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  • How Rachel Maddow became a star

    Raw Story
    "Can you believe that sellout, Barack Obama?" says Rachel Maddow, looking around the room. "Let's hit him from the left!"...

  • Bush, Medvedev discuss Iran

    Raw Story
    LIMA (AFP) — US President George W. Bush and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed Saturday on the need for their countries to keep cooperating on Iran after Barack Obama takes office, the White House said...

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  • Zogby poll on Obama backers was a joke

    Raw Story
    That poll created by wingnut John Ziegler purporting to demonstrate that Obama voters were misinformed by the mainstream media about Barack Obama and Joe Biden (and defended so scatalogically by Ziegler) has been examined by objective polling experts beyond Nate Silver now, and the verdict is unani...

  • Popular radio host has drug co. ties

    Raw Story
    An influential psychiatrist who served as the host of public radio’s popular “The Infinite Mind” program earned at least $1.3 million between 2000 and 2007 giving marketing lectures for drug makers, income not mentioned on the program. The psychiatrist and radio host, Dr. Frederick K. Goodwi...

Seattle »

  • 'John Doe' sentenced to 30 months for ID theft

    Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local
    A Seattle man who stole and used the identities of more than 20 people, many of whom were dead and whose own identity had been a mystery was sentenced Friday to 30 months in prison in U.S. District Court in Seattle.

  • Arrest in case of man set on fire

    Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local
    SEATTLE -- Sheriff's deputies in Grays Harbor County have arrested a man described as a "person of interest" in the beating and burning of an Aberdeen resident this week.

  • Nickels expects December start to city gun ban

    Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local
    Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels expects to introduce a city rule change in December that would ban all guns from city buildings and parks, despite objections from state officials and gun-rights advocates.


Darfur »

  • Simon Calder: Cuba as risky as Darfur? Don't make me laugh

    Independent UK

    Travel, like life in general, requires judicious risk management, ranging from "Am I a strong enough swimmer to cope with those currents?" and "Should I really have that extra drink?" to "What countries are too dangerous to contemplate?"

  • Hague Warrants for Darfur Rebels

    NYT International
    The International Criminal Court prosecutor requested arrest warrants for Darfur rebels for the first time, accusing them of killing 12 peacekeepers last year.

  • ICC seeks rebel arrests in Darfur

    BBC World News
    The International Criminal Court prosecutor seeks the arrest of Darfur rebel commanders for killing peacekeepers.

Global Warming »

Iraq »

  • Damascus says US killed eight in raid

    FT
    Relations between Washington and Damascus appeared to plunge to a new low after Syria said the US had killed eight civilians in a helicopter raid on the Syrian side of Iraq's border in what Baghdad described as attack on insurgents

Open Society »

  • Manage your music with ID3 tag editors

    Digg
    The Linux desktop comes with a variety of multimedia players, such as Xine, MPlayer, and Amarok. Yet all digital media players are only as good as the files they have to work with, and preparing those files requires the best tag editor you can find. Check out these popular and stable tag editors. <...

  • Silverlight ready to Moonlight on Linux

    Digg
    Microsoft and Novell said Tuesday they are nearly ready with a beta version of Moonlight - a Firefox add-on that allows Silverlight content to play on Linux PCs.

  • Linux Guru Reiser Seeks New Murder Trial

    Digg
    Reiser is the Linux guru who in April was convicted of the first-degree murder of his estranged wife. He's the same defendant who, in exchange for a 15-to-life term instead of a 25-to-life term, brought authorities to the Oakland hills where he buried Nina Reiser's body.

Two Americas »

  • Calif. unemployment grows to 8.2 pct.

    Raw Story
    California's economic climate continues to deteriorate as the unemployment rate in the state jumped another one-half of a percentage point to 8.2 percent in October, according to the state's unemployment division.


Latest stories from readers »

    • Facebook Getting Serious About Classifieds; May Relaunch This Year

      Posted by Jeff from Feedproxy.google

      Here’s a rumor that won’t go away - Facebook has been quietly searching for a partner to take over their year and a half old classified listings application, and may relaunch as early as the end of December.

      According to our sources, Facebook distributed a request-for-proposal to a number of classified sites earlier this year (the same model they are using for Facebook Music).

      The obvious partner is Oodle, which began powering Walmart Classifieds earlier this year. We’ve heard thin reports that they in fact have won the contract.

      Whoever powers Facebook Classifieds (or Facebook Marketplace, as they call it) has a big hill to climb. Competing with Ebay (and their Kijiji) and Craigslist isn’t trivial. The original thought was that social networks were great for classifieds because you the buyers and sellers know each other. But Facebook’s current classifieds system shows anemic listings. The Silicon Valley network, for example, had a total of ten new listings added yesterday. San Francisco had twenty. New York City - zero. And for those who’ve forgotten, Microsoft launched their own classifieds site based on MSN friends and private networks (like businesses), and it went nowhere.

      Part of the problem is the limited functionality of the existing classifieds system, which allows a short listing, a picture and communication via Facebook’s messaging system. Better software may mean more listings (although the bare-bones and massive Craigslist is a clear exception to that rule). Oodle, or whoever wins the contract, may also bring lots of listings from their other networks.

      If Facebook gets this right there is a potential for lucrative advertising dollars - people looking to buy stuff are easy targets.

      Crunch Network: CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors

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    • My Father Gave My Mother AIDS

      Posted by robynoratocom

      Mom had a headache that wasn't going away. In fact, it was getting worse. Mom never complained about anything, ever. Maybe that's why my parents got along so well. But now she began to cry about her head hurting and aspirins not helping. Dad took mom to the doctor, who said, "Just a headache. Go home and ride it out."

      They were obedient patients that trusted doctors... until mom's headache got so bad she couldn't talk or walk. Rushing mother to the emergency room, dad demanded some test that revealed a brain tumor known as a glioblastoma. Two weeks after the surgery dad told all of us to pray for mom.

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      Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing

      Posted by Jeff from New York Times

      "It may look as though kids are wasting a lot of time hanging out with new media, whether it's on MySpace or sending instant messages," said Mizuko Ito, lead researcher on the study, "Living and Learning With New Media." "But their participation is giving them the technological skills and literacy they need to succeed in the contemporary world. They're learning how to get along with others, how to manage a public identity, how to create a home page."

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    • World Leaders Don't Shake Bush's Hand At G20 Summit (VIDEO)

      Posted by Jeff from Huffington Post

      It appears in this video that President Bush's approval is in a sorrier state than polls indicate. In a video taken at the G20 summit, Bush walks across a line of world leaders without shaking or being asked to shake any of their hands. Whether the President is being rejected by the world leaders or he is rejecting them, CNN's Rick Sanchez aptly says that Bush looks like "the most unpopular kid in high school that nobody liked."

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    • Bipartisan group works to revive auto bailout

      Posted by oneohone from Yahoo News!

      A bipartisan group of auto-state senators reached a last-ditch compromise Thursday to throw Detroit's Big Three a government lifeline worth billions, but the plan faces an uphill battle in a reluctant Senate.

      With the auto bailout stalled, the fate of hundreds of thousands of workers and Detroit's once-venerable car companies hangs in the balance.

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    • 10 Things to Know About Salesforce.com

      Posted by Jon from Feedproxy.google

      Nice write up by Bernard. I ran into Marshall Kirkpatrick of RRW on the streets of San Fran during Dreamforce. I look forward to meeting Bernard and chatting about Salesforce.com. RRW is a user as well. These are reflections from having spent a few days at the annual Salesforce.com event, Dreamforce. We hope they are valuable to people who need ...

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    • NAB Turns to Gas Pumps for DTV Education

      Posted by adossantos

      The gas pump campaign is one element of a massive consumer education campaign valued at more than $1 billion. The National Association of Broadcasters turned to an emerging out-of-home ad platform to remind consumers about the pending transition to digital TV: the gas pump. In mid-November, an NAB spot began airing on PumpTop TV's network across screens installed at 720 gas stations in 11 top markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas-Ft. Worth, San Francisco, Boston, Houston, Phoenix, Sacramento and San Diego. A Spanish-language version of the spot is running at selected gas stations in California, Arizona and Texas

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    • A toke a day keeps memory loss at bay

      Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail

      Small doses of marijuana improve the function of aging brains, scientists find. Turns out a few dances with Mary Jane can do wonders for an aging brain. Yes, a daily toke in later-middle and old age can help slow memory loss, or the onset of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis, a new study suggests. It's a pre-emptive strike, one not effective at reversing previous memory loss. But aging boomers still shouldn't go overboard, researchers say. In tests on lab rats, all it took was the equivalent of one human puff.

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