Sep 2010 21:07

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U.S.: Hurricane Earl weakening, but still has some punch

  • good Hurri­cane Earl is slowly but surely weaken­ing as it moves up the East Coast this weekend.
  • bad The storm will still be a fairly power­ful Category 2 as it hits North Carolina tonight. source
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02 Sep 2010 21:00

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Tech: Consumer watchdog group to Google CEO: Don’t be creepy

  • Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said some pretty weird crap lately. He thinks you should be able to change your name as an adult. He suggests that you shouldn’t say certain things online if you don’t want them to get out there. And it’s got consumer groups pretty concerned. We don’t think Schmidt is anything other than a weird dude, but this clip makes him look like the second incar­na­tion of Chucky from “Child’s Play.” Is it really this bad? Really? source
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02 Sep 2010 20:46

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Chatter: Craigslist dude Craig Newmark incredibly pissed CNN ambushed him

  • If Amber had done her homework, she would have known ambush­ing me with questions I am not quali­fied to answer, or even the right person to ask, would not get CNN’s viewers the accurate infor­ma­tion they deserve.
  • Craigslist founder Craig Newmark • Regard­ing getting ambushed about his service by CNN reporter Amber Lyon for a report about sex traffick­ing, and then folding under pressure. Newmark’s silence in the report, which ran a month ago, was deafen­ing, without any fair expla­na­tion why he might strug­gle answer­ing these questions. Simple answer: Uh, he’s not the CEO and works a menial customer service job with his own service. This is inten­tional, because he’s a terri­ble manager. Good thing, as a writer, he does a very good job explain­ing himself and why Lyon’s attack was all wrong. Do your homework before you ambush. source
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