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When the Ex Blogs, the Dirtiest Laundry Is Aired

Posted by Shemuses from New York Times

Until the morning her husband, David Sals, told her he "was done" with their marriage, Jennifer Neal had portrayed him so lovingly on her blog that he was called DearSweetDave. By the afternoon of that October day last year, Ms. Neal had shared what she portrayed as his perfidy with the 55,000 regular readers she says visit NakedJencom. Soon after, readers came to know him by a far less flattering name, and as the guy whose insensitivity made Jen so sick that she was throwing up every day and so poor that she lost her house in Santa Cruz, Calif.

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The Raging Grannies Greet the F.C.C.

Posted by Shemuses from Bits.blogs.nytimes

At Stanford a parade of witnesses challenged the efforts of the giant Internet service providers to control and, in some cases, block the data traffic that flows over their networks. The panel was enlivened by an advocacy group called the "Raging Grannies," who stood outside before the hearing began and sang songs condemning Comcast's pricing and other practices.

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Skewz.com Founder Vipul Vyas Answers Your Questions About Media Bias

Posted by Jeff

You asked questions about Skewz.com on April 2nd and April 3rd. Here are your answers. This media bias stuff is tricky to deal with. Both Skewz and Microsoft's Blewz are trying, anyway. Skewz people say they want to jump into the conversation attached to this post, so if you have any follow-up questions please feel free to ask them.

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Robots: Combat Robot Attempts Rebellion Against Human Masters in Iraq, Army Pulls Plug for 10-20 Yea

Posted by Jeff from Gizmodo

Apparently, there was an incident where "the gun started moving when it was not intended to move," meaning it totally pointed somewhere it wasn't supposed to-like at friendlies, which resulted in recall from the field and might've set the program back 10-20 years, according to the Army's Program Executive Officer for Ground Forces, Kevin Fahey.

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'Throttling' Net Traffic

Posted by Shemuses from The Tyee

Who does it. Why free speechers are fighting it.

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Google Previews App Engine

Posted by Jeff

Google launches hosted app engine framework. Like Amazon S3 but more integrated into Google's services. Like the Windows API, but for the 21st century. I think Microsoft just lost the battle for the Web platform.

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New Enzyme Promises to Reduce Ethanol Costs

Posted by paneuropeanyank

University of Maryland research that started with bacteria from the Chesapeake Bay has led to a process that may be able to convert large volumes of all kinds of plant products, from leftover brewer's mash to paper trash, into ethanol and other biofuel alternatives to gasoline.

The secret to the process is a Chesapeake Bay marsh grass bacterium, S. degradans. Researchers found that the bacterium has an enzyme that could quickly break down plant materials into sugar, which can then be converted to biofuel.

Theresearchers were unable to isolate the Bay bacterium again in nature, but they discovered how to produce the enzyme in their own laboratories.

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