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Gallup poll gives Obama some good news on Inquiry Commission
terrorism issue liveblog
By Reuters Staff (Front Row
By David Morgan (Front Row 46 percent. That three-point gap (40 percent) and healthcare (37 Washington)
Washington) is well within the Jan. 8-10 percent). The president is usually
Submitted at 1/13/2010 5:42:13 AM
Submitted at 1/13/2010 7:23:42 AM
survey’s 4 percentage point stronger on domestic issues than
sampling error. Approval is also he is on the international front. Reuters liveblog of Bank CEOs
President Barack Obama’s way down from May, when 55 But Gallup called his testimony before the
approval ratings may have percent of Americans endorsed current ratings on the economy Congressional Financial Crisis
slipped in some polling data. But his handling of terrorism. and healthcare the lowest of his Inquiry Commission which is
there’s a tiny bit of good news But the latest numbers are up presidency to date. Those issues investigating the roots of the
for him on an issue that his from the days before Umar tend to have a more direct impact financial meltdown.
Republican critics have been Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly on the lives of Americans than
whacking away at for weeks tried to blow up a Detroit-bound national security and could
now: terrorism. Northwest Airlines flight. Back be most important to voters come The Audi A8 Google
A USA Today/Gallup poll says then, only 45 percent of the November.
public approval for Obama’s public approved of Obama on
— including a review of the
incident and the government’s Last time, 44 percent of the U.S.
Earth integration
handling of terrorism has risen terrorism, vs. 47 percent who inability to prevent it, and the public approved of Obama on gets a video demo
since the Christmas Day bomb disapproved. outlining of new steps designed the economy while 40 percent By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
attempt, with more Americans That’s interesting because to prevent a similar occurrence supported him on healthcare.
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handling the terrorism issue,” Airport); Reuters/Larry Downing
The numbers still aren’t great making voters think the president had a line to sit in it yesterday
Gallup said. (Unemployed workers in
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However, the poll has some not- Virginia)
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Presidential choices: Avatar and
“resisting pie”
By Tabassum Zakaria (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 11:25:14 AM
President Barack Obama’s
favorite movie is the
blockbuster“Avatar” and he also
likes“Away We Go.”
And while first lady Michelle
Obama is able to keep her iPod
current with music from
Grammy nominee Ledisi, the
president has found it difficult to
keep his selections updated.
“My iPod is kind of stuck. I just
haven’t had time to sit down at a
computer,” Barack Obama says
in an interview with People
magazine about the First
Couple’s first year that will
appear in the Jan. 25 issue.
“And there’s nobody that can do
that for you, sir?” the magazine
asked.
To which Obama replied that he
could ask his aide Reggie Love
to update his iPod tunes, but that
request would come with another
Beta-testing the video ad-
supported Free All Music
By Matt Rosoff
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:36:00 PM
Free All Music began a private
beta test this week, and I'm
set of issues.
“You know, there’s Reggie
Love, but then all I get is Jay-Z,
and I love Jay-Z, but once in a
while I might want some Yo-Yo
Ma or something.”
Obama says he still hasn’t fully
adjusted, and hopes he never
does, to life in a bubble. “Day-to
-day spontaneous interactions are
missing from my life.”
satisfied with the value
proposition, as the ad-viewing
and MP3-downloading process is
surprisingly painless.
Originally posted at Digital
Noise: Music and Tech
And on a personal level, what
does the president want to be
better at this year?
“Resisting pie.”
For more Reuters political news,
click here
Photo credit: Reuters/Mario
Anzuoni (Cast member Zoe
Saldana poses at premier of
“Avatar”)
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Will Google stand up to France and Italy, too? | Rebecca
MacKinnon
By Rebecca MacKinnon
(World news and comment
from the Guardian |
guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:30:01 PM
The stand against China will
rightly be lauded. But western
states also imperil internet
freedom
Google's stand against Chinese
censorship and surveillance –
triggered by suspicions that
China had been trying to hack
activists' -accounts – will be
rightly lauded by defenders of
human rights. But when it comes
to upholding Google's vow not to
"do evil" by its -users, China is
by no means the company's only
headache. Before those of us in
western democracies get too high
on our horses about Google and
China, we should remember that
the Chinese are not the only ones
putting pressure on Google in
ways that are arguably harmful
to freedom of expression, even
when intentions are honorable. A
growing number of governments
– many democratically elected –
share an attitude that internet
companies should be expected to
act as "net nannies" for their
citizens.
In the past several years, internet
censorship has spread rapidly
throughout a range of political
systems. According to the Open
Net Initiative, a consortium of
academics and computer
scientists who track censorship
trends, the number of countries
that censor the internet has gone
from a handful a decade ago to
almost 40 today – and the
censorship club's fastest growing
membership segment consists of
democracies.
Google's woes in many
countries have to do with
something lawyers call
"intermediary liability": the
intermediary service – which
serves as a conduit for customers
to post videos, photos or blogs,
send messages, search for web
content, or whatever – is held
liable and can potentially be
sued, prosecuted or otherwise
punished for what its users do on
its service. In the US,
intermediaries are not held
directly liable for users' postings
and communications. If they
were, Google executives are
quick to point out, it's unlikely
that YouTube, Facebook or
Blogspot could have got off the
ground. The risk of getting sued
into oblivion or being sent to jail
for aiding and abetting crime
would have been too high – or
the staffing costs required to
monitor content in order to
prevent those two things from
happening would have been
prohibitive for a startup
company.
China's system for censoring
domestic websites – including
domestically operated versions
of foreign-branded sites like
Google.cn – relies on
intermediary liability. Websites
located outside China that the
state doesn't want people to see
are blocked by the infamous
filtering system known as the "
great firewall of China". The
Chinese government has no
influence over what actually
appears on those sites because
the people running them are not
physically in China and the data
isn't being kept on computers in
their jurisdiction. Websites
operating inside China, however,
are controlled more directly – by
holding them liable. Operators
are held legally responsible for
everything appearing on or
passing through their services.
They are expected to delete
offending content in a
sufficiently timely manner, or
risk being shut down.
Dozens of Chinese web and
mobile companies that failed to
police their content adequately
have been forced to close their
doors over the past year for this
reason. Google.cn, as a
domestically operated service,
has likewise been held
responsible for what its users
search and find. It has been
under growing pressure from the
authorities over the past year due
to its failure to remove
objectionable links from its
search results to their
satisfaction.
Ironically, David Drummond –
Google's chief legal officer who
penned its stunning
announcement this week – is
facing criminal charges in Italy.
Why? Because last year
YouTube staff failed to act
quickly enough to remove all
copies of a video clip of an
autistic child being bullied by his
classmates. The core issue is a
tough one for democracies: when
awful people put ghastly video
on the internet, with devastating
consequences to innocent people,
who should be held responsible
and punished? Google's lawyers
argued that staffers acted in good
faith and removed the offending
video as soon as they were made
aware of it. The Italian
prosecutors countered that
Google had failed to do enough
to prevent harm to an innocent
child.
In France, President Sarkozy's
government has created a new
agency called the Higher
Authority for the Distribution of
Works and the Protection of
Copyright on the Internet. It
requires internet service
providers to monitor users for
piracy of copyrighted music and
video and send warnings to
violators. A violator who ignores
all warnings and persists would
be brought before a judge and, if
found guilty, could have their
internet service cut off. While
free speech activists pushed for a
World/ 3
court hearing to be included in
the legislation – the original bill
didn't even involve the due legal
process of a court hearing –
serious concerns remain about
the extent to which ISPs will be
required to monitor the actions of
their users, and whether these
surveillance functions could be
abused.
The UK's digital economy bill
would involve similar measures
– sparking similar concerns from
civil liberties groups about
privacy and surveillance, and
whether there will be sufficient
public oversight and
accountability of the system to
prevent abuse.
In India, a law that went into
effect last October holds
domestic and international
internet companies – including
Yahoo!, Facebook, YouTube and
Twitter – accountable for helping
to maintain "public order,
decency, or morality".
Companies are expected to be
proactive about removing
potentially inflammatory
material. Failure to comply can
result in jail terms for executives
of up to seven years. The main
impetus behind the law is
religious violence – an ongoing
problem in India that can be
inflamed by hate-filled postings.
YouTube, Twitter, Facebook
and other social networking
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Google in China: US calls on Beijing to explain hacking

claims
By Tania Branigan (World Tuesday night that it was no Blog announcement, said: "We However, a prominent liberal schools of thought on this. One
news and comment from the longer willing to censor search are not saying one way or the blogger, Ran Yunfei, wrote: says that this is a mere
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) results on its Chinese other whether the attacks are "Google leaving China is smokescreen of sanctimony
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:05:16 PM servicehttp://googleblog.blogspo state-sponsored or done with any definitely not good news." meant to hide a retreat from a
t.com/2010/01/new-approach-to- approval of the state. We do Comparing the company to market Google was unable to
China unsure if Google will quit china.html. know that it was very organised dissidents who emigrate, he conquer for business reasons ...
country after search giant said it It said the decision followed a and the attack came from China added: "Those who would The other is that this is a true act
was not willing to censor content cyber-attack that it believes was and political dissidents and remain are obedient citizens and of moral bravery."
after hacking attacks aimed at gathering information people interested in human rights [that is] satisfactory to the White House spokesman Robert
The United States has on Chinese human rights in China were clearly targeted." authorities." Gibbs said Google had briefed
intervened in Google's challenge activists, and cited a clampdown Google spoke to the Chinese But Isaac Mao, a Chinese the Obama administration before
to the Chinese government, on the internet in China over the government yesterday but has blogger who in 2007 published a its China announcement. He said
urging Beijing to answer claims past year. not disclosed what form the widely circulated open letter to the president believed in the
b y t h e contact took or who was the firm criticising it for self- "freedom of the internet".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/techn http://www.guardian.co.uk/techn involved. "We have talked to the censorship, said: " I think Google Rebecca MacKinnon, page 34
ology/2010/jan/13/china-google- ology/2010/jan/13/google-retreat Chinese authorities and we will has eventually made the right Leader comment, page 36
hacking-attack-ussearch giant of -china-crackdown-censorshipIt be talking to them more in the decision to fight back based on • Google
a massive hacking attack. acknowledged that it might have coming days," it said. their principles." • China
Chinese authorities responded to withdraw from China. "We News portals in China were When it launched google.cn in • Internet
c a u t i o u s l y t o G o o g l e ' s have been briefed by Google on reportedly told to downgrade 2006, the company said it • Censorship
announcement that it was no these allegations, which raise coverage of the issue, but articles believed the benefits of increased • Privacy and the net
longer willing to self-censor in very serious concerns and on several sites including the access to information for people • Data and computer security
China. In the government's first questions," said Hillary Clinton, English language Xinhua site in China outweighed the • Hillary Clinton
public remarks, issued several the US secretary of state. "We carried accounts of Google's negative impact of self- • United States
hours after the news broke, an look to the Chinese government decision, including references to censorship. • Digital media
official said it was "seeking more for an explanation. The ability to censorship, but not hacking.
information". operate with confidence in While campaign groups such as http://www.guardian.co.uk/techn Tania Branigan
The unnamed official from cyberspace is critical in a modern Human Rights Watch praised the ology/2010/jan/13/google-china- guardian.co.uk© Guardian
China's state council information society and economy." firm's decision, it received a censorship-indexGoogle has News & Media Limited 2010 |
office – the cabinet spokesman's In a CNBC interview, David mixed reception in Beijing, even around a third of the Chinese Use of this content is subject to
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Google announced late on officer, and author of the Google reading: "Google – a real man." the internet, said: "There are two

What Made You Fall in Love with Tech? [Commmunity]

By Joel Johnson (Gizmodo) TRS-80. (My family had every was hooked.
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:45:18 PM model up to the 4P.) Trying to
load tapes to watch a little ASCII D a n c e R e v o l u t i o n ? M u s i c , games, synthesis, tinkering—I
For me it was the Radio Shack man dance in a proto- Dance
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Why Google Has
Google quits: Wake-up call or humiliating retreat? Lessons to Learn from
By Jonathan Watts (World business in China, will have been Google is pushed out of this the fate of its competitor but said Real-World Customers
news and comment from the determined by a cost-analysis market now for adopting a it had no intention of following
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) By Brian White
taking account of brand value as -confrontational stance, it could suit by challenging the censors. (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:59:26 PM well as profit. regain lost credibility overseas. "Baidu will always go along with
Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:40:00 PM
In financial terms, Google.cn's Kaiser Kuo, a consultant to Chinese laws," said a
Lost revenue in China and a filtering of information on Youku, a video-sharing website, spokesman. Filed under: Consumer
boost to rival Baidu could be politically sensitive topics has said of Google's position: "It Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco experience, Google (GOOG)
offset by growth in credibility not been well rewarded. While looks like a smokescreen of accept that principle, but human Google ( GOOG) is finding out
for Google the Chinese internet market has sanctimony … being done to rights groups said Google's the hard way that a sleek new
While Chinese netizens laid expanded to 338 million people, draw the eye away from the revelations on the hacking and its piece of gadgetry comes with
wreaths outside the Google Google's business in China has ignominy of a humiliating stand on censorship could set an high consumer expectations. The
headquarters in Beijing today a been undermined by clashes with retreat. But I suspect their example. Google Nexus One, which was
s h o r t d i s t a n c e a w a y t h e the censors and an uneven motives are more earnest. "This is a wake-up call to the just released over a week ago for
executives of Baidu, the biggest playing field. Guge, as the firm Google may have a paltry market international community about direct sale by Google without a
Chinese search engine, must is known locally, has got 12%- share compared to Baidu, but the real risks of doing business in contract from partner T-Mobile
have been thinking of popping 17% of the queries, and 33% of this is not a market to be sneezed China, especially in the USA, is losing the bloom (off the
champagne corks. the income in the Chinese search at." information communications rose, that is).
Google's decision to pick a market. Baidu has almost all the In the long-term, analysts said, technology industry – an Continue reading Why Google
public fight with the censors is rest. China's domestic market would industry essential to the Has Lessons to Learn from Real-
almost certain to cement Baidu's While Google's 800 staff could be a loser, too. protection of freedom of World Customers
control of the world's fastest lose their jobs now, the impact "If Google goes Baidu will be expression and privacy rights," Why Google Has Lessons to
growing internet market, in on the firm's global revenues will the only giant in China's search said Sharon Hom, executive Learn from Real-World
w h i c h d o m i n a n c e r e q u i r e s be small, perhaps 1%-2% of the engine market. A monopolised director of Human Rights in Customers originally appeared
compliance. total. This has prompted market can't be healthy," said China. on BloggingStocks on Wed, 13
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in their history," Tang Jun, a former chief executive, left to set academic, said: "Google's market Supernova Wind
former president of Microsoft up his own venture. share is not very big, but their Jonathan Watts
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"Giving up China means giving internet companies, including for the Chinese market. It News & Media Limited 2010 |
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Google rules search in December, Bing drops Scientists have finally figured
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Haiti earthquake: Twitter updates continued from page 3

services have become powerful So, for that matter, can

from the disaster zone tools for opposition parties,
political dissidents and
whistleblowers around the world.
incumbent politicians in many
democracies, who would rather
not have to face internet-
(World news and comment in Port au Prince.. people still PauP @asger_leth
from the Guardian | screaming but the noise is dying 10pm @RAMHaiti But their power may be organised grassroots citizens'
guardian.co.uk) as darkness sets Just came back from -market. It c o n s t r a i n e d , e v e n i n movements empowered by
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:27:55 PM 6pm @RAMHaiti looks like ground zero. people democracies, as intermediary YouTube, Facebook and Twitter,
If U Need To get in Touch With are trapped it's dark we need liability is seized upon as the and whatever innovations might
oh shiet heavy earth quake right Friends & Family in Haiti. Send light and cell phone service easy way to fight crime, porn, come after them. Talk about
now ! in haiti me a Private Message with 10pm @fredodupoux defamation and intellectual throwing the baby out with the
5pm@fredodupoux(Haiti time) names and Phone Numbers. I'll Things aren't good at Montana.. property piracy. bathwater.
Earthquake 7 Richter in Haiti, get Back to U! 7pm @carelpedre an 8 story building behind me is Voters in democracies are • China
just happening. #Haiti Port au Prince is dark except for rubble @MillaV daniel morel understandably appalled at the • Internet
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were ok at the oloffson..internet 7pm @RAMHaiti photomorel use these sites to do awful • Censorship
is on !! no phones ! hope all are if anyone in haiti is reading this, 11pm @RAMHaiti things. Companies are • France
okay..alot of big building in PAP please go out and help in the Again another aftershock at u n d e r s t a n d a b l y s e e k i n g • India
are down! streets, it's very ugly out there if 00:18 ET with 5.2 magnitude government help in dealing with • Italy
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Haiti survivor's story: 'I fear for
them. The horror has only just begun' Block proxy Access For
(World news and comment
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Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:22:30 PM
Troy Livesay works for a
Christian NGO, World Wide
Village, and lives with his family
in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The
following witness account
appeared on his blog
"The sun is about to come up.
The aftershocks continue. Some
more noticeable than others.
There is no way to even begin to
share the things we've heard and
seen since 5pm. To do so would
take hours that we don't have
right now. Some feel wrong to
tell. Like only God should know
these personal horrible tragedies.
The few things we can confirm
– yes the four-storey Caribbean
market building is completely
demolished. Yes, it was open.
Yes, the National Palace
collapsed. Yes, Gov't buildings
nearby the palace collapsed. Yes
St Joseph's boys home is
completely collapsed. Yes
Firefox 3.6 due this month;
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(Webware.com)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 6:57:00 AM
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countless other houses, churches,
hospitals, schools, and
businesses have collapsed. There
are buildings that suffered almost
no damage. Right next door will
be a pile of rubble.
Thousands of people are
trapped. To guess at a number
would be like guessing drops in
the ocean. Precious lives hang in
the balance. When pulled from
the rubble there is no place to
take them. Haiti has an almost
non-existent medical care
system.
I cannot imagine what the next
weeks and months will be like. I
am afraid for everyone. Never
have I seen people stronger than
Haitian people. But I am afraid
for them. For us.
When the quake hit it took many
seconds to even process what
was happening. The house was
rocking in a way I cannot begin
to describe. It felt fake. It felt
like a movie. Things were
crashing all over the house. It felt
like the world was ending. I do
not know why my house stands
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planned for this quarter with a
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and my children all lie sleeping
in their beds right now. It defies
logic that my babies were spared
while thousands of others were
not.
There are friends and co-
workers that are missing. People
no-one can account for. People
we work with and love. More
than I can name, but in particular
we wait on one friend who lived
near the Hotel Montana – which
has reportedly collapsed.
The horror has only just begun
and I beg you to get on your
knees – I truly mean ON YOUR
KNEES – and pray for the
people of this country."
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• Port-au-Prince
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What Google might leave
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By Tom Krazit
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Dear Jeffrey Deitch: Free Ideas for Your New Museum

By Alissa Walker (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:39:15 PM

New MOCA director Jeffrey

Deitch might have just accepted
the art world's most controversial
position, but if there's one thing
everyone can agree he's great at,
it's throwing a party. And now,
he's got a bright, blank new L.A.
canvas to work with. We asked
artists, curators and critics to
provide some guidance for
Deitch's new gig.
Time to pitch a MOCA reality
show to one of the major
networks now that you're in L.A.
The concept is your life: "ACK!
The economy's gone to shit so
now I'm a newbie museum
director." During this 13-episode
series viewers will watch you
navigate museum politics, get
lost in L.A. and schmooze with
celebrities and art glitterati.
Show title: Sink or Swim! The
prize: Glory--and the USA's best
museum stays open.-Paddy
Johnson, Art Fag City
Deitch should expand his plans unfortunate meeting with the a "cop art" show? They could ourselves in the Ocean as facilities and having a red carpet
with James Franco and General business end of a Giacometti advertise it on the backs of celebration. Second thing is to --or maybe blue, black, or green-
Hospital and embrace Los sculpture to the back of his head. police cars, next to the "There's bring together artists from all -premiere in conjunction with
Angeles' soap opera scene. How Or poor Lulu Spencer is crushed No Excuse for Domestic around L.A., and paint the MOCA and Grauman's Chinese
about filming a couple of scenes by a giant Serra installation. Or Violence" stickers.-Aaron Rose, outside of City Hall from the Theater.-Gary Baseman, artist
at one of the museums? Surely her brother Lucky fails to live up artist, writer and independent base to the Tom Bradley Room Years ago the Christmas
there's an evil twin/stolen to his name and meets an curator at the top! window displays in L.A.'s
baby/back from the untimely end when he is injured The first thing Jeffrey Deitch Then he should pick a dozen downtown department stores
dead/amnesia/murder mystery by an exploding Robert Gober should do is to have a insane big contemporary artists and give featured multimedia installations
that can take place at MOCA. Cigar sculpture. The possibilities Art Parade bringing the whole each one access to one major that drew huge crowds. So many
Imagine electrocuting mobster are truly endless.-Marissa Gluck, city together, painting ourselves Hollywood motion picture people gathered that they
Sonny Corinthos with a Dan Curbed LA as Art from MOCA downtown studio. Each creates an art blocked traffic. Despite the
Flavin sculpture. Or his main I heard the LAPD has quite a all the way down to Santa performance film using either
few artists in their ranks. Maybe Monica, where we baptize their archives or production DEAR page 9
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hopeful buzz of boosters, this
vibrant and populated downtown
is a culture as lost to us as that of
the Toltec or the Maya. We
know MOCA and Deitch
Projects can bring stunning
spectacles to art world
sophisticates, but how about
extravaganzas accessible to
regular folks? We call on Jeffrey
Deitch to see the potential in the
empty storefronts surrounding
MOCA and to transform them
into zones of creative discovery.
L.A. still boasts one of the
geniuses who created those
1950's window spectacles:
master puppeteer Bob Baker.
Why not hook Bob up with Paul
McCarthy and turn downtown's
windows into the weirdest high
art puppet and monster shows
anyone's ever seen? Welcome to
L.A., Mr. Deitch. Now let's
block some traffic, and blow
some minds.-Kim Cooper and
Richard Schave, Esotouric bus
adventures
A massive group show taking
over all of MOCA that explores
the extreme racial disparity in the
art world and how it is mirrored
in the extreme segregation of Los
Angeles along racial lines.
Deitch could scour L.A. for
emerging and unknown
contemporary African-American
and Latino artists to fill the
museum to attract a largely under
-served segment of the market.
The hip, super smart
street/graf/urban show, centered
of course around Kehinde Wiley
(no one will question the old
business connection since he's
one of the top African-American
artists who will definitely attract
loads of kids) will bring in a
whole new audience into MOCA
that generally gets ignored while
generating huge revenue streams.
He can stock the gift shop with
music, posters, magazines, a half
-pipe, t-shirts, and hats all
designed by the hottest
graf/street artists in L.A. and
New York for corporate sponsors
like Puma! (Deitch is excellent at
getting corporate sponsorship.)
The socially conscious
exhibition will finally help de-
segregate Los Angeles through
the utopian promise of art that
for too long has gone unfulfilled.
This will help Deitch deliver on
his promise to attract the young,
untapped audiences that will fill
the museums coffers, while
promoting real diversity in a city
haunted by racial violence and
the persistent problems of drugs,
gang violence, and poverty that
plague minority communities in
L.A. For Deitch, this show could
save MOCA and redeem the
souls of white, rich men like Eli
Broad. The show could then
travel around the world bringing
greater balance to the palid
complexion of the art world.-
William Powhida, artist
L.A. is 80 miles wide. It doesn't
need big centralized museums. It
needs lots of small ones that
travel. My advice: Deitch should
repurpose his gallery's ice cream
truck and hit the road with works
from the MOCA permanent
collection. He could get a
Twitter feed and update
followers on his whereabouts.
(Sample Tweet: "At Marukai
Market in Gardena eating
Hawaiian plate lunch with
several Jason Rhoades pieces
from Swedish Erotica series. DM
me for deets.") In no time, I'm
positive he'd have more
followers than the Kogi truck.
(Okay, not really, but I'm sure
he'd be close.)-Carolina A.
Miranda, C-Monster
If MOCA is to survive, it has to
expand its reach. MOCA needs
to create new audiences by
showing Angelenos how to
understand the vocabulary, the
grammar, the syntax and the
historical context of
contemporary art. MOCA must
provide the public with the tools
to understand what art is to
develop an educated audience
and collector base. Shows need
to be curated by museum quality
professionals using local artists
from local galleries to
demonstrate how art can be
formally understood though
subject matter, color,
composition, materials, the use
of grids, patterns, lighting--and
all the other variants--in addition
to considering the artist’s
personal intent.
These shows should inhabit
vacant stores in shopping areas
to reach people who do not
attend art galleries or museums.
The art should be for sale and
the proceeds split equally among
the artist, the non-profit space
and the dealer. And having the
art pre-vetted by professionals
will make it easier for first time
buyers to risk that first purchase
and have their first opportunity
to live with a piece of art. Lastly,
if anyone is interested in any
artist, they would be referred to
the artist's gallery, thus
supporting the entire art food
chain.-Brady Westwater, LA
Cowboy
How about pop-ups at gas
stations where people sell
carpets, statues, boxing ring bags
and other detritus. All you need
are some easels and a security
guard.-John Chase, Urban
Designer, City of West
Hollywood
Deitch should incorporate a
subway/Metro element to the
MOCA. Have an artist create a
map for people to take around
L.A. (can be downloaded or
printed from MOCA website).
Each participating Metro stop
will have a theme or design that
makes it a unique artistic
destination and will also serve as
locations for clues to an art
mystery hunt leading to the
museum. The buses or Metro
cars could be wrapped or
outfitted with images or graphics
that are part of the hunt. They
could either be trivia messaging,
directions or clues leading to
MOCA.
Once at MOCA, guests get a
specially-designed postcard or
prize showing they completed
the hunt as well as a sticker they
can wear. Museum could also
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have a photo booth that takes
photo of all participants who
have completed the hunt and
have it projected on a wall in the
museum or on their site. The
postcard/prize and sticker would
only be for guests who took the
Metro. Museum should
encourage people to do this in
groups. The more the merrier!-
Meg Wells, FLUX
Relaunch The Art Parade in
L.A., running it through Bunker
Hill. The Voluptuous Horror of
Karen Black should perform as a
way of transitioning the
tradition. Kembra Pfahler,
TVHOKB leader and L.A.
native, would replace all her
regular crew with MOCA board
members. Eli Broad will play
drums, using the exhumed skull
of John Fante as part of his kit.
Why stop with promoting
"young" artists? Go for the fetal.
In a collaboration with his new
neighbors at the Walt Disney
Concert Hall, Deitch could have
pregnant artists ride skateboards
on Gehry's dying-to-be-a-
skatepark walls while Dan Zanes
blasts Black Randy and the
Metrosquad covers from the roof
of Deitch Project's
decommissioned ice cream
truck(on blocks). Casey Spooner
will be draped over the steering
wheel, made up to look like he's
been shot in the head. When
Zanes hits the choruses, Spooner
will lift his head and sing
harmony through a megaphone.-
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Brent Burket, Brooklyn-based
writer and curator, Heart As
Arena(He is totally bummed
about Jeffrey Deitch leaving the
East Coast. He frets that Snooki
will be next.)
I propose that Jeffrey Deitch
hold a series of open, public (real
and virtual) forums to directly
engage and document the
opinions, ideas and passion that
his appointment triggered. It
could be streamed live online
and then edited into a
publication.-Bettina Korek,
ForYourArt
Jeffrey Deitch is the king of art
in downtown New York City. As
the new director of MOCA, he
will live in Los Angeles, which
has several downtowns,
depending on who you talk to.
Deitch has expressed an interest
in bringing his world famous art
parade to Los Angeles, whose
freeway systems are often
referred to as the world's largest
parking lot. I don't believe a
parade could move very far or
fast here. Deitch also claims that
he is interested in attracting a
"new, younger audience that is
not a professional art-going
audience, but that is very
interested in art."
I propose Deitch host an art
parade-like event to unite the
city through art...but in the sky.
It would be a day of art for
everyone. The MOCA would
map out several downtown
points across the city and anchor
them with clusters of hot air
balloons. Each balloon will
represent one living artist in the
area (i.e. Chuck Arnoldi in
Venice or Mister Cartoon in
Downtown L.A.). Each
"downtown" will have a path
leading back to the MOCA with
mapped out art destinations to
go to. It could be a day of "art on
the run"--part treasure hunt--all
art, all day.-Souris Hong-Poretta,
Hustler of Culture
Deitch photo via Scribe Media
Got an idea for Deitch at
MOCA?
Gmail to get secure
Net connection by
default
By Stephen Shankland
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 9:29:00 AM
HTTPS encryption makes
snooping on network activity
harder, and after a hack attempt
on Gmail, Google is switching it
on by default its e-mail service.
Originally posted at Deep Tech
E-reader News Edition
Rather's
Appeal
Rejected
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 1/12/2010 3:22:24 PM
Looks like Dan Rather’s lawsuit
against CBS for breach of
contract is now an ex-lawsuit:
NY Top Court Rejects Dan
Rather Appeal in CBS Case.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New
York State’s highest court on
Tuesday declined to hear former
CBS Evening News anchor Dan
Rather’s appeal of a decision
dismissing his $70 million
lawsuit against CBS Corp.

Space Tourism Update: Virgin Galactic Can Play Ball on

Florida Field
By Ben Paynter (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:37:31 PM
Richard Branson gained another
small step toward the great leap
of space tourism yesterday, when
Cecil Field, a commercial airport
in Florida, announced they have
achieved federal license to the
company's new breed of plane-
like spacecrafts.
Rather than shoot into the
atmosphere like rockets, Branson
has designed a six-passenger,
two-pilot craft capable of sub-
orbital flight by taking off
horizontally. It has a big booster
pack, though, so it will need
much of the 12,500-foot long,
200-foot wide tarmac to do that.
Passengers are already plunking
down $200,000 per person for a
2.5 hour slingshot ride offering
about six minutes of actual
Superman-like weightlessness.
Branson hopes to make more
money by using his fleet to
launch small satellites while up
there, too.
is building another in New
Mexico. After all, space tourists
on the East Coast would likely
loath spending five plus hours to
cross the country on a
commercial airliner when it now
takes about half that time to
leave the planet.
[Via Reuters Image:
Cecil field offers a particularly http://www.flickr.com/photos/jur
great launchpad for the mogul, vetson// CC BY 2.0]
who has already secured an
additional site in California and

Thousands Feared Dead in Haiti After Earthquake

(Little Green Footballs) Sky News video shows the night’s 7.0 earthquake in Haiti, city of Port-au-Prince was
terrible destruction from last where reports are that the capital devastated.[Video]
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South Korea's Sejong City Could Be Competition
for Abu Dhabi's Masdar City
By Ariel Schwartz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 3:11:32 PM
First Abu Dhabi announced the
ultra-sustainable Masdar City,
and now South Korea has
decided to build its own self-
sufficient city, dubbed Sejong
City or the Multifunctional
Administrative City (MAC). The
MAC, located 100 miles south of
Seoul, is slated for completion
by 2020.
The $14.6 billion city wasn't
always meant to be a model of
sustainability. When it was first
planned in 2005, the MAC was
supposed to house a number of
ministries and public agencies--
hence the name. But the
government decided it would be
a waste of national resources,
and so the current model of
Intel In Uptrend
By Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 5:00:00 PM
Filed under: Stocks to Buy, Intel
Thinking about shorting Intel's
stock? Think again. Bellwether
Intel Corporation ( INTC), the
world's largest semiconductor
manufacturer, is signaling that
the global economic recovery is
strengthening, which is why I'm
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up shop in Sejong. Eventually,
South Korean officials hope to
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Sejong City will be considerably Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:10:00 PM
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company's shares, first Continue reading Intel In choose to take this whole home
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Ray of Light: Confidence

in Global Economic
Recovery Rises
By Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:20:00 PM

Filed under: International

markets, Good news More
modest good news on the global
economic front, as confidence in
the world economy rose amid a
Move Over, Plasma, LED, and pick-up in both manufacturing
and service sector activity, a new

OLED: LPD Is in Town Bloomberg News survey

indicated.
The Bloomberg Professional
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Continue reading Ray of Light:
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Company) G lobal Confidence Recovery Rises
The LPD system uses lasers to Sound too good to be true? It is, Index(BPGCI) rose to a record- Ray of Light: Confidence in
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:36:22 PM
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3D Porn? The studios are way ahead of you.

By John Biggs (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:15:49 PM

For years the central question

when any new television
technology comes out is whether
explicit entertainment providers
will adopt it. In the case of 3D
TV, friends, there’s no question:
3D TV is here and its here to
stay… but will it be popular? We
talked to someone close to the
industry, Kathee Brewer, who
offered some insight on the
future of 3D pr0n.
Kathee is a former editor-in-
chief of trade journal AVN
Online and a co-founder of
irreverent sex, politics and
culture site DailyBabylon.com.
These days she plagues readers
and editors across the spectrum
with freelance articles about all
sorts of useless information but
today she sat down with us for in
IMterview about the future of 3D
in porn – and why it’s already a
moot point.
CG: So 3D porn. Great or
amazing?
Kathee: uh…. How about “Too
soon to tell?” There are some
really good things about it, and
some, frankly, scary things about
it.
CG: Well, remember the old
days when we were all like
“Porn will define who wins, Blu-
Ray or HD DVD?” Is this the
same thing or is it still too weird?
Kathee: How could I forget? I
think 3D porn may loom toward
the “too weird” end of the scale
this time. Don’t get me wrong —
it’ll be popular, but I’m not sure
how quickly it will catch on
CG: Did porn define the winner
in that last race, do you think?
Kathee: In the Blu-ray vs. HD-
DVD battle? I think Hollywood
got that one. It’s still a challenge
for adult content producers to
find Blu-ray duplication facilities
CG: What’s holding that back?
People don’t want to touch the
stuff?
Kathee: Most duplication
facilities make the majority of
their money off mainstream
content, and studios like Disney
absolutely will not allow their
product to be produced in the
same facility as pr0n.
CG: nice. CHILLING
EFFECTS!
Kathee: Very much so! lol
CG: So in terms of HD cameras,
it probably wasn’t so hard for
them to move over. But 3D
cameras? Have you talked to
anyone about that? Would they
invest in the hardware?
Kathee: 3D cameras are no
challenge for adult, really.
Sometimes, the difference in the
way adult producers think has to
evolve in order to make 3D pr0n
interesting, and THAT can be
challenging
the gadget? Heck, adult content
folks are all over every new
gadget that comes down the pike.
Studios already are investing in
the hardware. One gay adult
studio made the leap to 3D porn
about a year ago.
CG: They did, now, did they?
I mean is it like Michael Jackson
in Captain EO 3D?? With like
wieners instead of flying things?
Kathee: LOL! Now there’s an
image for you….
CG: So bottom line: How
popular will this be? Hasn’t
streaming killed most physical
media for these guys?
Kathee: I honestly think it’s too
early to tell. The gay studio says
it’s doing well, but consumers
tend to either love or hate the
stuff
CG: Well, there’s the vertigo!
Kathee: Consumers aren’t so
wild about having to wear
special glasses to view pr0n
although some really love feeling
like they’re “in” the scene. I’m
not quite sure how comfortable
I’d be with a 3D pr0n closeup.
CG: I mean HD is bad enough
with the stretch marks and the
hair and whatnot
Kathee: Exactly! Now imagine
viewing in 3D all those physical
things most people hope others
never see….
CG: Good lord
Kathee: Not a particularly pretty
picture, is it?
CG: Kittens are pretty, though. i
like kittens in baskets. wearing
bonnets
Kathee: Did you get to check
out Bad Girls in 3D’s new
“home 3D porn delivery
system”[SFW] while you were in
Vegas?
CG: No. No i did not
Kathee: That company is hoping
to combine 3D adult content with
IPTV delivery
CG: See, i could definitely see
that. I can see it in my head right
now.
Kathee: IPTV actually is a
growing market segment for
adult, especially in Europe and
3D IPTV has lots of promise, if
the kinks get worked out. In
order to make 3D ANYTHING
work in a home environment,
though, there are variables that
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have to be just right or the
experience is disappointing.
CG: And who wants that?
Kathee: Sexually explicit
content, though, probably won’t
be held to as high standards in
3D as mainstream content, just
as it hasn’t been held to
Hollywood’s standards on any
other scale.
CG: So low quality 3D porn.
Sounds delightful
Kathee: Doesn’t it? Porn has
gone big time into HD content.
In fact, I’m not sure anyone is
producing anything in standard-
def anymore. I know they’re not
shooting in standard-def, except
in rare instances. Even the Web
studios are shooting in HD,
though HD can’t be delivered via
the Web yet.
CG: So they take new
technologies and just future
proof.
Kathee: Many studios that
started out on the Web now are
producing DVDs for the brick-
and-mortar market, as well. So
right — porn is big into “future-
proofing.”
CG: I mean what else do they
have to spend their money on?
Sets? Scripts?
Kathee: One of these days, some
enterprising future archeologist
is going to uncover some
enormous stash of future-proofed
porn and come to all kinds of
interesting conclusions about
21st Century humans.
CG: So 3D porn is already here
and the big guys like Sony and
Samsung are rushing to offer
ways to view the content.
Kathee: I’m sure the big guys
like Sony and Samsung are
hoping no one ever discovers
they’re rushing to offer ways to
view adult content, if they are.
Sony isn’t hot on porn appearing
on ANY of its platforms:
PlayStation, Blu-ray, you name
it.
CG: But soon it will all be 3D.
Imagine the possibilities.
Kathee: Did you see the sex
robot in Vegas? Now THERE’s
real 3D.
So there you have it: porn is
basically way ahead of the
studios on this one and when you
buy your 3D TV rig, porn will be
right there alongside you,
offering gentle encouragement
and larger than life 3D genitalia.
Welcome to 2010.
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US Court Brings Back Price
Fixing Lawsuit Against
Major Record Labels
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) the district court back in 2008,
Submitted at 1/13/2010 10:38:00 AM but in a surprising move, the 2nd
circuit appeals court has revived
F o r m a n y y e a r s , w e ' v e the lawsuit, claiming that the
wondered why the major labels e v i d e n c e i s " s u f f i c i e n t t o
haven't gotten in trouble for what plausibly suggest" price fixing
appears to be clear price fixing-- by the major labels with regards
having all of the major labels to digital music. So now it goes
band together to both demand back to the lower court. I still
identical wholesale pricing and doubt this will really have much
attempt to dictate retail pricing of an impact, but it's nice to see
by partners as well. There have some recognition of what's
been various investigations by seemed pretty obvious for quite
both local and federal officials, some time.
along with a few lawsuits -- but Permalink| Comments| Email
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One lawsuit was tossed out by

The 2009 Engadget Awards

By Joshua Topolsky This year we've got 24 Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
(Engadget) categories up for grabs, with 48 to get your entries in. Now, go
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F o r y o u r v o t i n g ( a n d are reader-nominated, and the Continue reading The 2009
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2009 may have slipped through b e t w e e n 4 - 6 d e v i c e s o r on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:00:00
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Segway Inc. bought by

Segway UK?
By Donald Melanson the letter itself reportedly
(Engadget) confirms that it's more of a
Submitted at 1/13/2010 5:35:00 PM
complete buyout, with current
CEO Jim Norrod supposedly set
Four percent of American gamers are This one has been flying under
the radar for the past day or so,
but talk is starting to heat up on
to be replaced by Tricia Laidler,
and Segway UK's Wayne
Mitchell stepping up to be the
pirates~! some forums that Segway Inc.
has effectively been bought out
new COO. Still nothing in the
way of official statements from
By Nicholas Deleon results are the results. so damn trivial to find a torrent by one of its own dealerships. either party just yet, but we'll let
(CrunchGear) Also, it’s not that four percent of of Popular Game, and let it That initial word seems to have you know as soon as we hear
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:30:40 PM
respondents admitted to piracy. download for a few minutes. c o m e f r o m a S e g w a y I n c . anything one way or the other.
However many people admitted Then off you go. Compare that s h a r e h o l d e r , w h o s a y s h e [Thanks, Ed J]
Pirates are normal people, not to piracy in the survey, the NPD to Xbox or Wii piracy where you recently received a stockholder Segway Inc. bought by Segway
shady ne’er-do-wells then applied the usual statistical have to fiddle with your system letter informing him that Segway UK? originally appeared on
Four percent of U.S. gamers wizardry that pollsters use for to make a pirated game work. Inc. would be "merging" with Engadget on Wed, 13 Jan 2010
admit to pirating video games, elections and whatnot. So that The same report also touched on J W H H o l d i n g s , w h i c h i s 17:35:00 EST. Please see our
according to a new NPD report f o u r p e r c e n t s h o u l d b e t h e i d e a o f v i d e o g a m e apparently a company formed by terms for use of feeds.
that apparently we’re not cool interpreted as, four percent of distribution. On the console side, Segway UK simply for the Permalink| SegwayChat| Email
enough to get directly from the Americans admitted to video 90 percent of all sales were via purpose of this merger. What's this| Comments
NPD. I’m going to guess that game piracy. retail (that is, not Xbox Live m o r e , w h i l e t h e d e a l i s
more than one of you fall into Presumably the study also took Arcade, PSN, and Wii Shop), apparently being called a merger,
that four percent. i n t o a c c o u n t p e o p l e ’ s while 70 percent of other sales
So yeah, the NPD (those are the t r u t h f u l n e s s . (including PC) were retail.
guys who release monthly sales So for the purposes of this here Meaning that things like Steam
Warning: This Site May Be
reports) had a little survey that post, let’s just say that four are gigantic. Sharing Your Data
asked 8,000 people if they had percent of Americans have The last PC game I bought at By Scott Gilbertson (Wired
ever pirated a video game. Only pirated video games. Simple retail was The Sims in the year Top Stories) policies, which differ greatly and
four percent of respondents enough. change often. One designer has a
2000. Granted, I wasn’t a PC
admitted to it, which is patently As you might expect, 72 percent gamer till a few weeks ago, but Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:30:00 PM possible solution that uses ideas
ridiculous: the number has to be of all piracy took place on the now? It’s all Steam, baby. borrowed from the Creative
The social web is in dire need of Commons and from Firefox's
much, much higher. Still, the PC/Mac, probably because it’s
an easy-to-understand visual phishing protection system.
system for outlining site privacy
16 Gadgets/
Something About Booze, Vomiting, Art, Music
and a Toilet [Hacks]
By Sean Fallon (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:00:00 PM
I...I just don't know what to
make of this Nunk on Droise
performance art by Stéphane
Perrin.
Simply put, the performance
consists in dynamically
generating noise music from the
alcohol drunk by the performer
during the performance. During
the performance, the performer
drinks alcohol and several
breathalyzers are used to
generate sounds and interacts
Color-temperature adustable OLED lighting? Yes,
please
By Devin Coldewey
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:00:19 PM
We’ve noted before that LED
lights are, while energy efficient,
a bit cool in color, leading to the
“my house looks like an
operating room” effect. There
have been attempts to warm
them up (with“quantum dots”)
but this panel looks a hell of a lot
more promising, even if it’s not
particularly bright.
J.H. Jou, a Taiwanese
researcher, has found that with a
with the visual. In addition, the
abuse of alcohol inevitably leads
to uncontrollable results and the
body of the performer becomes
itself a musical instrument.
Several alcohol sensors output
each a voltage that depends on
the alcohol content in the breath
of the performer. These voltages
are measured by an Arduino
board and sent to a program
written under OpenFrameworks
that processes them and sends sounds from the received data. In
them through OSC (Open Sound addition, the use of a microphone
Control) to a Pure Data patch. allows the sound emitted by one
The patch dynamically generates
particular species of OLED, he
can vary the voltage and produce
a huge portion of the temperature
gamut:
…this plain driver-IC can
automatically modulate the
voltage to render any desired
color temperature between 2200
and 8000 K…
If they can get these bright
E-reader News Edition
of the (un)desirable effects of the
consumption of various alcohols
in a very short time, namely
vomiting, to be processed too by
the Pure Data patch. This Tiny Core i7
Yes...simple. All I know is that I
want some sort of warning
Motherboard Could
system where my toilet calls me Almost Fit In Your
up and magically plays the Pocket [PCs]
menacing Jaws theme when my
By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
stomach is on the verge of
retaliating against my alcohol Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:40:00 PM
consumption. [ Nunk on Droise
via Make] 5 inches by 3.7 inches—that's
the diminutive footprint of the
fully loaded conga-BM57 Core
i7 motherboard.
Despite its small stature, the
conga-BM57 features an
impressive spec list, including a
2.66 GHz Core i7, 8GB of RAM,
integrated intel graphics, 5 PCI
enough, it’d be a huge boon to Express lanes, 8 USB 2.0 ports,
photographers. Although we 3 SATA, 1 EIDE and Gigabit
work in RAW now for the most Ethernet—plus support for dual
part and can change the color displays over VGA, LVDS,
temperature of the whole image, HDMI, DisplayPort or SDVO.
individual light setups with The price and release date are
d i f f e r e n t t e m p e r a t u r e s a r e still unknown, but at this size, it
integral to setting up a scene. would make one heck of a HTPC
These panels won’t reach the that could double for some
brightness of the megabulbs used gaming. [ SlashGear]
in cinema lighting for a while,
but the variable color
temperature will certainly make
them worth keeping tabs on.
[via OLED-display.net]
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Palin on
Fox: Asking
Questions
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:00:22 PM

Philips Cam, Muse and Here’s Sarah Palin making her

debut on Fox News, admitting
that during the lead-up to her
Ariaz mark a renaissance 2008 vice-presidential debate
with Joe Biden she “questioned”

for the boring PMP whether Iraq might have been

responsible for the 9/11 terror
attacks. (This is the second half
Panasonic 2010 point By Paul Miller (Engadget)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:32:00 PM
flash, SD expansion and HDMI
out for a mere $50 more. The
of her appearance on the
O’Reilly show.)[Video]
Ariaz finds a simpler calling,
and shoot line hands-on This is soon enough to market with a 2.4-inch LCD, HDMI,
that it's hard to blame the iPod 8GB and an $80 tag. We'll have
Interviewed by Fox News’s Bill
O’Reilly on his show “The
By Nilay Patel (Engadget) since we're big fans of touch-to- n a n o s p e c i f i c a l l y f o r i t s to play with these to see if O’Reilly Factor,” Palin trashed
Submitted at 1/13/2010 3:29:00 PM focus. As for the rest, well, appearance, but either way it they're worth taking home from many of the critical accounts of
they're Lumix point-and-shoots - seems that the Philips Cam is the Walmart, but we're glad to see her candidacy in the new book
We're just cleaning out the rest - they all seemed competent and newest member to the oh-so- Philips is trying to stay in the “Game Change.” But one story
of our memory cards from CES, sturdy, and we can't wait for the small club of MP3 / camera game -- we can't all be lucky from the book that Palin did not
and we totally forgot this day when Panasonic hires a combos. The new player is enough to be Zune HD owners. say was “made up” or “a lie” was
moment of unintentional hilarity design team to clean up that joined in its life of crime by the Philips Cam, Muse and Ariaz the description of her uncertainty
while grabbing a quick hands-on straight-from-1983 all-caps new Muse and Ariaz, which at mark a renaissance for the boring as to whether Iraq had a hand in
with Panasonic's new point-and- interface. Check out the rest in last offer a higher-end aspect to PMP originally appeared on the planning of the Sept. 11
shoot line-- that's the new the gallery! attacks.
Philips' long-lackluster PMP Engadget on Wed, 13 Jan 2010
touchscreen DMC-FP3, asking Gallery: Panasonic 2010 point lineup. The Cam does up a 1.8- 16:32:00 EST. Please see our “I did talk a lot to [campaign
for the name of our baby. Sadly, and shoot hands-on strategist] Steve Schmidt about
inch screen, 8GB of storage and terms for use of feeds. Permalink
we were not able to provide it Panasonic 2010 point and shoot a 2 megapixel camera for $100, PlayerBites| iMP3.net| Email the history of the war and where
with one, and it responded by line hands-on originally appeared but the Muse has a full 3.2- this| Comments the attackers could have come
continuing to have a somewhat on Engadget on Wed, 13 Jan inches of touchscreen, 16GB of from,” Palin said of her debate
wonky hybrid touchscreen-and- 2010 15:29:00 EST. Please see prep during the fall of 2008 —
buttons control scheme. We're our terms for use of feeds. more than five years after the
assuming some of the lag we saw Permalink| | Email this| start of the war in Iraq and seven
had to do with an early software Comments years after the terrorist attacks
build -- we'll see if things are that hit New York and
cleared up when this guy ships, Washington.
“I do admit to asking questions
about that,” she said.
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Samsung announces
64GB moviNAND flash,
32GB microSD card
By Donald Melanson
(Engadget)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:01:00 PM
It's been quite a while since
Samsung announced the first
actual memory device to result
from its 30nm manufacturing
process, but it's now back with
an announcement for another
pair of memory products that
should both be hitting the market
relatively soon. The larger of
those is a new 64GB
moviNAND embedded memory
device, which joins the
company's exisiting 32GB,
16GB, 8GB and 4GB options,
and measures just 1.4mm thick
while still packing 16 30nm-
class 32Gb MLC NAND chips
and a controller. That's joined by
a new 32GB microSD card,
which fully doubles the capacity
of the highest capacity microSD
First Direct Measurement of
Exoplanet Light Spectrum
By Alexis Madrigal (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:40:00 PM
The light spectrum from a u n d e r s t a n d i n g E a r t h - l i k e
glowing Jupiter-like planet, e x o p l a n e t s .
which contains clues about the
composition of the planet's
cards currently on the market,
and is apparently now being
sampled by OEMs with mass
production slated to begin
sometime next month.
Samsung announces 64GB
moviNAND flash, 32GB
microSD card originally
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13 Jan 2010 16:01:00 EST.
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atmosphere, has been directly
measured for the first time in
what could be a dress rehearsal
for future attempts at
The Tianjin Jinke A6 and A9 series
ebook readers
By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:00:15 PM
Just in case you need another
ebook reader option instead of
the Kindle or Nook or iRiver
Story or Sony Reader or the
upcoming Skiff, here’s the T
ianjin Jinke A6 and A9.
At this point it’s not the the
hardware is all that bad on all the
random ebook readers leaving
Asia. It’s just that they simply
lack a digital delivery system or
are too similar to products
already on the market from
household brands.
These two are no different. Both
use SiPix panels with have
multitouch-compatible capacitive
touchscreens. They also both use
a 400MHz Samsung ARM9 CPU
and have 2GB of memory, along
with 802.11b/g, an SD card slot,
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and optional EV-DO, WCDMA,
TD-SCDMA 3G wireless. Both
models also have an optional
QWERTY keyboard. The A6
uses a 600×800 6-inch display
while the A9 has a 768×1024
panel.
No word on pricing or
availability yet — not that it
really matters.
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How Conceptual Metaphors are Stunting Web Innovation
By Venkatesh Rao
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:49:23 PM
Venkatesh Rao is a researcher in
the Xerox Innovation Group, and
the project manager for
Trailmeme, a research beta
technology that allows users to
blaze and follow trails through
web content and the Trailmeme
for WordPress plugin. He blogs
at ribbonfarm.com.
As much as we focus on
developing new technologies, it
is also essential that we break
free of certain metaphors that
bind and restrict our thinking
about what these technologies
can ultimately achieve. The
familiar “document” metaphor,
among others, has cast a long
shadow on how we think about
the web, and is standing in the
way of some innovation. The
Conceptual Metaphor
In his classic study of media
theory, Understanding Media,
Marshall McLuhan wrote, “We
look at the present through a rear
-view mirror. We march
backwards into the future.”
Consider these terms: page,
scroll, file, folder, trash can,
bookmark, inbox, email,
desktop, library, archive and
index. They are all part of the
document metaphor, a superset
of the “desktop” metaphor. Some
elements, such as scroll, desktop
and library pre-date the printing
press, but all are based on some
sort of “marks on paper-like
material” reference.
It is important to understand that
the document metaphor is more
than a UI metaphor. It is in fact a
fundamental way of
understanding one domain in
terms of another. For better or
worse, we continue to
understand the web in relation to
how we understand documents.
Unlike figurative metaphors,
such as “he was a lion in battle,”
which are simple rhetorical
statements, conceptual
metaphors like document-ness
are pre-linguistic, and quietly
ubiquitous. They infiltrate how
we think about things on a much
more basic level.
Did it ever occur to you that the
phrase “the stock market is up”
is actually a particular spatial
metaphor for what is really just a
number? As a result, we think of
the stock market as a geography,
which has non-trivial
ramifications for how we make
decisions about it.
This is often a good thing —
conceptual metaphors can be
helpful. In dealing with novel
phenomena, we often have no
choice but to understand the new
in terms of the old, the complex
in terms of the primal, the
abstract in terms of the tangible
(companies often pitch
themselves according to this
logic, i.e. “we’re like FriendFeed
for dating”). Accordingly we
often conceive of new features,
new business lines, and new
market opportunities in the same
way. The Tyranny of the
Document Metaphor
Conceptual metaphors aren’t
always a good thing, though,
helpful as they may be. A
conceptual metaphor enriches
your thinking in some directions
and impoverishes it in others. It
can become a crutch, and a
burden.
Consider the terms open and
close for digital documents.
Serviceable though they were in
the early eighties, they make
little sense for the live,
constantly evolving web “page.”
For a rapidly changing page, the
pause, play and rewind metaphor
borrowed from music player UIs
is more appropriate, something
the Google Wave team has
recognized, for example.
As a technology evolves, the
metaphor struggles to keep up. It
becomes increasingly strained.
McLuhan’s “ medium is the
message” phenomenon starts to
really kick in, as users encounter
the limits and biases of the
medium.
In the early days of computing,
we needed only a few terms,
such as click and double-click, to
mitigate the deficiencies of the
document metaphor. Today, we
make new demands of the
metaphor every day, and it fails
us regularly. Consider the irony
of your Twitter home “page” that
can “scroll” much faster than you
can “read.”
The solution? Look for new
conceptual metaphors. Liberating
the web, Conceptually
Let’s continue with the Twitter
example.
The conceptual metaphor of a
party, with many overlapping
public conversations, works
much better than the document
metaphor. Sophisticated users
keep Twitter in their peripheral
vision, where it behaves more
like an oral medium that you
“listen” to in the background,
rather than “seeing” it in the
foreground, which the
“document” metaphor
encourages. Note the
deficiencies of the conversation
metaphor though: it does not
cover the Twitter link economy,
or asymmetric following. These
are better understood through a
“marketplace” metaphor, which,
however, downplays the
conversational aspects.
Likewise, the metaphor that we
currently seem to be embracing
for the web is “the stream.”
The emergence of the real-time
web has finally precipitated the
need for a more dynamic
framing, and while the stream is
accessible and understandable, it
is not without its limitations. The
flow of information and our
“jumping in and out of the
stream” may actually point us in
a dangerously passive direction.
We may dam a stream, redirect it
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or harness its power for other
uses, but the stream remains a
metaphor that emphasizes
precisely our inability to control
or effectively influence or filter
it.
Such are the trade-offs in
engineering new metaphors.
Google Wave is based on a flux
metaphor. YouTube borrows a
“channel” metaphor from
television. The research project I
manage, Xerox Trails, is based
on the tricky “trail” (as in hiking)
metaphor first proposed by
Vannevar Bush in 1945.
Conclusion
Central to all these programs of
metaphor re-engineering is a
recognition that the hyperlink is
the basic building block of the
web. Our conceptualization of
the web still does not truly
reflect its non-sequential,
branching texture, created by
hyperlinks.
We still haven’t truly
understood that click and link are
as fundamental today as read and
write.
All in all, throwing off that
burden is an immensely difficult
task. It is much easier to create
technology that conforms to
dominant metaphors. What we
need to do as we enter the third
decade of the web, however, is
consider what we want the web
to be rather than awkwardly
fitting that vision into older
descriptive paradigms.
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Ethanol alternative gains ground with new plant continued from page 19

We need to finally begin

(CNET News.com) companies picked by the U.S. articulating the metaphors that
Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:40:25 PM Department of Energy's National will move us beyond the book,
Renewable Energy Laboratory and the document.
Cobalt's facility restricts water forum in 2008 as an example of Understanding the rhetoric of the
consumption by recycling water a viable renewable energy hyperlink may be the most
used in its fermentation company. Cobalt also received essential challenge we must meet
process.(Credit: Cobalt Biofuels) $25 million in Series C funding before we are able to move our
Fuel tech start-up Cobalt in October 2008 from a group of thinking forward and
Biofuels launched a California investors that included Pinnacle accommodate our digital
plant on Tuesday that will Ventures. ambitions.
produce biobutanol from forestry And Cobalt is not the only Images courtesy of IconArchive
byproducts. company looking to produce a and iStockphoto, scherbet,
Biobutanol, butanol made from low-carbon butanol from non- kickers and shulz
biomass as opposed to fossil feedstock biomass. Tags: conceptual metaphors,
fuels, already has approval for made from inedible wood and Wilson said in a statement. In August 2009, oil giant Total document metaphore,
use in fuel blends for vehicles plant waste. California Governor Arnold announced it was investing in innovation, social media
under U.S. Environmental W h i l e t h e p r o d u c t i o n o f Schwarzenegger, who clearly G e v o , a Colorado-based
Protection Agency guidelines. cellulosic ethanol--ethanol sees Cobalt as a poster child for company developing biobutanol
Cobalt and others have claimed produced from forestry or clean-tech investment in his m a d e f r o m s u g a r c a n e o r
that biobutanol has an advantage agricultural waste--is predicted s t a t e , a t t e n d e d t h e p r e s s agricultural byproducts. Though
over ethanol, which has been to increase, much of the world's conference in part to push his it's more of a research and
known to have corrosion issues ethanol is still produced from initiative to pass legislation development facility than an
in some older fuel systems and corn and grain. Many remain exempting sales tax on green actual plant, materials science
Obsessed With
pipelines and is conventionally concerned that ethanol has manufacturing equipment. giant Dupont has partnered with
used in fuel blends and in newer caused soaring food prices and In addition to making biofuel for BP on a biobutanol plant in the
the Internet: A
cars with ethanol-ready engines. shortages, since food producers cars that meets California's low U.K. And earlier this month,
Biobutanol can be used as a are forced to compete against carbon fuel standards, the Canadian start-up Syntec Biofuel
Tale From China
s t a n d a l o n e f u e l e v e n i n energy companies for grain company will provide the state announced plans to develop a By Christopher S. Stewart
(Wired Top Stories)
c o n v e n t i o n a l g a s o l i n e c a r supplies. with some much-needed jobs. biobutanol made from wood and
engines, in addition to being B i o b u t a n o l c a n a l s o b e "Cobalt shows us that what is agricultural waste in partnership Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:00:00 PM

used in gasoline and diesel fuel converted into jet fuel or used in good for the environment can w i t h t h e E n e r g y &
blends. In China's rigid,
plastics and paint products. also be good for the economy. In Environmental Research Center hypercompetitive society, the
Cobalt's c u r r e n t "We are on track to build a fact, within the next few years, at the University of North
biobutanol/gasoline blend, which commercial facility within two Cobalt has plans to build an even Dakota (UND). internet explosion represents
mixes 12 percent biobutanol with years, and we are currently larger plant that will create 1,300 Five Filters featured article: more than a disciplinary
conventional gasoline, reduces building a network of strategic p e r m a n e n t j o b s , " s a i d Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: annoyance; it is seen as an
greenhouse gas emissions by as partners in the fuels, chemicals, S c h w a r z e n e g g e r . PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, existential threat. But when Deng
much as 85 percent compared to forest products, and construction Schwarzenegger is not the only Term Extraction. Senshan's parents checked him
conventional gasoline, according i n d u s t r y t o d e p l o y o u r one singing Cobalt's praises. into an internet-addiction camp
to Cobalt company statistics. in rural China, they expected a
technology at the next scale," The Mountain View, Calif.- cure — not a tragedy.
Biobutanol may have another Cobalt Biofuels CEO Rick based company was one of 34
advantage over ethanol. It can be
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Pat Robertson: Haiti
2009 PC shipments inch into positive territory Paid for Making a
(CNET News.com) confident for to move into a new
refresh cycle ... Most of the
Satanic Pact
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:54:00 PM
decision makers at companies (Little Green Footballs)
The PC industry ended 2009 on look for three to four quarters of Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:29:44 PM
a positive note. sustained growth. That puts us in
Worldwide shipments for 2009 the second half of 2010 before Pat Robertson has never met a
were up 2.3 percent compared to we see progress." disaster, natural or otherwise,
2008, according to the IDC In the meantime, the year end that he couldn’t interpret as
Quarterly PC Tracker Report report card for the Top 5 divine retribution from a
released Wednesday. Several manufacturers in the world was vengeful deity, but his latest
months ago, ending the year with almost all positive--with the bizarre fantasy is a real corker:
any shipment growth at all was exception of Dell, none saw Haiti deserved that earthquake,
looking unlikely. But after negative shipment growth to because they made a deal with
showing signs of life in the third round out 2009. In order, the Horned One. His Nibs. True
quarter, followed by a healthy Hewlett-Packard saw shipments story.[Video]
fourth quarter, it appears that PC increase 10.4 percent, Dell was “Something happened a long
business is making a comeback. down 9.4 percent, Acer up 22.3 time ago in Haiti, and people
Sales of mini notebooks in the percent, Lenovo, 13.8 percent, might not want to talk about it,”
U.S. helped push worldwide and Toshiba up 15.7 percent. he said. “They were under the
sales up for 2009.(Credit: Dell) "In a sense, the U.S. consumer purchased, the margins on them In the U.S. only, there was a heel of the French … and they
A combination of holiday has come again to save the are very thin. Though retailers s i m i l a r s t o r y r e g a r d i n g got together and swore a pact to
shopping, pent-up demand, and quarter," he said Wednesday. and manufacturers are selling manufacturers' marketshare: the devil. They said, ‘We will
good reviews of Windows 7 "And by doing so, they've also more, they're selling them for everyone gained except Dell. HP serve you if you’ll get us free
have led to 15.2-percent growth lifted the worldwide market, less. inched up to 26.9 percent of PCs from the French.’
for worldwide shipments during (which) was anticipated to grow T h e o t h e r p r o b l e m : P C shipped for the year, Dell “True story. And the devil said,
the fourth quarter compared to 11.3 percent, but grew 15.2 manufacturers are still waiting dropped slightly to 24.5 percent, ‘OK, it’s a deal,’” Robertson
the same quarter a year ago. percent." for corporate IT departments Acer grabbed 11.3 percent, said. “Ever since, they have been
The U.S. market saw even better But there's a flip side to many start buying computers again. Apple saw a slight increase to 8 cursed by one thing after
growth: shipments were up 24 U.S. shoppers picking up laptops When that will be though is still percent, and Toshiba moved to another.”
percent during the fourth quarter, near the end of the year during up in the air. 7.7 percent share.
to 20.7 million units. And much what are still tough economic "Businesses and governments Five Filters featured article:
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Daoud. t h o u g h m a n y a r e b e i n g economy for them to feel

Rhett & Link Turn 'Local Commercials' Into Internet Love

By Brendan Seibel (Wired Top The DIY comedic filmmakers advertising spots that ape the low The resulting videos go viral in a
Stories) hook up with small-town - b u d g e t c h a r m o f l o c a l big way.
businesses, crafting clever television's penny-ante pitchmen.
22 Tech/ TV/
Microsoft brings kids developer tool to the PC
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:20:08 PM
Microsoft is bringing its Kodu
development tool from the Xbox
to the PC.(Credit: Microsoft)
Microsoft researcher Matt
MacLaurin came up for the idea
for Kodu in his kitchen in the fall
of 2006, noticing the way his
three-year-old daughter watched
her mom browse away on
Facebook. MacLaurin noticed
how different. While his
Commodore Pet was like a lump
of clay that he could mold by
writing software in Basic, his
daughter's generation were using
computers whose functions were
already set in stone.
So he set about creating a new
developer language that would
appeal to the current generation
of kids. He settled on one that
would work with just a game
controller, using basic rules to do
things like move an apple across
the screen.
A few months later, the idea was
working code. MacLaurin had
created Boku, an all-new
programming language that
could be run on an Xbox using
Stephen Colbert is one of the Faces of America
By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:02:00 PM
PBS has a new documentary
series debuting on February 10
titled Faces of America. Henry
only the console's controller to
craft basic logic. MacLaurin
showed it at the 2007 TechFest
internal science fair and later that
year at an emerging technology
conference.
"That's just in our DNA,"
MacLaurin said. "We don't really
trust something until it is on our
screen."
Kodu, the final name for Boku,
got its big-time debut in 2009,
Louis Gates Jr. (he of the famous
"beer summit" at the White
House last year) interviews many
celebrities about their family
history, including Stephen
Colbert, Eva Longoria Parker,
when Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer showed the program, as
part of his keynote at the
Consumer Electronics Show in
Las Vegas.
Now, Microsoft is bringing
Kodu to the PC.
MacLaurin said that the
company had to do a fair amount
of work to make Kodu work with
a mouse as opposed to the
controller. Most of that work is
Malcolm Gladwell, and Mario
Batali. Here are three clips where
Colbert (hard T) talks about his
family.
Continue reading Stephen
Colbert is one of the Faces of
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to use it without needing any
special hardware.
The software has also become
popular in his own home, where
he and his daughter work on
Kodu tasks together.
"We use it together," he said,
noting that at 5, his daughter is
still younger than the 9-year-old
age at which kids really start
gravitating to Kodu. What he
likes, though, is the logic skills it
teaches her and the kinds of
questions it creates in her mind.
"It's an opportunity to have
conversations you don't really
have in other settings,"
MacLaurin said.
MacLaurin, who worked at
Apple for five years, left after
done, he said, but the company is working on the Newton to form
releasing the PC version of Kodu his own company and joined
as a technology preview to get M i c r o s o f t i n 2 0 0 3 . A f t e r
more feedback before declaring spending most of his tenure in
the release final. Microsoft's research labs, he
Already in its current form, recently moved to become part
Kodu has found its way into 200 of Lili Cheng's Fuse Labs
schools and there have been project.
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Interior Secretary sets deadline for Cape Wind
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:46:00 PM
Updated at 2:30 p.m. PT with
corrected time line.
Ken Salazar, secretary of the
Department of the Interior, on
Wednesday said a final decision
on the controversial Cape Wind
proposal will be made by the end
of April.
Salazar met with interested
parties on Wednesday in
Washington to hear arguments
for and against the offshore wind
project, which would be first
offshore wind installation in the
U.S. Following the three
meetings, there is now a formal
process for deciding whether the
Cape Wind project will be
approved or rejected, which will
include public comments until
February 13, followed by a final
decision.
The Interior Department needs
to balance between two national
goals--increasing renewable
energy output and historic
preservation, Salazar said during
a press conference following the
meetings.
The location of the proposed
130-turbine wind farm is
Nantucket Sound, which earlier
this month was ruled eligible for
listing in the National Register of
Historic Places because of the
spiritual attachment of local
Native American tribes to the
area.
Location of proposed offshore
wind farm.(Credit: Cape Wind)
Either the parties could agree to
a memorandum of understanding
to "address the adverse impact
and provide mitigation," Salazar
said. Or, formal consultations
between parties will be cut off
and a final decision will be made
by the Interior Department.
"I think nine years after an
application was filed for a
permit, to have it continuing to
face a future of uncertainty is
bad for everybody involved," he
said. The project would cost
more than $1 billion to develop
and provide enough electricity to
supply about 70 percent of Cape
Cod's needs.
Clean-energy advocates, native
groups, and local government
officials expressed their
positions, which Salazar said
were diametrically opposed.
But he did indicate that there
was room for compromise by
confining the area of the
proposed turbines or decreasing
the number of turbines. Moving
the site of the proposed wind
farm to the south of Nantucket
Island, as suggested by the main
local opposition group and native
Indian representatives, would
require a completely new
application, he said.
Tech/ TV/ Entertainment/
The fate of Cape Wind will not
define how the offshore wind
industry develops along the
Atlantic, which Salazar said will
be "successful and robust."
There is concern among wind
developers that listing a body of
water like the Nantucket Sound
under the Register of Historic
Places will have a chilling effect
on the development of offshore
wind, something Salazar said he
will consider in his final
decision.
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Sneak Peek: Matt
Leblanc playing
himself in Episodes
By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:32:00 PM
So where has Matt Leblanc been
since Joey left the air? I'm not
sure, but he has a new show
coming up on Showtime that has
an interesting premise and could
become one of those clever,
quirky cable comedies that
everyone tells you to watch. In it
he plays Matt Leblanc, who has
to audition to play, well, Matt
Leblanc in a new series for
Showtime.
Here's a clip that explains a bit
more. Looks like Leblanc is
having a fun time spoofing
himself.
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Sizzlin' New Pics: The
Glammed-Up Gals of
'Desperate Housewives'
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:02:00 PM
Take a stroll down Wisteria
Lane and get an eyeful of all the
glamorous gals of "Desperate
Housewives" rocking the road.
Tune in to "Desperate
Housewives" Sunday nights at 9
p.m. to see all the sex, scandals
and sordid secrets!
24 Tech/ TV/ Economy/ Media/
With RealNetworks' influence waning, CEO
departs
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:30:00 PM
Rob Glaser built RealNetworks
into a digital media power but
the company's influence has
waned.(Credit: Greg
Sandoval/CNET )
Rob Glaser, the CEO of
software company
RealNetworks, has stepped down
according to a statement released
by the company Wednesday.
"After nearly 16 years, I've
decided it's time for me to step
away from day-to-day
operations," Glaser said in the
statement.
Real said Glaser will remain at
the company as chairman and
appointed Robert Kimball as
president and acting chief
executive officer. The
announcement comes a day after
Real announced that John
Giamatteo, the company's chief
operating officer had resigned.
Glaser jumped from Microsoft
after spending 10 years working
for CEO Bill Gates to form
RealNetworks. He built the
company's proprietary software
formats, RealAudio and
RealVideo into powerhouses. In
the early days of the Web, Real
was nearly synonymous with
Tech rivals fail to back Google
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
promote Rhapsody, Real's
subscription music service on the
MSN network. While that deal
may have proved beneficial for
Real, some of other Glaser's
legal pursuits haven't.
In 2008, Real launched a legal
campaign against the major film
studios when it became apparent
they were going to sue Real.
Hollywood wanted to prevent
Real from selling RealDVD,
claiming the DVD-copying
software violated copyright law
and contractual agreements.
Last year, U.S. District Judge
Marilyn Patel placed a
preliminary injunction on
RealDVD sales, forcing Real to
wait until the decision can be
settled by a jury. Her decision
was a blow to Real because the
company had also planned to
online video and audio. influence has been on the wane launch a new DVD-player that
But for some reason, Real was every since. also recorded and stored digital
eclipsed by MP3 and other Throughout Glaser's technology film copies.
f o r m a t s i n m u s i c a n d t h e career he built a reputation for Whether Real plans to pursue
company appeared to sit on its never backing down from a fight, the costly and legal campaign is
heels when the video boom even when it may have made unclear.
erupted on the Web in 2006. sense. Five Filters featured article:
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Richard Simmons gets
way too close for
William Shatner's liking
By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:30:00 PM
People seem to forget that
there's a ninth hour of Today,
hosted by Kathie Lee Gifford
and Hoda Kotb. But maybe you
should watch, because something
odd seems to happen on the
show every other day. This clip
shows Richard Simmons and
William Shatner getting, um,
chummy on a couch.
Maybe Shatner should have
gotten out a fire extinguisher.
[via PopEater]
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Glasses Tattoo Dude Was Shilling Who's Behind The False

For Ray-Ban [VIDEO]
By Brenna Ehrlich
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:20:00 PM
A metal-drenched video of a
man getting a tattoo of
sunglasses on his face has been
making the rounds these past few
days. Turns out, Matthew — the
tatted-out man in question —
was hawking Ray-Bans.
Roughly two years ago, Ray-
Ban launched a campaign to
promote its products via social
media. Remember this awesome
video: Sunglass Catch?
We’ve seen a lot of attention-
grabbing viral campaigns in
recent months, and like past semi
-racy maneuvers, this one seems
to have struck a chord with
viewers. The consensus seems to
be: This guy is an idiot. Check
out some of the comments from
the Never Hide video site:
“Good luck getting a job in the
future. If you walked into my
office I would laugh and send
you on your way.”
“This will be hilarious to him for
a while, then the regret will set in
the first day he wakes up and
looks in the mirror and doesn’t
laugh.”
“This is how you get your 15
minutes of fame.”
And the official Facebook page:
“I can’t believe someone would
be so stupid. Um…did you ever
think about getting a job. Good
luck working minimum wage
stocking shelves in the back of
some store at night. Only one
you will ever get. Idiot.”
“Just wait til he wants a different
frame design.”
“How can somebody be that
stupid to ruin his natural face
appearance…”
People seem to mighty
concerned with Matthew’s
ability to find gainful
employment.
Although tattoos have become
much more common nowadays
(hell, The New York Times
reported a year ago that they
were getting mainstream), and
tattoo/advertisements are also
nothing new, the choice to get
shades etched on his face seems
like a questionable life decision
on Matthew’s part.
In fact, the whole ordeal leaves
us wondering: Just how far is
someone willing to go for a taste
of being Internet famous? Check
out the video, and Matthew’s
Flickr stream, for more:
[via Media Bistro, Agency Spy]
Tags: ad, business, humor,
money, ray ban, viral video
Rumors That Facebook
Might Start Charging?
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) of rumors have been spreading
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:10:00 PM about Facebook planning to
charge, resulting in huge protest
Way back when Friendster was groups in Facebook, and the
the super hot social networking company needing to make a
startup with an unworkable public denial of any plans to
business model, there was charge. In Facebook's case, this
suddenly a rush of rumors that is even more believable because
the company was going to start the company claims that it's
charging for use. Even though already profitable from existing
the company never suggested ad sales. And, knowing how
plans to charge, there was an Facebook operates, I can't see
outcry among users -- and I a n y o n e t h e r e s e r i o u s l y
remember getting messages from considering charging for use.
people threatening to boycott T h e y k n o w t h e i d e a i s
Friendster if it ever did charge. preposterous and would destroy
In fact, many people started the site.
suggesting alternatives... with So the only thing I'm wondering
MySpace being a key one. It is who kicked off these rumors?
wasn't long after this episode that Is it another social network? Is it
many people really did start MySpace again trying to regain
migrating over to MySpace. relevance? Or was it really just
Later on there were reports that another malware scam to get
the "rumors" about Friendster people to click on unsafe links,
charging were actually started that then resulted in a misguided
(and then spread) by MySpace panic?
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trying to pull the same trick with
Facebook. Apparently a bunch

Tom Brady Says Family Doesn't Affect Football

(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 10:30:00 AM
New England Patriots
quarterback Tom Brady chatted
about the family he's built with
wife Gisele Bündchen and how
he manages to keep his personal
life off the football field.
"Hopefully, because I got
married, that doesn't affect how I
play quarterback," Brady said
during his weekly radio
interview with the Dennis &
Callahan show on WEEI Sports
Radio.
Brady wed Bündchen last year
and welcomed a baby son named
Benjamin this past December. "I
think my life is focused. I
prioritized what's important to
me, that's my family and my
football career," Brady explains.
"There's nothing other than that."
26 Tech/ Popular News/
Evernote's CEO: 5k new users a day,
but long-term retention is a problem
By Mike Schramm (The over half of their two million
Unofficial Apple Weblog users are using the iPhone app [
(TUAW)) iTunes link]. As Libin says, the
Submitted at 1/13/2010 3:30:00 PM app is "very good" -- it's easy to
use (and free), the iPhone's
Filed under: Software, Internet camera makes picking up even
T o o l s , D e v e l o p e r , i P h o n e real-life scraps of information
Mashable's Ben Parr sat down at super easy, and Evernote is
CES with Phil Libin, CEO of designed to share information
Evernote, which is not only a back to your Mac. Libin says
TUAW favorite, but acts as your that "most" of the iPhone users
"external brain," saving little do access their information back
clips and bits of information both on other PCs.
collectible from and accessible Libin also talks about power
by any device you happen to users of the service -- there's one
have with you. We love the app, in the system that has over
a n d w h i l e i t i s n ' t a M a c 80,000 notes, though due to
exclusive, there are both Mac privacy, Libin doesn't share what
a n d i P h o n e v e r s i o n s , a n d they're keeping in there. And
apparently they're doing very apparently one issue they're
well. Libin tells us in the video d e a l i n g w i t h i s l o n g - t e r m
that not only are they picking up retention. I can identify with that
five thousand users a day (!), but -- while Evernote is a great
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NY Police Destroy Counterfeit
Clothes Rather Than Giving
Them To The Homeless
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Not surprisingly, a lawyer
Submitted at 1/13/2010 9:23:29 AM representing various clothing
designers was quite happy with
Last week there was a big the news, saying that they don't
controversy over the fact that want those clothes "back on the
some stores in NY were caught street," which suggests that the
destroying unsold garments designers may have pushed for
rather than donating them to the police to destroy the clothes
charities. After people got upset, rather than help the needy. Of
the main store in question, H&M course, it's worth pointing out --
promised that this wouldn't yet again -- the recent study that
happen again. This week we've showed most people are not
got a related, but somewhat fooled by counterfeits, and they
different story, as the NY Police rarely represent a "lost sale." In
have admitted to shredding and fact, many counterfeit purchases
burning the counterfeit clothes lead to real purchases later on.
service, it's tough to remember they've confiscated, rather than So the idea that they act as a
that you can use it to remember giving them to the homeless, as "substitute" or somehow "harm"
things, and for that reason I think had always been done in the past. a brand is not actually borne out
that even with two million users, When asked to explain why, the by the research. And, of course,
it's still very underrated. Libin police claimed "no one asked" some companies have learned
sounds like he's on top of things, for the confiscated clothing -- but that there are ways to embrace
though -- he promises that many charities insist they had, in counterfeiting to their own
they're always working on not fact, made many requests for the advantage, as a form of price
only helping users figure out clothing. Apparently, the differentiation.
how to use the service, but also destruction is being felt at Permalink| Comments| Email
in polishing it and making it clothing banks, who say they This Story
even easier and simpler. have many fewer clothes on hand
TUAW Evernote's CEO: 5k new this year than in the past.
users a day, but long-term
retention is a problem originally Sarah Palin's Fox News debut
appeared on The Unofficial (Holy Kaw!) Seth Godin may have it right
Apple Weblog (TUAW) on about not allowing comments on
Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:30:00 EST. Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:29:00 PM his blog.
Please see our terms for use of This is Sarah Palin’s debut on More on politics.
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Red Cross Raises $800,000+

for Haiti Through Text
Message Campaign
By Jennifer Van Grove
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:37:06 PM

We’ve just confirmed that the

Red Cross has already raised
more than $800,000 for Haiti
through their $10 text message
donation initiative (text “Haiti”
Rumor: Intel's Core i5 to show up in to 90999), which is backed by
the United States State
immediately set up the simplest
donation method possible, but its

MacBook Pros this month Department.

Susan Watson, director of
social media presence and
outreach, when combined with
the State Department’s
By Steven Sande (The processors. Existing MacBook battery life. While no date has marketing and visibility for the
Unofficial Apple Weblog Pro models use Intel's Core 2 been announced by Apple for the Red Cross, tells us that they’re involvement, has turned this into
(TUAW)) Duo processors. release of a new MacBook Pro, getting reports every half hour a viral funding initiative, topping
A loose translation of the there's a possibility that such a with the latest donation numbers, Twitter trends and inspiring
Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:00:00 PM
pertinent section of the email device could be announced at the and the current total — as of action. The Red Cross is also
Filed under: Hardware, Rumors, shown above says: rumored January 27th media 4:30 p.m. EST — is greater than contributing an initial$1 million
Macbook Pro Spanish website January prize draw: Win a event. $800,000 for text message from the International Response
faq-mac.com had an interesting MacBook Pro [via The Mac Observer] donations alone. Watson says, Fund.
tidbit this morning. As seen in Increase sales this month and TUAW Rumor: Intel's Core i5 “The needs are so tremendous in If you want to help the cause
the screenshot from the site, an have two opportunities to win a to show up in MacBook Pros this Haiti, and we are honored that you can text “Haiti” to 90999 to
Intel Retail Edge program email MacBook Pro equipped with the month originally appeared on people continue to give to the send a $10 donation to the Red
s h o w e d a g i v e a w a y f o r a accelerated response offered by The Unofficial Apple Weblog American Red Cross. Raising Cross. There’s also this
MacBook Pro. While that's not the Intel Core i5 processor. A (TUAW) on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 this amount of money, $10 at collection of organizations that
unusual -- a MacBook Pro makes MacBook Pro with a Core i5 16:00:00 EST. Please see our time, is a true testament to the are accepting donations online.
a great prize for any contest -- p r o c e s s o r w o u l d h a v e terms for use of feeds. American spirit.” Tags: donation, Earthquake,
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equipped with Intel Core i5 model, while not reducing commended. Not only did it

General Motors Cuts Ties with Tiger Woods

(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 11:25:00 AM
General Motors has reportedly
ended its relationship with Tiger
Woods.
People.com reports that the
company's endorsement contract
with the golf star ended in 2008,
but his driving deal was
extended through Decemeber 31,
2009. According to the mag,
Woods will no longer be
permitted to drive GM cars for
free.
Gatorade, Tag Heuer, Accenture
and AT&T have also cut ties
with Woods in the wake of the
scandal surrounding his alleged
marital infidelity.
28 Tech/
Flash on the iPhone, in demo form
By Erica Sadun (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 1/13/2010 5:30:00 PM
Filed under: Software, iPhone
Flash has finally made its way to
the iPhone, with the help of
some sneaky developers. The
open source Gordon project,
hosted over at github, has
provided a JavaScript-powered
Flash runtime. With it, you can
actually load and view Flash's
.swf files, even on the iPhone's
Mobile Safari browser. I gave it
a try earlier today and was
delighted to find that several
Flash demos ran fine on my
3GS, no jailbreaking or other
installation necessary.
Admittedly, this is a very
preliminary build, that supports
just these SWF tags. Also, to
make this work, Flash
developers will need to
encapsulate the SWF into an
HTML wrapper, importing the
Gordon JavaScript source and
then loading the swf, as shown
here. I am not a Flash expert by
any means, but this seems like a
pretty cool development for any
iPhone enthusiasts who would be
interested in seeing the platform
support that technology. At this
point, there's not much to show
for it besides a few demos (and
who knows what Apple will
think about this), but at least
there's a currently viable way to
run and view Flash on the
iPhone.
Thanks, August Joki
TUAW Flash on the iPhone, in
demo form originally appeared
on The Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW) on Wed, 13 Jan 2010
17:30:00 EST. Please see our
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UK Ministers 'Concede' Some Ridiculous
Points in Digital Economy Bill In Attempt
To Get Other Ridiculous Measures
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Section 17 provision.
Submitted at 1/13/2010 11:51:00 AM Of course, the concessions
appear to be rather minor, and
When Peter Mandelson's Digital my more cynical view is that
E c o n o m y B i l l w a s f i r s t they knew they were going to do
announced, many people were so this all along. The idea is
shocked by the provision that simple. Introduce one section
would let Mandelson or his that's even more ridiculous and
successor change copyright law outrageous than the sections you
at will, with no Parliamentary really want passed, and then let
approval, that they started all the complaints and press
focusing on that, rather than the coverage focus on that more
expected problem with the bill, ridiculous section. Then, after
like the fact that it could allow people get all worked up about it,
people to be kicked offline "concede" just a little bit, and
without a conviction. There has notice that most people no longer
been a lot of pushback from have the energy to fight about
some politicians in the UK and the other provisions.
various amendments proposed to Permalink| Comments| Email
fix the bill. And now it looks This Story
like the gov't has agreed to make
some changes to the infamous

If Banning The Internet For Sex Offenders Is Unfair, Is

Banning The Internet For Copyright Infringers Fair?
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 8:12:00 AM
For many years we've
questioned the logic of courts
banning people from the internet
for committing some sort of
internet crime (mostly commonly
sexual offenses online). Many
courts have decided that it's
ridiculous to ban people from the
internet in an era when the
internet has become so integral
to our lives and our jobs. And,
as more content and services
move to being online only, it
gets even sillier. If you're
banned from the internet can you
use a Kindle? What about a
VoIP phone? It gets confusing
fast. Luckily it looks like yet
another court has thrown out an
internet ban on a sex offender as
draconian and a potential
violation of the guy's free speech
and association rights.
While there's been some split in
the courts, it looks like many are
starting to question such bans,
given how ubiquitous the
internet has become. And yet...
just as this is happening, we have
the entertainment industry
pushing hard to kick people off
the internet for a small number
of accusations (not convictions)
for file sharing. Seeing as the
courts are already claiming that
internet bans -- even for online
sex offenders -- is too draconian,
how can anyone justify an
internet ban as being a fair and
equitable "punishment" for being
accused (not convicted) of
sharing some music?
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Happy 53rd anniversary,
Game Developers' I’m With COCO: Conan disk-shaped toy that
Conference to include O’Brien Tribute Takes
people throw at each
other!
iPhone Games Summit track By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
By Megan Lavey (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
Over Facebook Submitted at 1/13/2010 5:00:00 PM

By Jennifer Van Grove I don't think I've thrown a

(TUAW)) (Mashable!)
Frisbee in 25 years. No surprise,
Submitted at 1/13/2010 3:00:00 PM Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:21:14 PM of course. I don't belong to a
Frisbee club, I don't like the
Filed under: Gaming, Other In light of NBC’s blunderous beach, and there aren't many
Events, iPhone Macworld reports maneuvers, its decision to push reasons for a writer to throw a
that the 2010 Game Developers' back The Tonight Show, and Frisbee around. But today is the
Conference will include an 8- Conan O’Brien’s public 53rd anniversary of the invention
class track on iPhone games. The statement on the matter, Conan of the Frisbee, so I thought I'd
iPhone Games Summit, which fans are using social media communal display of solidarity, post this commercial for the disk
takes place over two days, avatars to get their point across. which is becoming quite the from the 1960s.
replaces an older format where see how these are attended and In fact, one man’s I’m With trend on Facebook and other Bonus: includes hula hoops!
panels on the iPhone were mixed what changes they make next COCO image is speaking for social networks. TMZ reports Filed under: Video,
in with those on gaming for other time around as well. Facebook denizens everywhere. that even people who work for Commercials, Reality-Free
mobile platforms or independent T h e G a m e D e v e l o p e r s ' Mike Mitchell created an image, NBC and The Tonight Show are Permalink| Email this| |
development. Conference will be held March 9 along with an accompanying participating in the avatar- C o m m e n t s
Classes appear to be aimed -13 at the Moscone Center in San website and Facebook Page, that changing movement. Apparently
toward niche development ("A Francisco. celebrates Conan and his widely even Conan O’Brien himself has
Big Dash of Success: How to TUAW Game Developers' discussed hair. Now Facebookers seen the image that pays homage
Capture the Female iPhone Conference to include iPhone are showing their support for the to him and his vibrant hair.
Gamer") and utilizing social Games Summit track originally l a t e - n i g h t f u n n y m a n b y So are you with COCO?
networking and multiplayer appeared on The Unofficial changing their pictures to the Tags: conan, conan o'brien,
capabilities for iPhone games. Apple Weblog (TUAW) on COCO image. facebook, tv
The two most interesting classes Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:00:00 EST. Mitchell encourages this
to me is a case study of one Please see our terms for use of
company's year in the App Store feeds.
and a class aimed at covering the Read| Permalink| Email this|
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'Dexter' Star Michael C. Hall Reveals
contract. Given that this is their
first year, it'll be interesting to Cancer Diagnosis
(ETonline - Breaking News) The Associated Press reports the AP that Hall's cancer is in
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:37:00 PM that Hall, 38, says he was complete remission and his
d i a g n o s e d w i t h H o d g k i n ' s treatment is ongoing.
"Dexter" star Michael C. Hall is lymphoma, a condition he calls
reportedly being treated for "treatable and curable."
cancer. A spokesperson for the star tells
30 Tech/ Politics/ Popular News/ E-reader News Edition

Internet Recovery? Grab the Cheetos, it's Beautiful time

Zillow to IPO in 2011
By Ben Parr (Mashable!)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:11:55 PM
Zillow, one of the world’s
largest real estate websites, could
opt for an IPO as early as next
year. It’s a dramatic change
from a year ago, when the
recession pushed venture capital
and technology IPOs to their
lowest levels in years.
In an interview with
BusinessWeek, Zillow COO
Spencer Rascoff stated that
Zillow is looking not only to go
public in 2011, but is seeking
ways to improve its valuation by
courting new investors and
solidifying itself as the world’s
“fastest-growing real estate site.”
Zillow still faces a major
challenge though: It’s still not
time for TUAW TV
Live (5 PM ET)
By Steven Sande (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:45:00 PM
Filed under: Humor, Video,
profitable. Still, we expect Odds and ends Today marks the
Zillow to do well in IPO. It has fourth episode of TUAW TV
a recognized and fast-growing Live, our regular Wednesday
brand that keeps innovating. Ustream broadcast featuring
Zillow’s IPO performance could news, reviews, and discussion of
be a strong indicator for how eveything Apple.
other Internet companies will Join TUAW lead blogger Steve
fare in the recovering market, Sande in the chat by watching
most notably Facebook. the live stream in the window
Tags: business, ipo, market, below (starts at 5 PM ET, 2 PM
stock market, zillow PT), then using the chat tool to
add your voice to the chorus of
Mac and iPhone goodness. You
can also view the show by
visiting http://ustream.tv/tuaw.
Past episodes are available for
viewing at the same location on
Ustream.
TUAW Grab the Cheetos, it's
time for TUAW TV Live (5 PM
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lapse video of
Northern Lights
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:26:13 PM
Forget “Jersey Shore,”
sometimes nature provides all
the entertainment we need.
National Geographic traveled to
Norway and captured the
stunning beauty of the Northern
Lights. The breathtaking video
was shot over the course of one
night and squished down to four
and a half minutes for your
viewing pleasure.
Get all the most interesting news
from National Geographic.
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Martian Tendrils
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 1/12/2010 7:10:24 PM
A stunning image of the sand
dunes near the North Pole of
Mars, from the Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter’s
HiRISE camera:
Phil Plait explains what you’re
seeing:
But what are those weird tendril
thingies? the sand. When it’s all done, you the act! In this image, a closeup
In the Martian winter, carbon get those feathery tendrils. Note of a region just to the left of
dioxide freezes out of the air that at the tendril tips, you see center of the big image, you can
(and you thought it was cold blotches of red; that’s probably actually see the cloud of dust
where you are). In the summer, from the lighter dust billowing a from an avalanche as it occurs.
that CO2 sublimates; that is, bit before settling down. Oh, baby. The cloud is only a
turns directly from a solid to a Now, you might think I’m few dozen meters across, and
gas. When that happens the sand making this all up. How do we can’t be more than a few seconds
gets disturbed, and falls down know this stuff is flowing old.
the slopes in little channels, the bottom. But this disturbs the downhill like that? Ah, because
which spreads out when it hits red dust, too, which flows with in this picture we’ve caught it in
E-reader News Edition Tech Tips/ 31

Spice Up Your Sandwich Routine to

Make Brown Bagging It More
Appealing [Food Hacks]
By Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:00:00 PM

Everyone knows that packing

your own lunch is an effective
way to save money and eat
healthier food, but it certain can
get a bit predictable. Mix things
up with these tips.
Photo by Steven de Polo.
Over at the money and frugality-
centered blog Wise Bread
they've put together a list of
ideas for increasing the appeal of
the brown bag lunch, especially
when you're fond of packing
sandwiches. They echo some of
the topics we shared with you
during Food Week earlier this
year in our guide to making your
brown bag lunch more appealing
like using interesting condiments
and add-ons:
These are the little nuggets of
yum that help take your
sandwich from hum-drum to
hubba-hubba. One of my favorite
items is those bulk jars of banana
pepper rings you can purchase in
the bulk aisle at Walmart. For
under five dollars you've got a
bulk supply of a zippy little
sandwich add-on that won't spoil
quickly like certain produce
items (cough - tomatoes). Other
ideas include basil leaves, sliced
bulk pickles, mixed organic
spring greens, sprouts, and
French-fried onions.
Pre-cooked bacon (a main
ingredient in BLT sandwiches) is
a flavorful accent in other
sandwiches and upgrades them
affordably to the status of "club."
For around eight dollars at my
local warehouse store, I can
purchase a bulk bag of pre-
cooked bacon that equates to
four pounds of the raw
equivalent. Since I can't buy
uncooked bacon for two bucks a
pound unless it's on a major sale
and would have to deal with the
stress of cooking it as well, I
consider this a major bargain.
They also cover using spreads,
mixing up the content of the
sandwich, and making sure not
to neglect side dishes and
preparation tips. Check out the
whole article for more tricks on
turning your daily sandwich
from something that resembles a
sad elementary school ham
sandwich into a zesty deli
offering. Have your own
sandwich tips? Let's hear about it
in the comments. Sex Up Your
Sandwich: Ideas for Budget
Conscious Brown
Baggers[WiseBread]
The ChoKolate Linux
Desktop [Featured
Desktop]
By The How-To Geek • Custom conky configuration
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:00:00 PM
Impressive job, naaamo2004!
Want to see your own Linux
Reader naaamo2004's Linux desktop featured here? Read up
desktop sports a chocolate on how to customize Conky for
colored theme that is slick, ambient Linux productivity, and
polished, and beautiful, with an t h e n p o s t y o u r p r o d u c t i v e
impressive Firefox theme to desktop over in the Lifehacker
match. Desktop Show and Tell Flickr
The desktop is a combination of: G r o u p c o m p l e t e w i t h a
• Kubuntu with the Plasma description of the programs and
"aya" Theme tweaks you used (and preferably
• Custom start page for Firefox links as well!), and we just might
• Custom wp, qtcurve setup, feature it here. The ChoKolate
colour scheme, deKorator Linux Desktop[Flickr]
• Icons are ffw from gnome-look
32 Tech Tips/ Tech News/
Real Estate Search for iPhone Helps TechStars Boulder Now
You Find Your Dream Home by
Location [Downloads]
By Lisa Hoover (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:00:00 PM
iPhone/iPod touch only: The
next time you're driving around a
nice neighborhood and wonder if
there are any homes for sale in
your price range, whip out your
iPhone and check with
Realtor.com to find out.
This nifty app for the iPhone
and iPod touch taps directly into
the listings at Realtor.com to
give you all kinds on information
on nearby homes for sale. You
can search by town, state, zip
code, price, or the amenities
you're looking for. You can even
search by Multiple Listing
Service (MLS) number assigned
to a specific property if you
happen to know it.
The app also checks your
location and lets you know about
any open houses going on in the
area so you can scope houses
from the inside out. If you want
to know everything going on in
the housing market in your area,
save your searches and
Realtor.com will email you every
time there's an open house or
new listing. Be advised, the app
Accepting Applications For
Summer Mentorship Program
updates every 15 minutes, so you
may get a lot of alerts if you're
searching a major metropolitan
area.
Each listing contains tons of
information about the home for
sale, including the asking price,
property details, agent
information, and pictures if there
are any. You can view the
property on a map, email it to
someone else, and even contact
the listing agent, all without
leaving the app.
E-reader News Edition
By Chris Cameron
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:30:00 PM
If you procrastinated on
applying for TechStars Boston
and missed Monday night's
deadline but still want to attend a
TechStars event, their summer
six of the 10 companies from the
program in Boulder, Colorado is
2009 Boulder class closed
now accepting applications.
investment deals with venture
TechStars is a highly
capital firms.
competitive funding and
One disadvantage Boulder
mentoring program based in
applicants face is that any
Boston, Boulder and Seattle that
unselected applications from the
helps young startups jump-start
Boston program are
their businesses. Their
automatically rolled over into the
impressive list of over 50
Boulder applications, making the
mentors includes Wordpress
selection more competitive. The
founder Matt Mullenweg,
same thing will happen in
venture capitalist Fred Wilson
If you're in the market for a new Seattle, which means Seattle
and Foundry Group director
home, or just want to daydream applicants will be ultimately
Brad Feld.
about what's out there, then this vying for spots against the
Sponsor
app is a good start. It's a handy Boston and Boulder rejects.
This summer's program will be
way to carry around a The deadline to apply for this
the fourth class of companies to
comprehensive overview of the summer's Boulder program is
go through the Boulder program,
housing market right in your Monday, March 22 at midnight
and if last year's class is any
pocket or purse. Realtor.com Mountain Standard Time. Seattle
example of how things will go
iPhone Real Estate App[iTunes applications open the following
this year, big possibilities await
App Store] day.
applicants. TechStars founder
Photo by Flickr user Let Ideas
and CEO David Cohen
Compete. Discuss
announced last November that
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Make Your Own Snack Packs to
Help Lose Weight [Diet Hacks]
By Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:30:00 PM
Even if you've hacked out some
less-than-healthy food from your
diet, it's still possible to over do
it with healthy food. Use this
simple hack to help control your
portions.
Over at the parent-centric blog
Parent Hacks they shared a really
handy hack for parents with
small children: use Ziploc bags
and small Tupperware containers
to create single-serving portions
of snacks that are easy for kids to
open and that help teach them
portion control and keep them
from eating the whole box of
snacks.
Little kids aren't the only ones
that can use the help of a little
portion control education. Eating
the proper amount of food is as
important as eating good
food—it's just as easy to pack on
weight eating too many almonds
More ex-Friends news: ABC picks up Matthew Perry's show
By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 3:30:00 PM
Earlier today we showed you a
clip from Matt Leblanc's new
Showtime series Episodes. His
old Friends friend Matthew Perry
was supposed to have a show on
Showtime too called The End of
Tech Tips/ Tech News/ TV/ 33
Google Gained Ground
on Baidu in 2009
By Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 11:23:00 AM
Whatever Google's reason for
for just over 1% of China's
threatening to leave China, the
search engine market.
latest numbers from StatCounter,
While estimates put Google's
a free online stat service, show
projected 2010 income from
that it certainly isn't for lack of
business in China at around 2%
opportunity. Google has been
of the company's entire revenue,
steadily gaining ground on
the long-term implications of
China's premier search service,
pulling out of the country are
Baidu, since last August.
much larger.
Sponsor
If any company should just give
According to StatCounter,
up the ghost and get out of China
Google held just 28% of China's
before making any more PR (and
search market back in August
as it is eating too many chicken access to just-the-right-size and since has climbed to nearly human rights) gaffes, maybe it's
nuggets. If you've resolved this snacks in your fridge and pantry. 43%. That's a 15-percentage- Yahoo. Discuss
year to overhaul your diet, steal a For more information and tips point gain in just four or five
page from the Parent Hacks check out Parent Hacks at the months. Yahoo and Bing account
playbook and take a moment to link below. Have your own tip
figure out what the proper for eating healthier? Let's hear
portions of the new food, midday about it in the comments. Snack
and evening snacks especially, Hack: Create Single Servings to
you're incorporating into your Teach Portion Control and
diet are. Bundle the individual Increase Independence[Parent
portions up and you'll have ready Hacks]
Steve, but the network passed on and Studio 60 on the Sunset Filed under: Other Comedy
it. Now Perry has another show Strip, will be happy to hear that S h o w s , P r o g r a m m i n g ,
and ABC has signed him up. Tommy Schlamme is on board C e l e b r i t i e s , R e a l i t y - F r e e
Perry will star in Mr. Sunshine, as a producer, and I bet he'll Permalink| Email this| |
a pilot that he co-wrote with direct an episode or two as well. C o m m e n t s
Marc Firek and Alex Barnow. We're all getting older. Perry is
It's about the manager of a sports now a man in his 40s, Leblanc
arena who turns 40 and realizes and grow up. Fans of two other has gray hair, and Courteney
that he has to change his ways Perry projects, The West Wing Cox is a cougar.
34 Tech News/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition

Do the Size of Mobile App Stores

Still Matter?
By Frederic Lardinois To some degree, Powers'
(ReadWriteWeb) comments about the size of
Submitted at 1/13/2010 11:34:21 AM
today's app stores rings true.
Maybe it really doesn't matter
According to Mplayit CEO that the Android store only
Michael Powers, the size of a features about 20,000 apps and
mobile platform's app store is that the Apple App Store now
now mostly irrelevant. Facebook holds more than 100,000. Maybe
-based mobile app store Mplayit it is true that consumers tend to
took a close look at the most offer more than enough apps and gravitate towards the same
popular apps for Android, as long as people can find the brands on all platforms.
BlackBerry and the iPhone and apps they are looking for - and as At the same time, though,
found that the most popular apps long as these apps are good - having more apps in the store
on all three platforms tend to be most consumers will be happy. also means that there is a more
very similar. As the popular app Most users simply don't need 50 active developer ecosystem Haiti: Where To Send
stores continue to grow, users on different apps to write their around a given platform. While
all the major platforms also drift grocery lists. iPhone developers rightly gripe
towards the same known brands Looking at Mplayit's list of the about Apple's approval process,
Your Money [Disasters]
and hits like EverNote and most popular apps across the top we've seen a lot more innovative By Pareene (Gawker) encourage you to visit our
Pandora. website where you can learn
platforms, it also becomes clear apps for the iPhone than for Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:38:47 PM
more about how to contribute:
Sponsor t h a t q u i t e a f e w o f t h e s e Android.
Mplayit also found that one of categories are being dominated Is the size of the Android market The Red Cross is"out of medical
t h e f a s t e s t g r o w i n g a p p by known brands like Shazam, holding you back from making supplies." The Daily Beast has http://www.WhiteHouse.gov/Hai
categories across all the major P a n d o r a , E v e r n o t e a n d t h e s w i t c h ? D o y o u t h i n k identified the NGOs most tiEarthquake
platforms are barcode scanners. Facebook. Mplayit, of course, is Android has enough good apps deserving of your donations.( Americans trying to locate
A p p s l i k e S h o p S a v v y a n d in the business of giving app that make up for the smaller app Watch out for frauds soliciting family members in Haiti are
RedLaser have clearly hit upon r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s a c r o s s store? Do you think the quality donations in the coming days.) encouraged to contact the State
an unfulfilled need. Size Doesn't platforms and doesn't fail to note of today's BlackBerry apps is And the White House emails: Department at (888) 407-4747.
Matter This is also a time when we are We will continue to stand with
that it's own store is a good good enough? Feel free to let us reminded of the common the people of Haiti and keep
According to Powers, asking alternative for finding apps know in the comments.
how many apps exist for a given outside of the standard top 20 Discuss humanity that we all share, and them in our thoughts and
platform is now a moot question. charts. Or Does It? Americans have always prayers.
All the major platforms now responded to these situations [Image: LISANDRO
with generosity of spirit. If you SUERO/AFP/Getty Images]
would like to support the urgent
humanitarian effort in Haiti, I
E-reader News Edition
Internet Rallies to Help Haiti: Here's Sarah Palin's Daughter
What You Can Do Right Now
By Frederic Lardinois
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:12:29 PM
As you probably know, Haiti
was struck by a devastating
earthquake last night. According
to the latest estimates, over
100,000 people may have died
and large parts of the island's
infrastructure have been
destroyed.
Here is short list of things you
can do right now to get help to
Haiti. Just watch out for
unsolicited emails. Quite a few
scammers and spammers are
trying to profit from this
catastrophe and have set up fake
donation sites and are running
phishing scams.
Sponsor
Text to Give Money
As Twitter's Ev Williams just
noted on the official Twitter
blog, giving money to relief
organizations has never been
Jay Reatard, Garage Rebel, Dead at 29 [Obits]
By John Cook (Gawker)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:14:28 PM
Hard-living Memphis garage-
rock hellion Jay Reatard—real
name Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr.—is
dead at 29. He was found in his
bed early this morning, and
Tech News/ Entertainment/ 35
Bristol Reveals Celibacy
Vow Of course, all the major relief
organizations also have websites
and will happily accept your
(ETonline - Breaking News) December 2008, also reveals that
donations. Our friends at
Mashable have compiled a good Submitted at 1/13/2010 10:38:00 AM she'd like to promote safe sex
list of worthy organizations. Stay and abstinence.
Informed In a revealing interview for the "Tripp is the love of my life -- I
Here are a few Twitter lists you upcoming issue of In Touch couldn't ask for a better baby,"
easier. All you need is your can follow to stay informed. W e e k l y , f o r m e r G O P Bristol, who broke up with
phone: • New York Times: follows presidential candidate Sarah Tripp's father Levi Johnston,
• The American Red Cross updates from organizations like Palin and her daughter Bristol tells the mag. "But the reality is
allows anyone in the US to text the Red Cross, Catholic Relief open up about the experience of I'm 19 years old and I have a 1-
HAITI to 90999 as an easy way Services and InternetHaiti r a i s i n g t h e i r t o d d l e r s o n s year-old. I wish I could be in my
to donate $10 to the recovery • CNN: following many of the together -- and what their plans 30s with a baby, and not be 20.
effort. The money is billed to same news sources as the New are for the future. Just having him so young -- I
your mobile phone account. York Times, but also features In the issue, on stands Friday, have to work, and I have to
According to the latest tally, the updates from local bloggers and Bristol says, "I'm not going to provide, because I'm a single
Red Cross has already raised Twitter users. have sex until I'm married…I mom."
over $800,000 through text • This local blogger is also can guarantee it." Bristol, who
messages. posting regular updates. gave birth to her son Tripp in
• Musician Wyclef Jean's Haiti-
focused organization, Yele is If you know of other news
also accepting text-message sources, local bloggers or
donations. To donate $5, text organizations, let us know in the
Yele to 501501 or visit the comments. Discuss
foundation's web site.
Memphis police are collection of his performances;
investigating. here's "I'm Watching You" live Microsoft and Hewlett
Reatard sang loud, nihilistic, in Brooklyn in 2008.
tuneful, adolescent songs about [Photo via Flickr by
-Packard Deal: The
how everything is awful and Redheadwalking.] Cloud is not Cheap
there is no hope. He dropped out By Alex Williams
of the eighth grade to play rock Fall, was released by Matador (ReadWriteWeb)
music; his last record, Watch Me l a s t y e a r . P i t c h f o r k h a s a
Submitted at 1/13/2010 11:21:39 AM
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MICROSOFT
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You're hard pressed to find any
sector of the tech economy that
is getting more financing than
cloud computing.
Today's announcement by
Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft
is a good example. The two tech
giants announced a partnership
today that is valued at $250
million.
Why are these ventures getting
such an influx of revenue? If
content is king, then
infrastructure in the castle in the
cloud.
Sponsor
Castles cost a lot to build and so
does a cloud service. The
Microsoft-HP deal is a case in
point. The two companies are
building a cloud infrastructure
that spans hardware and software
integration. They are developing
their own applications. It's like
an effort to build a massive data
center network that works as one
giant computer.
The investment includes the use
of HP servers for Azure, the
cloud platform developed by
Microsoft. In return, Microsoft
software, database programs and
other applications will be loaded
on the HP machines.
Both companies want to own the
enterprise. It's apparent that the
two feel this can only be done by
having a deep cloud-based
infrastructure that bundles a full
suite of software and tools to
optimize systems for business
customers.
Stacey Higginbotham of
GigaOm makes an excellent
point in asking if optimization is
the new code word for
proprietary systems. There's a
danger in that for customers as it
can lead to vendor lock-in.
But Microsoft and HP obviously
see a need to form their own
partnership to compete with the
likes of Cisco, which has a deal
with VMWare. Oracle, for its
part, is still waiting for approval
on its deal with Sun
Microsystems.
Enterprise customers should be
wary of these mega deals. The
castle in the cloud may look nice
but the enterprise customer may
find itself in the dungeon if it
makes too heavy an investment
in proprietary systems that lock
them into specific vendors.
Discuss
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By Ryan Tate (Gawker) Google says it hasn't actually search for "tiananmen" still looks
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:34:30 PM done anything yet. A like this on Google.cn...
spokesperson told the Daily ...and like this on Google.com
Google announced it will stop T e l e g r a p h ' s S h a n g h a i (with the language set to
filtering its China search engine correspondent the company has Chinese):
— or shut the site. And already, not changed its filtering since It's always nice to imagine a
once-suppressed results are announcing its forthcoming censorship free Google.cn, of
showing up on Google.cn (see changes. That, presumably, is course. It might even happen,
screenshot; top is current, bottom w h y y o u c a n s t i l l s e e a of both screenshots above. some day. But don't hold your The Smart Mac:
from June). That's the good disclaimer about censored search breath.
news. The bad news? results in black at the bottom left
And that's presumably why a
Smart Folders
in OS
Mac OS
X pagea computing
X offers
SMART 37
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many, is still unparalleled by its
competitors. Built on a rock solid
UNIX foundation and
continually adding refinements
that make interaction easier, OS
X has a lot of powerful
functionality that many users
were unaware existed. One of
these is the idea of “Smart
Folders” and with a little primer,
you can begin using them to
make your Mac experience
easier (and faster). A Brief
History
The idea of these Smart Folders
are not unique to OS X. In fact,
the idea started originally in the
mid ‘90s with the now defunct
BeOS. When Dominic
Giampaolo, a software developer
for Be, began working for Apple
in 2002, some of the best
elements of the BeOS made their
way into Apple’s modern
operating system. We know
these features as “Smart Folders”
and Spotlight, both of which
launched in Mac OS X 10.4
Tiger, two years after Giampaolo
began working for Apple.
A “Smart Folder” (or “Search
Folder” as Windows Vista calls
them when Microsoft introduced
its version in 2006) is based on
the idea that this folder is
basically a “virtual folder” of its
actual contents. This virtual
folder doesn’t physically store
copies of its contents inside but
rather utilizes a database to store
attributes about the files (defined
either by the system or the user).
This offers several advantages:
they have a small file size, the
ability for on-the-fly fine tuning
of the criteria used to define the
content as well as allowing the
content to dynamically update as
new files meet the criteria.
Whoa. What does all of that
mean? We’re getting there.
Smart Folders Save Time
In short, Smart Folders save you
time. You basically give them a
list of rules to follow and they
automatically fill themselves
with content based on the criteria
you’ve defined. It’s important
though, to realize that these
Smart Folders do not actually
represent copies of the content,
but merely virtually link to them.
If you delete a file out of a Smart
Folder, you’ve also deleted it
from its original location. How
To Make Smart Folders
Making a Smart Folder is quite
easy. In fact, if you’re running
Leopard or Snow Leopard,
several of them have already
been created. You might
recognize them due to their
trademark purple folder icon
(also used to serve the same role
in other applications, but we’ll
discuss that in future articles). In
the left side of a default Finder
window, you’ll see an area called
“Search For” with entries for
“Today,” “Yesterday,” “Past
Week” and some more. These
are built in smart folders that
automatically search your entire
system for files meeting those
criteria. But we can do far more
powerful things with Smart
Folders if we make our own.
• To get started, when in the
Finder, go to the File menu and
select “New Smart Folder.”
You’ll have a Finder window
that looks like a search window.
(You can also start this process
simply by searching from a
Finder window.)
• Next, using the bar beneath the
title bar of the window, select the
location you’d like this folder to
search. The default options are
your Mac, your home folder and
Shared (any other computers you
may connected to). If you’d like
it to confine the search to a
specific folder, simply navigate
to that folder and use the
Spotlight function built into the
Finder window. (Type something
into the field to bring up a
search; you can then delete what
you typed to move to the next
step).
• Unless you’ve specified some
phrase or string in the Spotlight
search region in the upper right
of the window, at this point
you’re not going to be seeing any
search results. Let’s give it some
actual criteria to search.
• Click the round plus (+) icon
on the right side of the window
to show another bar beneath the
search location. Where it says
“Kind” and “Any” is your first
search criteria. These work in
pairs. You can change “Any” to
documents, images, movies or
anything you want. Instantly,
you’ll see your search results
start to populate based on your
selection. Perhaps instead of
searching by kind, you want to
search by name, contents or date.
Clicking “Kind” will allow these
changes as well as a mystical
“other” option which gives you
tons of options for a plethora of
different uses. Since OS X is
media friendly, you can also
select criteria that corresponds to
metadata in your media files,
such as aperture value of a photo,
sample rate for an audio file,
video bit rate for video files and
more.
• You can continue to add
additional criteria by clicking the
plus and adding another row of
criterion. Each additional
criterion further fine tunes your
search. For an item to appear in
the results, it will need to meet
every rule you have created for
it.
• If you want to save a Smart
Folder search, click the Save
button in the upper right of the
window. Your searches are
saved in “Saved Searches” inside
the Library folder of your home
folder. There’s also a checkbox
to automatically add your new
search to your Finder sidebar.
• Editing a Smart Folder is as
simple as right clicking it in the
sidebar and selecting “Show
Search Criteria” or selecting the
same option from the gears menu
once you’ve double clicked a
saved Smart Folder.
Again, the beauty and power of
Smart Folders comes from the
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fact that once you’ve defined the
rules, this folder will
automatically continue to update
as new files are created or saved
that meet its criteria. Folder
Inspiration
Smart Folders sound great and
once you’ve set one up, you’ll
see the process is pretty simple.
It’s also pretty powerful but, for
inspiration, here’s a few
examples of interesting and
useful Smart Folders that you
could create on your system.
Recent Documents: To view all
your recent documents, set the
kind to document and the last
opened date to within the last 3
days.
Important Files: If you use
Finder labels, select “Other” and
choose “File label.” Then pick
the file label that matches your
desired results.
By Device: Have several
cameras? You can use “Device
make” and “Device model” to
specify a particular camera (as
well as any other EXIF data).
Do you use Smart Folders?
Have any tips you’d like to share
or comments on this post? Let
me know what you think; I’d
love to hear your feedback.
38 Apple/
Opinion: Flash is the Real iPhone Killer
By Liam Cassidy
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 7:26:29 AM
When Flash appeared near the
end of the last millennium it
promised a bright new world of
rich multimedia content creation
and delivery via what would
otherwise be drab old web pages.
At a time when Geocities was
the best the Web had to offer,
Flash was a tempting — and not
to mention dazzling — new kid
on the block.
Over the years, as web
technologies evolved and
matured, Flash proved to be
problematic; for those who make
websites (and care about
accessibility and web standards
in a way ordinary people just
don’t) it has gradually aged into
an unwieldy, outmoded platform.
Even for those enjoying the
most remarkable fruits of early
Flash labor — for instance,
YouTube relied on the
technology heavily in its
formative years — Flash was
simultaneously the bringer of
video entertainment and the most
common reason for all browser
(and a great many System)
crashes. Also — did I mention
the security vulnerabilities?
I hoped (foolishly, it seems) that
it was only the big movie studios
who, paranoid we’re all stealing
their stuff, were still insisting on
Flash-based content delivery, but
according to Erick Schonfeld
over on TechCrunch, there’s a
whopping two million Flash
developers out there, and they’re
simply dying to bring their Flash
-authored wares to the last
platform on Earth that has, so
far, remained blissfully Flash
free — your iPhone. Limitations
The iPhone has always been
marketed as a breakthrough
Internet device, in spite of two
limitations considered by some
people to be significant — the
iPhone’s browser, Mobile Safari,
has never supported Java or
Flash.
While the absence of Java is no
big deal (honestly, is there
anything more horrid than Java
web plugins?) the lack of Flash
support on the iPhone was
considered debilitating enough
that, in the UK, the Advertising
Standards Authority upheld
viewer complaints and banned
one of Apple’s iPhone
commercials for ‘misleading’
customers with the line “All the
parts of the Internet are on the
iPhone.” It sounds rather like an
over-reaction, but consider that
in his 2008 WWDC keynote,
Steve Jobs proudly announced,
“Mobile browsing has gone from
nothing to 98 percent with
iPhone.” With so much mobile
browsing going on, it seems any
limitations matter profoundly.
So, after almost three years
browsing the web on our
iPhones, how has the lack of
Flash truly affected us?
Here’s the answer to that in
three succinct syllables; not at
all.
Seriously, has it so greatly
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supposed to replace a laptop or This, frankly, scares me. I’ve
desktop-class machine. What the rarely seen a flash site that I
iPhone brought to mobile phones enjoyed. Even those which I
(both in terms of functions and thought impressive at first-blush
ease-of-use) was revolutionary in rapidly became cumbersome and
ways we readily take for granted slow. And don’t get me started
today. But just think again of on the platform’s propensity for
that figure; 98 percent browsing? random crashing. If developers
That had never happened on are granted the freedom to
mobile phones before, and it assault the stable, clean and
happened despite the lack of comfortable world of my iPhone
Flash. with gaudy, pointlessly-animated
inconvenienced anyone that they Steve Jobs announces 98 applications with inconsistent, ill
were driven away from the percent of iPhone owners are -conceived UI’s, I can only hope
iPhone forever? (That rhetorical using it for web browsing there’s a quick and easy way to
question will be read by our But while I (perhaps incorrectly) identify them in the App Store so
resident comment trolls as an assumed the lack of Flash was a I can avoid buying them
open invitation to loudly usability consideration on altogether!
proclaim their Android-based Apple’s part, Schonfeld thinks Schonfeld thinks CS5 will
phones ‘superior’ because they the decision was motivated by a result in an avalanche of Flash-
do support Flash.) less obvious, and far more authored iPhone apps; I hope
Schonfeld offers an ominous cunning, desire. he’s wrong. Even on the desktop,
prediction for 2010. [Apple] wanted a chance to Flash is something I prefer to
Adobe is going to bring its 2 b e c o m e i n g r a i n e d w i t h avoid when I can. (I use three
million Flash developers to the developers. Apple had to hold browsers — all of them employ a
iPhone, with or without Apple’s off Flash not so to control the flash blocker — and as a result I
blessing. As it announced in video experience on the iPhone, feel my experience of the web
October, the next version of its but because it needed to establish improved markedly.) I honestly
Flash developer tools, Creative its own Apple-controlled iPhone thought that, as 2010 gets under
Suite 5 […] will automatically SDK. The last thing it needed way, we’d all come to the same
convert any Flash app into an was a competing developer conclusion; that Flash is an
iPhone app. So while Flash apps platform getting in the way. antiquated technology whose
won’t run on the iPhone, any But Adobe Creative Suite 5 will security vulnerabilities and
F l a s h a p p c a n e a s i l y b e provide precisely the magic performance issues make it
converted into an iPhone app. button developers need to port deeply undesirable.
This is a bigger deal than many their Flash apps to the iPhone. If Apple can block these flash-
people appreciate. …those 2 million developers will authored apps, would it? Should
While Schonfeld thinks Apple’s be able to keep working with it? Tell me how wrong I am, and
lack of Flash support represents Adobe tools and simply turn why I’d better embrace it, in the
a “gaping hole in iPhone’s t h e m i n t o i P h o n e a p p s comments below.
arsenal” I rather think the automatically. …if you thought
opposite is true. For all the there were a lot of iPhone apps
iPhone’s inimitable prowess as a now, just wait until the Flash OPINION: page 39
m o b i l e c o m p u t e r , i t ’ s n o t floodgates are open.
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OPINION:
Estimate Places Total App Store continued from page 38

Piracy Cost at $450M

By Darrell Etherington time a new model of the iPhone
(TheAppleBlog) is released, but those
Submitted at 1/13/2010 7:45:13 AM
countermeasures are usually
pretty easily overcome. Apple
An interesting article at the could do more on the software
financial blog 24/7 Wall St. side, with apps themselves, but
today estimates the total cost of that would only spark another
pirated apps to the App Store, for arms race-type situation between
both Apple and developers, to be the company and the hacking
somewhere near the $450 million community, and allowing users
-mark. That number depends on to jailbreak and pirate frankly
a revenue estimate of between helps Apple sell hardware, which
$60 million and $110 million per percent of the 3 billion app store is the real cash cow.
quarter, which is probably less downloads, or 510 million, were It’s a troubling report for
than the actual number since paid apps (though we found 1 in developers who can’t afford to
those figures are based on a 4 in December, so that number just eat these kinds of losses the
slightly older report by Bernstein seems to be growing), that means way Apple can. But it also makes
analyst Toni Sacconaghi. that the number of pirated apps is the assumption that piracy will
The article also notes that somewhere in the neighborhood continue to grow, which I think
finding good solid numbers of 1.53 billion apps. Not a is a false one. Yes, it’s easier
related to both the number of number you’ll see Apple using in than ever to jailbreak your
jailbroken iPhones that are out its promotional material anytime iPhone, but as Apple continues
there, and the number of those soon. to work on the operating system
The Last Safe Thing on
devices that are actually pirating Even considering that only behind the platform, there is less
games is difficult to do. After around 10 percent of those who and less reason to do so. Earth [Health]
reviewing numerous sources of pirated apps would’ve purchased Many users only jailbreak to get By Hamilton Nolan (Gawker) rich-plasma injections.
information, 24/ Wall St. arrived them instead if the illicit option some extra functionality out of Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:35:42 PM Journalism. In fact, only one
at the conclusion that an estimate was not available, this represents their device that already exists thing has been proven not to hurt
of 75 percent piracy rates for a loss of around $459 million for there, rather than being set on Today in things that will kill you.
paid apps was most accurate. b o t h A p p l e a n d t h e a p p trying to get software for free. you: Spaghetti-O's. Sex • Viagra.
That means that for every paid developers working with the As long as iPhone 4.0 introduces dungeons. Chinese jewelry.
app download, there have been Mac maker. Doesn’t seem like true multitasking, I think we’ll Things that are no good for you: Ladies?
three pirated downloads of the an insignificant number. see overall jailbreak rates fall off Catching up on sleep. Platelet-
same app that result in no Insignificant or not, Apple isn’t considerably, and likely piracy
r e v e n u e . G i v e n t h a t t h e doing much to quell piracy rates, numbers will follow, too.
researchers behind the report either. Sure, it counters the most
also estimated that around 17 recent jailbreak exploit every
40 Entertainment/ Fashion/
Shutting Down Rupert Murdoch's Social
Experiments Lab [Rumormonger]
By Ryan Tate (Gawker)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:10:15 PM
We hear News Corporation is
winding down MySpace spinoff
Slingshot Labs, a vestige of the
media conglomerate's efforts to
retain MySpace founder Chris
DeWolfe. But the labs are
hatching one last diabolical plot,
on behalf of the Wall Street
Journal.
Our spy tells us that half of
Slingshot's lavishly-paid staff
have been laid off, while the
other half are completing a
"LinkedIn killer" for the Journal.
A WSJ site for posting resumés
and for professional networking
sounds like a severely tardy
effort, particularly if the goal is
to try and unseat segment leader
LinkedIn. One of LinkedIn's
greatest strengths is its strong
placement in Google search
results. But News Corp. and the
Journal in particular have been
flagrantly antagonizing Google
for indexing their content.
Perhaps the true goal is to build a
smaller, better curated set of high
-level executives and managers;
that sort of site might actually
take off.
In any case, it sounds like this
will be the last idea to emerge
from Slingshot. The tech
"incubator" was started two
years ago with $15 million in
News Corp. money; we heard at
the time that DeWolfe demanded
the investment as a condition of
renewing his contract. But the
MySpace founder then got the
heave-ho in April 2009, barely a
MySpace innovations. It wa 90
percent owned by News Corp.
and 10 percent owned by staff;
the idea was to sell innovations
back to News Corp. and share in
the tenth of the profits the media
conglomerate didn't keep for
itself. But no such sale ever
happened; we're told the closest
the lab ever came to such a sale
was for a MySpace events app
called Social Plan. Aside from
that, the lab's biggest product
was a me-too gossip website
called DailyFill. There's also the
list-sharing website Linfo and
the dating site Catchme, neither
of which took the world by
storm.
Regardless of Slingshot's track
record, News Corp.'s top
managers could benefit from
year after the lab was set up. some high-tech experimentation
Our tipster said News Corp. i n b e t w e e n t h e i r b o u t s o f
seems intent on shutting down heckling the likes of Google. In
Slingshot entirely, but this that sense, it's sad to see even an
person couldn't rule out the underperforming tech lab fall by
possibility that a successful the wayside.
project for the Journal could save (Pic: Murdoch and DeWolfe at
remaining workers' necks and the 2007 opening of MySpace's
maybe even the lab itself. San Francisco office. Getty
Though technically independent, Images.)
Slingshot was mainly a lab for
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Outrageous Pop
Icons: Madonna
vs. Lady Gaga
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 7:30:00 AM
How does Lady Gaga’s fake-
blood-soaked “Paparazzi”
performance at this past
September’s VMAs compare
with Madonna’s writhing “Like a
Virgin” theatrics at the 1984
awards? Who’s made more
infamous sartorial statements?
(Last we recall, the Material Girl
never sported a costume
composed of Kermit dolls.) And
which diva stole the hair-pulling
spotlight in SNL’s “Deep House
Dish” catfight sketch? Cast your
vote here.
—Erin Clements
Photos: Retna
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Kiffin, All-Star Staff Jilt Tennessee for USC
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 8:34:59 AM
Lane Kiffin barely even had
time to learn the words to
“Rocky Top” during his single
season as head coach at the
University of Tennessee. But it
wasn’t Kiffin’s 7-6 debut year
with the Vols that led to his
replacing Pete Carroll as USC’s
head football coach Tuesday.
While Kiffin’s years as an
assistant under Carroll at USC
doubtless helped his case,
Kiffin’s biggest selling point was
the posse of talented assistants he
brings with him. In hiring Kiffin,
USC essentially turned back the
clock on its coaching staff,
bringing in former USC
assistants Ed Orgeron, an ace
recruiter, and Monte Kiffin,
Lane’s father and a revered
defensive coordinator. Former
Trojans offensive coordinator
Norm Chow is a strong
candidate to return as well. In
short, USC essentially hired
Faceman and got the rest of the
A-Team for free. Associated
Press Who says Lane Kiffin’s
inexperienced? Don’t forget his
five wins in 20 games with the
Oakland Raiders.
But was Kiffin the right hire for
USC? The sport-pundit
consensus is decidedly mixed.
Given the NCAA investigation
closing in on USC’s football
program, Kiffin’s track record
which includes, during his one
season at UT, six secondary
NCAA violations and two Vols
players dismissed from the team
after an armed robbery appears
rather worrying. The same goes
for the feud Kiffin manufactured
with Florida head coach Urban
Meyer. “Kiffin did and said a lot
of these outrageous things to stir
things up; you know the old
motto — there’s no such thing as
bad publicity,” Chris Dufresne
writes in the Los Angeles Times.
“Well, sometimes there is.”
While Sports Illustrated’s
Stewart Mandel likes the Kiffin
hire from a football perspective,
he’s baffled by Kiffin’s
seemingly unstoppable ascent
through the coaching ranks.
“Kiffin marched into Knoxville
armed with big talk and bigger
plans to stockpile the nation’s
top recruits, take down Florida
and turn Tennessee back into a
national power,” Mandel writes.
“He did none of those things, yet
somehow he’s managed to land
an even cushier job. Not even
Don Draper could sell such a
phony bill of goods.”
Yahoo’s Dan Wetzel agrees that
Kiffin has been more a big talker
than big winner in his coaching
career, but thinks he might
succeed at USC despite that. “I
dont think this was the worst
move by the Trojans,” Wetzel
writes. “It tells you what you
need to know about [USC A.D.
Mike] Garrett and Kiffin, both of
whom deserve plenty of ridicule.
In terms of potential wins and
losses though, this might actually
work out.”
The same probably can’t be said
for Tennessee, which is
coachless just a few weeks
before NCAA signing day. In the
Nashville Tennessean, David
Climer refuses to be surprised by
Kiffin’s cutthroat move. “This is
what you get when you hand
over your program to a football
mercenary like Kiffin,” Climer
writes. At Fox Sports, Peter
Schrager writes that Tennessee’s
football program would’ve been
better off if it hadn’t hired Kiffin
in the first place.* * *
There are cheap baseball teams
and then there are the Florida
Marlins, who have channeled
their inner Scrooge all decade,
payroll-wise. But what looked
like another offseason of payroll
paring for Florida took a
surprising turn Tuesday. In a rare
joint statement from the Marlins,
the Major League Baseball
Players Association and Major
League Baseball, the Marlins
pledged to spend more of the
revenue sharing funds they
receive from MLB on payroll.
“The Marlins were the only team
mentioned in the joint
statement,” the Miami Herald’s
Clark Spencer reports. “There
have been unconfirmed reports
that a handful of teams,
including the Marlins, are raking
in as much as $90 million each
season through revenue sharing
and other sources of income,
such as TV-radio rights,
merchandising and sponsorships.
Of that amount, some have
speculated that $35 million of it
comes from revenue sharing.”
The Marlins’ MLB-low 2009
payroll was just over $36
million.
The MLBPA has always had the
right to review teams’ otherwise
confidential spending records as
part of the so-called basic
agreement behind revenue
sharing. But this was the first
instance in which the union acted
to force a franchise to honor its
obligation to spend revenue-
sharing dough on players. “Dont
expect [the MLBPA] to
immediately chase after the
Pirates or the Royals, or any
other clubs that could be on their
radar,” Maury Brown writes at
The Biz of Baseball. “Thats
because the precedent-setting
agreement that singles out the
Marlins should echo in those
other markets. The MLBPA has
been talking of doing something,
and now they have. The message
is clear: were more than
watching, were willing to act.”
At ESPN, Rob Neyer sees the
statement as a win for the
MLBPA and its new executive
director, Michael Weiner.* * *
Tremendous payroll,
tremendous success, tremendous
international profile: it’s not for
nothing that Manchester United
Sports/ 41
has been referred to as the New
York Yankees of the EPL. But
with United’s debts reportedly
topping £700 million that’s an
absurd $1.14 billion the
comparison looks less and less
apt. Manchester United is
currently touring the globe with a
series of “road shows” designed
to attract investors for the £500
million (or $814 million) bond
recently issued by team owner
Malcolm Glazer. “If it sounds
frantic, or indeed desperate, it is
certainly an approach that throws
up as many questions as
answers,” Oliver Kay writes in
the London Times. “With an
unpredictable financial climate
ahead, the Glazers have decided
that a bond whereby the debts
are secured against money
borrowed from investors, who
would in turn expect a
considerable return on their
investment when it matures in
2017 is the best way to secure
their much-maligned regime at
Old Trafford.”
The £80 million transfer fee
from the sale of Cristiano
Ronaldo to Real Madrid got the
Glazers and United back into the
black for 2009, but the team’s
finances appear to remain
perilous. In the Independent,
Sam Wallace reports that the
team’s inability to balance its
books could lead to disciplinary
action from UEFA, European
soccer’s governing body, which
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Tennessee Volunteers 'disappointed' by Kiffin's abrupt

departure
By ESPN.com news services writes. Story Hamilton said when asked before recruiting's live again," Kiffin, and assistant head coach
(ESPN.com) Bolting Tennessee after just one Wednesday if he felt betrayed at Hamilton said. and recruiting coordinator Ed
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:05:01 PM
season leaves Lane Kiffin with Kiffin's departure. "If I said I Hamilton said he has met Orgeron to USC with him.
zero credibility, Gene was anything less than already with the eight recruits Orgeron was with the Trojans for
AD Disappointed For Tennessee Wojciechowski writes. Story disappointed, not personally who enrolled early and told them seven seasons before becoming
Fans AD Disappointed For USC made a bold statement to disappointed ... I'm more to "go to class." Recruits who the head coach at Mississippi and
T e n n e s s e e F a n s V I D E O the NCAA by hiring a guy who disappointed for our kids and our have begun the new semester and then an assistant with the New
PLAYLIST was admonished by the NCAA fans." continue to attend class would be Orleans Saints.
• AD Disappointed For in his first few weeks at For a replacement, Tennessee eligible to participate in Hamilton was quizzed about
T e n n e s s e e F a n s A D Tennessee for a program already will make a run at Texas Tennessee's spring practice. how much Kiffin strayed from
Disappointed For Tennessee under scrutiny. Mark Saxon defensive coordinator Will "This is not the time [to have an Tennessee traditions and about
Fans takes a look. Story Muschamp, a source close to the opening]," Hamilton the departing coaches contacting
• The Mood In Tennessee Post Talk to some former players, as situation told ESPN.com's Chris acknowledged. Vol recruits, trying to lure them
Kiffin The Mood In Tennessee ESPNLosAngeles.com's Arash Low. Texas has said that National signing day for high to Southern California.
Post Kiffin Markazi did, and they seem Muschamp will succeed Mack school seniors is Feb. 3, and it "Nothing surprises me anymore,"
• Lane Kiffin Says Goodbye To thrilled that Lane Kiffin's coming Brown as Longhorns head coach, remains to be seen how many Hamilton said about the calls to
Tennessee Lane Kiffin Says back to USC. Story but no timetable has been set for verbal commitments Tennessee recruits.
Goodbye To Tennessee Hamilton spoke at a news a transition. The source said that loses now that Kiffin has Before coming to Knoxville for
• Pat Forde On USC Hiring c o n f e r e n c e W e d n e s d a y Muschamp is Tennessee's No. 1 departed. According to Scouts his first job as a college head
Lane Kiffin Pat Forde On USC discussing his second coaching target. Inc., defensive tackle Brandon coach, the 34-year-old Kiffin
Hiring Lane Kiffin search in less than two years Hamilton said he could not Willis of Duncan, S.C., has coached the Oakland Raiders.
after Kiffin announced Tuesday foresee a scenario in which decommitted for a second time Before then, he was a member of
K N O X V I L L E , T e n n . - - night his abrupt resignation to former longtime coach Phil and has given a verbal the USC coaching staff from
Tennessee athletic director Mike take the same job at USC. Kiffin, Fulmer, who was replaced by commitment to North Carolina. 2001 to 2006, first as wide
Hamilton said Wednesday he can hired 14 months ago, coached Kiffin, would become a Scouts Inc. also reported that receivers coach and then as
describe Lane Kiffin's tenure one season at Tennessee and was candidate. defensive end Delvin Jones of offensive coordinator under Pete
coaching the Volunteers in just 7-6. Hamilton said the search to Miami has decommitted and is Carroll.
one word: "Brief." According to Hamilton, Kiffin replace Kiffin started Tuesday considering written offers from Carroll left USC on Monday to
Reaction from ESPN.com told him Saturday that if the and is "full blast" under way. Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi become head coach of the Seattle
and ESPNLosAngeles.com USC job became available he Tennessee has a recruit weekend and Nebraska. Seahawks.
Although losing Lane Kiffin to would be interested. By Tuesday, scheduled for this weekend, and Mike & Mike in the Morning "It's good that USC acted quickly
USC might sting the Vols for a Hamilton said Kiffin informed interim coach Kippy Brown said Tennessee women's basketball to get a coach connecting with
few days, Tennessee will be him that he was taking USC's they will hold the event with coach Pat Summitt says she's our history," Carroll said
much better off in the long run, offer. prospects reporting Friday. disappointed with football coach Wednesday, according to the Los
Mark Schlabach writes. Story Hamilton said he is disappointed Brown called himself a Lane Kiffin leaving Tennessee to Angeles Times. "The players
Lane Kiffin's meteoric rise up after giving Kiffin a chance to be candidate for the job, and he said coach USC. Summitt describes will feel comfortable and be able
the coaching ranks has reached a head coach and said he hopes he expects a coach to be hired by the feeling on campus in to follow some of the same kinds
new heights. Despite a mediocre to have a football coach in place Friday. The athletic director Knoxville. of lines of what they're
record, he landed the USC job. in the coming days. would only commit to having a More Podcasts » accustomed to.
Maybe this is where he actually "I feel like we gave him a chance coach hired by Sunday. Kiffin will bring his father and
earns his station, Pat Forde and gave him a good job," TENNESSEE page 43
"Hopefully it's going to get done defensive coordinator, Monte
E-reader News Edition Sports/ 43
TENNESSEE
Tennessee Titans' Chris Johnson named NFL continued from page 42

"They're going to be good -- they

offensive player of the year have the best defensive coach in
the history of the world. And
By Associated Press "I kind of realize what I did and I you can really say that makes "I'm just happy to be a part of it, Lane will hit it running and take
(ESPN.com) feel like I had a dream season," you want to work harder or to make history with him," pride in recruiting and the whole
Submitted at 1/13/2010 10:38:01 AM
said Johnson, who scored 16 anything like that, so it's kind of Titans quarterback Vince Young deal. Lane's going to do great."
touchdowns (14 rushing), second a good thing and a bad thing me added. "He's going to be a great Kiffin's Tennessee contract calls
NEW YORK -- That blur to Minnesota's Adrian Peterson, not getting the record." player. This is just his second for him to pay an $800,000
speeding away from opposing and tied the NFL mark with six AFC South blog year, that's the crazy part." buyout for leaving after only one
defenses and running off with consecutive games rushing for at ESPN.com's Paul Kuharsky No one has rushed for 2,000 season.
The Associated Press 2009 NFL least 125 yards. writes about all things AFC yards twice in a career. Titans Lane and Monte Kiffin and
Offensive Player of the Year Johnson, who has run a 4.2 in South in his division blog. coach Jeff Fisher says it would Orgeron will hold a news
award is Tennessee Titans the 40 and believes he'll remain • Blog network: NFL Nation be unwise to bet against Johnson conference on Wednesday at 8
running back Chris Johnson. the NFL's fastest player unless a Johnson's production was even setting that precedent, too. p.m. ET in the Heritage Hall
Considered the fastest man in team signs Usain Bolt, has more impressive considering the "I think he's one player that has a Varsity Lounge at USC.
pro football, Johnson was bigger dreams, too: breaking Eric Titans began the season with six chance to do it again. He's Information from The
uncatchable in setting a league D i c k e r s o n ' s s i n g l e - s e a s o n straight losses. He was a key young," Fisher said. "He's Associated Press was used in this
mark for yards from scrimmage rushing record of 2,105 yards, r e a s o n f o r T e n n e s s e e ' s special. He has the potential to report.
(2,509) and becoming the sixth and winning the league MVP t u r n a r o u n d t o 8 - 8 . go the distance and change Five Filters featured article:
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QUARTERBACK BIAS? [for MVP]," Johnson said. "Like or longer in a season; no NFL League MVP Peyton Manning Term Extraction.
Titans running back Chris the season I had, it seemed like, player had even done that in a of Indianapolis drew 1½ votes,
Johnson easily won offensive `What more do they want me to career. He'll start next season and San Diego quarterback
player of the year honors, as do?' That just felt like rookie of with a streak of 11 100-yard Philip Rivers got one.
shown below, but he's perplexed the year; it's a quarterback thing I rushing games; Barry Sanders Johnson is the first Titan to win
as to how he did not get a single guess." holds the record with 14 in 1997. the honor, but the third player in
vote for league MVP in what he Atlanta Falcons quarterback In November, Johnson rushed franchise history. Quarterback
calls "a quarterback thing." Matt Ryan beat out Johnson for for 800 yards, the best month of Warren Moon won in 1990 as a
He is the first NFL player to 2008 Offensive Rookie of the any running back in NFL history. H o u s t o n O i l e r , a n d E a r l
finish with at least 2,000 yards Year. By then, it was a one-man show Campbell took the award from
rushing and 500 receiving (503). Of course, if Johnson keeps in the Tennessee backfield; as a 1978 to 1980 with the Oilers.
That earned the second-year pro posting phenomenal numbers, all rookie, Johnson split duties with Copyright 2010 by The
38½ votes Wednesday from a kinds of honors and records LenDale White, and rushed for A s s o c i a t e d P r e s s
n a t i o n w i d e p a n e l o f 5 0 should keep coming. 1,228 yards and nine TDs. This Five Filters featured article:
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quarterback Drew Brees, who Dickerson's mark. "You go for "I took a backseat to greatness,"
received nine votes. 2,000 yards. I don't know what White noted.
44 Sports/ Fashion/ Economy/ E-reader News Edition

Kansas City Chiefs hire Romeo Crennel as Hackers in

frontline of
defensive coordinator China’s cyberwar
By ESPN.com news services Notre Dame's coach. went 4-12 last year in Todd best performances. (Financial Times - US
(ESPN.com) The Chiefs informed Pendergast Haley's rocky rookie season as a Miles Austin, in an overtime homepage)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 10:56:07 AM
early Wednesday that they would head coach. victory over the Chiefs, set the Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:13:48 PM
be terminating his contract one Besides their successful Cowboys single-game record
As expected, the Kansas City year after hiring him from experience with the Patriots, the with 250 yards receiving. Then Just hours before Google
Chiefs on Wednesday officially Arizona, sources close to the two new coordinators also have later in the season in what many announced late on Tuesday that
hired Romeo Crennel to be their situation told ESPN NFL Insider post-New England failure in Chiefs fans consider the low China-based hackers had
new defensive coordinator. Adam Schefter. Potential landing common. Weis left the Patriots point of the entire year, attacked its systems last month,
Crennel spots for Pendergast could to become head coach at his Cleveland backup Jerome China’s cyberwarriors were at
When they take the field next include Atlanta, which did not beloved Notre Dame and did get Harrison rushed for an work – this time defacing Iranian
season, the Chiefs will have the renew the contract of defensive off to a good start. He was fired astonishing 286 yards, wiping websites in retaliation for a
same defensive coordinator, backs coach Emmitt Thomas. Nov. 30 with a five-year record out Jim Brown's team record hacker attack on the pages of a
offensive coordinator and top Crennel will not start work for of 35-27. with the third-highest single- Chinese search engine.
front-office executive who Kansas City for a couple of Crennel, 62, left New England game total in NFL history. If the idea of search engines as
helped lead New England to w e e k s b e c a u s e o f a p r i o r to become head coach in The Chiefs pick fifth in the battlegrounds in a cyber-war is
three Super Bowl titles during commitment -- he'll be the head Cleveland. And five years later, April draft. And they would surprising, the motivations and
2002-05. coach of the East Team in the he was fired with a 24-40 record, seem to have a favorable prowess of Chinese hackers are
Throw in quarterback Matt East-West college football all- including 4-12 in 2008. schedule in 2010 with only three well established. Unlike most of
Cassel, who backed up Tom star game on Jan. 23 in Orlando, Both also face a big challenge to games against 2009 playoff their counterparts in other
Brady with the Patriots, and the Fla. help Haley and Pioli get the teams. countries known for malicious
N e w E n g l a n d - K a n s a s C i t y The New York Giants had also Chiefs back into contention. Information from The computer activity, especially
c o n n e c t i o n b e c o m e s e v e n expressed interest in Crennel, Kansas City showed some life Associated Press was used in this eastern Europe, Chinese hackers
stronger as Scott Pioli attempts and talked with him by phone on near the end of the season, but report. are known for patriotism.
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manager Pioli and offensive be his first choice. the worst games of any in the
coordinator Charlie Weis. Weis Crennel and Weis will be NFL this past season, twice
was hired by Kansas City last joining a franchise that has won sending opposing players into
week following his ouster as only 10 games in three years and the record book with franchise-

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E-reader News Edition
The Count: NFL Home Teams Can’t
Rest Easy
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:26:26 PM
If the quartet of NFL teams
playing at home with a week’s
rest win this weekend, it
probably will be because they are
better than their opponents, and
not because of that rest or home-
field advantage. Associated Press
Jake Delhomme and the Carolina
Panthers had a week of rest and
home-field advantage against
Arizona a year ago. The result?
A 33-13 loss.
That, at least, is what the
historical record suggests. Home
teams have done very well
playing in the divisional round of
the playoffs, after a week off
during which their opponents
played wild-card games. But
they’ve done no better than one
would expect given that they’re
generally better teams to begin
with — hence the bye — and
playing at home. And in the last
two years, home teams actually
have lost five of eight games at
this stage of the playoffs.
Before the last eight games
upended expectations about the
divisional round, Jason Lisk
studied the effect of the bye
week for Pro Football
Reference’s blog. He compared
home teams’ average margin of
victory at various stages of the
playoffs with their expected
victory margin, based on their
ranking in Pro Football
Reference’s Simple Ranking
System(SRS). He found that
home teams in the wild-card and
divisional rounds of the playoffs
tend to have a six-point home-
field advantage, whether or not
they got rest. This is higher than
regular-season home-field
advantage, which could reflect
the chill of playoff weather at
outdoor venues. For conference-
championship games, home-field
advantage averaged two
touchdowns in cold climates, but
was virtually nonexistent
otherwise. Four of the five home
losers in the divisional round
over the last two years played
indoors or in relatively warm
weather.
These findings suggest an
especially slim advantage for this
weekend’s home teams, since
three play in domes and one —
the Chargers — play in San
Diego (the only chance of a cold-
weather game from here on out
is an AFC championship
matchup between the Ravens and
Jets at Giants Stadium). Also, the
matchups this year are atypical,
in that by some ranking systems
the rested home team is worse
than the visiting opponent. By
SRS, the Jets are better than the
Chargers and the Ravens are
better than the Colts. In the NFC,
the Vikings and Cowboys are
nearly equal, while among the
home teams, only the Saints have
a big edge, over the Cardinals.
Football Outsiders’ DVOA
rankings have the Ravens,
Cardinals and Cowboys as
superior to their opponents. And
Jeff Sagarin’s predictor ranking
favors the Ravens, Jets and
Cowboys.
So don’t be surprised if one or
two — or three or four —
visitors win this weekend, and
don’t be too quick to call those
outcomes upsets.
KIFFIN,
continued from page 41
has tried to end the trend of EPL
teams living beyond their means.
“With the Glazer debt now at
more than £700m and no
Ronaldo to sell next summer to
balance the books, it would
appear that United will attract the
interest of UEFA if they are still
under the same ownership come
2013,” Wallace writes. “Their
business plan includes a £75m
rolling credit line which United
could use in the transfer market.
Buying players on credit is the
exact opposite of what [UEFA
head Michel] Platini wants clubs
to do.”* * *
“What would be more jarring for
a college hockey player?”
Yahoo’s Greg Wyshinski asks.
“Seeing a 29-year-old former
NHL player lining up on his
wing, or seeing one that served
five years after pleading guilty in
a failed murder-for-hire plot
before being paroled?” It’s not a
rhetorical question: Wyshinski is
writing about Mike Danton. The
recently paroled former St. Louis
Blues forward has enrolled at
Nova Scotia’s St. Mary’s
University, and could play for
the school’s hockey team during
the second half of this season.
In the Globe and Mail, Roy
MacGregor argues that Danton’s
eligibility reflects a failure of
common sense by CIS, Canada’s
intercollegiate athletic
association. In the Halifax
Chronicle Herald, Chris
Sports/ 45
Cochrane applauds the university
for giving the troubled Danton a
second chance.* * *
The baffling collapse of the
much-anticipated bout between
Floyd Mayweather Jr. and
Manny Pacquiao remains a
bummer, but both fighters have
moved on, and boxing fans
should probably do the same.
Though both Mayweather and
Pacquiao intend to fight on
March 13, only Pacquiao has
announced an opponent for that
date. The prospect of Pacquiao
squaring off at Cowboys
Stadium with the very game
Joshua Clottey is intriguing, but
it’s still tough not to think about
what might’ve been. Before you
move on, though, your Fixer
recommends that you read Tim
Starks’ long-but-definitive
autopsy of the now-quite-dead
fight at the boxing blog
Queensberry Rules. Spoiler alert:
there is a lot of blame to go
around.
— Tip of the Fix cap to reader
Brendan Flynn.
Found a good column from the
world of sports? Don’t keep it to
yourself — write to us at
dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll
consider your find for inclusion
in the Daily Fix. You can email
David at droth11@gmail.com.
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Sources: Brian Schottenheimer of Blake Griffin Done for

New York Jets nixes Buffalo Bills Season
By Bethlehem Shoals
talk (Fanhouse Main)
By Adam Schefter victory over the Cincinnati "For the first time in three years, Submitted at 1/13/2010 7:51:00 AM

(ESPN.com) Bengals in Paul Brown Stadium, I'm really, really happy. I'm Filed under: Clippers, Western,
Submitted at 1/13/2010 11:01:38 AM
Ryan bemoaned what he claimed happy working for Rex. I love NBA Draft, NBA Injuries It
is the near-certain loss of the area. I love the Jets fans. I seems like only yesterday --
Schottenheimer Declines Bills Schottenheimer after this season. love what we've done. I love the actually, the end of last month--
I n t e r v i e w S c h o t t e n h e i m e r "I realize we're probably only guys on our roster." that Blake Griffin was looking
D e c l i n e s B i l l s I n t e r v i e w going to have him for as long as His words were reflected in his forward to playing his first
Even though the Jets granted the we're in this tournament," Ryan actions when he thanked the regular-season games. Camby-- no longer such a no-
Bills permission, New York said, "but we're enjoying it right Bills for their opportunity but It was supposed to be a matter brainer should that opportunity
offensive coordinator Brian now." ultimately decided to remain of weeks, which would've put his present itself.
Schottenheimer declined the On Sunday, Schottenheimer where he is. putative return right around ... Griffin was thought to be head
chance to interview for the reiterated his comments from last It also wasn't as if Wednesday, actually. and shoulders above the rest of
Buffalo head-coaching job this week that he's content with the Schottenheimer needed the Well, instead, the Clippers have last summer's draft class, in part
w e e k o r a f t e r t h e s e a s o n , Jets. He said he's fascinated by experience of interviewing for announced that the No. 1 overall due to the ongoing obsession
according to sources. their future with rookies such as the job; he has interviewed for pick is done for the season: with tall people, especially
AFC East blog Sanchez and Shonn Greene and multiple head coach openings After experiencing some athletic ones. We shouldn't jump
ESPN.com's Tim Graham writes young Pro Bowl linemen Nick and is expected to have more discomfort during his recently- to make an Greg Oden
about all things AFC East in his Mangold and D'Brickashaw opportunities in future years accelerated rehabilitation comparison, not in the least
division blog. Ferguson. when he might be more willing program, Clippers' forward because Kevin Durant is really
• Blog network: NFL Nation "I'd love to be a head coach, but I to leave the Jets. Blake Griffin was examined tall, while all the guards that
Schottenheimer has remarked say that with an asterisk," Adam Schefter is ESPN's NFL Tuesday afternoon by Dr. Neal have sparkled as rookies this
throughout the season how much Schottenheimer said Sunday Insider. Information from ElAttrache in Los Angeles. As a season are short. Still, it's worth
he enjoys working with new Jets after the Jets beat the Bengals in ESPN.com's Tim Graham was result of that examination, it has noting that again; we have a big
coach Rex Ryan and rookie the wild-card round of the used in this report. been determined that the healing man succumbing to injury, and
quarterback Mark Sanchez, and playoffs. "That's my dream, but I Five Filters featured article: in his left patella area has not smaller players starring from the
how truly content he is with his want to be a head coach when Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: improved to the expected get-go. Maybe size isn't such an
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coordinator of the league's top- situation is right. I don't want to Term Extraction. undergo a surgical procedure in The game has been getting
ranked running attack. just take a job to take a job. the near future, with a recovery smaller for a few seasons; the
After Saturday's 24-14 playoff prognosis of four to six months. draft has been one of the last
Our sympathies go out to Griffin, holdouts. Seeing as big men are
his family, and especially the less structurally sound than other
Clippers, who would've greatly players, and thus more likely to
strengthened their playoff be injured, you have to wonder if
chances with Griffin in the future lottery teams might take a
lineup. They also stood to gain player's height into consideration
some flexibility, financial or as a negative.
otherwise, by dealing Marcus
E-reader News Edition Sports/ Economy/ 47

Los Angeles Clippers' Blake Griffin The Count: Unanswered

to have season-ending surgery Questions on McGwire
By Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
an anti-gravity treadmill.
The power forward developed
pain in his knee, and an
been fully healthy in Los
Angeles, even straining his right
shoulder during summer league
and Steroids
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:26:06 PM
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
examination Tuesday revealed play in Las Vegas.
Blake Griffin Done For The his recovery wasn't progressing Griffin's woes sadly can't be Submitted at 1/12/2010 3:28:55 PM

Season Blake Griffin Done For properly. The Clippers said more surprising to fans of a team with
The Season details would be announced When did Mark McGwire use
just two winning seasons in the
LOS ANGELES -- Blake soon. steroids? The exact timing could
last 30 years and just one playoff
Griffin's first season with the Los After a loss in Memphis on help reassess his gaudy career
series victory since moving to
Angeles Clippers is over before Tuesday, the Clippers will play town in 1984. numbers — and also to examine
it even began. at New Orleans on Wednesday how much performance-
The Clippers also have a long
Griffin night before returning to Los enhancing drugs actually
history of disappointing draft move on?”
Griffin will have surgery on his Angeles for a road game against enhance performance. Reuters
picks, including a pair of No. 1 That does seem like enough
broken left kneecap, keeping the the Lakers on Friday. Would McGwire have reached
overall choices that didn't dazzle. cause to knock out McGwire’s
No. 1 draft pick out for at least Griffin was the consensus 70 homers in 1998 without the
Danny Manning played just 26 Hall of Fame candidacy, but
four more months, the eternally college player of the year with help of steroids?
games in his rookie season in other writers won’t move on
star-crossed Clippers announced 22.7 points and an NCAA-best McGwire’s statement, issued
1988-89 after tearing his knee until they believe McGwire has
in a statement Wednesday. 14.4 rebounds per game last ligament and undergoing Monday, admitted to steroid use come clean, fully, making it
Griffin hasn't played a regular- season for the Sooners, and the after the 1989 season, and again
surgery, though he eventually possible to fully assess his
season game yet for the Clippers Clippers eagerly chose him in became an All-Star before for a longer period starting in career. “McGwire’s usage
after injuring his kneecap in their last June's draft. fleeing town. 1993, after he was sidelined with patterns could go a long way in
final preseason game Oct. 23, Griffin averaged 13.7 points and Copyright 2010 by The a heel injury. Baseball analyst helping determine the true effect
wincing in pain as he landed 8 . 1 r e b o u n d s d u r i n g t h e Associated Press Tom Tango notes that, if we of steroids on hitting,” Will
after a dunk. After resting the preseason, and coach Mike throw out the initial period of
Five Filters featured article: Carroll writes at Baseball
stress fracture for several weeks, D u n l e a v y a n d h i s n e w usage and divide McGwire’s
Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Prospectus.
t h e f o r m e r O k l a h o m a s t a r teammates all expected him to be career into the part through 1993
PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, However successful McGwire is
recently increased his workload a major part of their comeback Term Extraction. and the part afterwards, he had as a hitting coach for the St.
in rehabilitation by running on season. Instead, Griffin has never nearly an identical number of Louis Cardinals, his prediction
plate appearances before and skills remain questionable, Rob
after steroids. Yet before he hit
Wall Street titans face the flak 229 homers, and after, 354. “Of
course the McGwire+steroid era
Neyer writes at ESPN. McGwire
told Bob Costas that Cardinals
slugger Albert Pujols “will be
(Financial Times - US use wide-ranging powers to front as the Financial Crisis coincided with the jump in probably the greatest baseball
homepage) establish the causes of the Inquiry Commission, headed by o f f e n s e f o r n o n - s t e r o i d a l player to ever play this game.”
Submitted at 1/13/2010 11:25:15 AM
financial crisis and pursue any Phil Angelides, probed the bail- r e a s o n s , ” T a n g o w r i t e s . Neyer points out that even if
wrongdoing. out of AIG, risk management “Anyway, knock 50 HR from his Pujols doesn’t decline in his 30s,
Four of Wall Street’s top Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman and executive compensation. stats, maybe 100 walks, and turn he’s a long shot to unseat Babe
executives offered some Sachs, Jamie Dimon, chief Five Filters featured article: them into outs. That removes Ruth as the best player ever.
contrition and a defence of their executive of JPMorgan Chase, Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: about 150 runs, or 15 wins,
actions on Wednesday, as the John Mack of Morgan Stanley PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, turning him from Edgar Martinez
head of the Financial Crisis and Brian Moynihan of Bank of Term Extraction. to Carlos Delgado. NOW can we
Inquiry Commission promised to America maintained a united
48 Sports/ Popular News/ E-reader News Edition

McGrady Still Ready, But Rehabbing SpaghettiOs Creator

By Bethlehem Shoals
(Fanhouse Main)
neither of these wily geezers
needed much more than a knee
that supported weight.
Donald Goerke Dies at 83
Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:00:00 AM (FOXNews.com) appeal to kids. He chose the o's.
How much damage has Gilbert They were marketed with the
Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:19:23 AM
Filed under: Rockets, Western Arenas done to his body by unforgettable tagline, "Uh-oh,
Tracy McGrady's premature repeatedly trying to rehab too DELRAN, N.J. -- The Campbell SpaghettiOs."
return was always a bad idea. aggressively from a cluster of Soup Co. executive who was Later, he helped introduce
Not just because this season's knee issues that involved a behind the enduring brands Chunky Soup, a hearty ready-to-
Houston Rockets, either a bunch microfracture treatment? Zach SpaghettiOs and Chunky Soup serve soup that stood out from
of inspired underdogs or the Randolph shrugged off recovery, has died. the company's traditional line of
NBA equivalent of a smart and lurched through 2005-06 -- Donald Goerke (GUHR'-kee) condensed soups.
phone, are fine without him. Nor, and Z-Bo's a player hardly was 83. A Campbell spokesman The Waukesha, Wis., native
seeing as T-Mac's greatest dependent on lift or burst. confirmed that Goerke died of worked for Camden-based
importance to the organization is there's no shame in taking close McGrady had his surgery last heart failure Sunday at his home Campbell for 35 years, retiring in
his gigantic expiring contract, t o a f u l l y e a r o f f b e f o r e February, and since late fall has in Delran in southern New 1990.
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microfracture, baby. Leaps and took the conservative road back being his worst enemy. when his group started dreaming
bounds have been made in (Martin twice). Jason Kidd up pasta in shapes that would
recovery from what once was a jumped right back in, as did early
career-ending procedure. But success story Stockton, but

Grizzlies Game Delayed Due to Emergency, Arena Evacuated

By Brett Pollakoff (Fanhouse the line, pushing L.A.'s lead to we had been led to believe would
Main) 12, when the fire alarms in the be the case. The Clippers
Submitted at 1/13/2010 3:37:00 AM
building started to sound, and the managed just 12 fourth quarter
following rather ominous points, and dropped the game by
Filed under: Clippers, Grizzlies, m e s s a g e a p p e a r e d o n t h e a score of 104-102.
NBA Videos scoreboard. Here's what it looked like to
Some scary stuff went down "May I have your attention those fortunate enough to be
Tuesday night in Memphis, please! An emergency has been watching the game from the
when the Grizzlies' arena (FedEx reported. Leave the building by comfort (and safety!) of their
Foum for the uninitiated) was the nearest exit. Do not use the media and other personnel were broken water main was to blame own homes.
evacuated late in the third quarter elevators." instructed to hang out across the for the alarm being tripped, and
of the home team's game against The fans scampered, teams street while the situation was the game resumed, but with a
the Clippers. Baron Davis was at waited on the Clippers' bus, and sorted out. It turned out that a decidedly different outcome than
E-reader News Edition
Volunteers' Search to
Replace Lane Kiffin Is
Under Way
By Clay Travis (Fanhouse
Main)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 3:29:00 AM
Filed under: Tennessee In
November of 2008, just 14
months ago, Tennessee athletic
director Mike Hamilton(right)
found himself in the exact same
position that he is in today,
searching for a new coach.
Hamilton's search, which ended
in the hiring of Lane Kiffin
offers a template for the modern-
day coaching search and, based
on the details I reported in my
book, "On Rocky Top", we have
a pretty good sense of how this
current search will play out.
The past isn't always prologue,
but it's a pretty good road map.
During his last search, Hamilton
ditched his car in Shoney's
parking lots off interstate exits,
traveled without his normal UT
luggage, flew commercial, never
Armored Core 5: bigger fights, smaller robots
By JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 5:00:00 PM
As usual, Famitsu scans have
beaten official sources to the
punch, with scans of the
magazine's reveal of Armored
Core 5 now online. The article
reveals that AC5 is a PS3/360
appeared publicly with any
candidate, and eventually settled
on Lane Kiffin after conducting
interviews in six major
metropolitan areas.
If you're interested in reading
the full excerpts from the book
about the last search, that link is
right here. In the meantime, let's
get inside Mike Hamilton's head
and find out what he's likely to
be doing as he seeks to replace
Lane Kiffin.
game, built, according to
Siliconera, on the concept of
"mayhem-like mecha action."
The "mayhem" is the result of
the new "more complicated"
three-dimensional stages,
featuring many different heights
from which to attack. These smaller mechs -- the robots will
stages will be populated by come in at around five meters
Carroll Responds to Investment
Sanchez Responding to banks to bear
Carroll brunt of levy
By Ryan Wilson (Fanhouse
Main)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 3:30:00 AM
Filed under: NFL Pete Carroll,
currently one step ahead of
NCAA investigators, is the new
Seahawks head coach. He met
with the media in Seattle
Tuesday and explained that,
among other things, he wasn't
leaving USC because of
recruiting violations.
(Shutdown Corner writer and
ardent Seahawks supporter Doug
Farrar offered this: "Suuuuuure,
Pete. Nothing to do with the
timing at all. Gotcha!" Which is
pretty much what everybody was
thinking.)
In addition to talking about his
new gig, Carroll also discussed
former USC quarterback Mark
Sanchez's recent comments("I
Sports/ Game/ Economy/
just wanted everybody to know I
completely disagree with
[Carroll's] decision [to leave
USC for the NFL] ... Statistics
show that it's not a good
choice."), which were a tongue-
in-cheek reaction to Carroll a
year prior.
Carroll responded to Sanchez's
response to Carroll's initial
remarks (and talked about the
Seahawks, too) below:
tall, instead of ten as in previous
Cores. The smaller mechs will be
more maneuverable, according to
Andriasang's summary of the
article, and able to traverse
smaller areas of the
environments, and even hide in
some corners.
Armored Core 5: bigger fights,
49
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:52:25 PM
Goldman Sachs, Morgan
Stanley and other investment
banks will bear a large share of
the burden of the bank levy
President Barack Obama is set to
announce on Thursday.
People familiar with the matter
said the levy will be based on the
size of banks’ assets minus
insured deposits and shareholder
equity. Insured deposits are
savings that are insured by the
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation in return for a
premium paid by the bank.
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'The Rook' IP acquired for 'television, film, and gaming'
By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:30:00 PM
[ Image credit: Jeremy Brooks]
With little in the way of solid
information, the A.N. Group
recently announced its
acquisition of the intellectual
property rights behind " The
Rook." If you're unfamiliar with
the time-traveling comic book
character of the 1970s and 80s ...
well, we're right there with you.
Apparently he's a descendant of
the family from H.G. Wells'
book The Time Machine that
goes by the name Restin Dane?
Who knew! Anyway, the A.N.
Unlock Xbox finalists announced
By Andrew Yoon (Joystiq)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 4:00:00 PM
Did you vote in last year's
Unlock Xbox competition? If so,
did your pick make the final cut?
Gamers and amateur designers
were encouraged to submit their
original ideas in the Doritos-
sponsored competition. Out of
over a thousand submissions,
two will be turned into real (and
free!) XBLA games. The three
finalists to be considered by
Microsoft execs are:
• Harm's Way-- snipers and
drivers team up in a game that
Group has big plans for the
name, intending to take it "from
the pages of comics and print to
television, film and gaming."
To clarify what that means, we
asked A.N. Group
representatives and were told
"We've got some major plans ...
it's really really interesting stuff."
More specifically, we asked if a
Rook game will show up on
major consoles or something
more ... casual. "I would never
frown on any format or any idea
of that nature, but as far as the
modules for the iPhones with
touch -- I'm much more
interested in the console or PC
combines racing and blowing
someone's brains out. Delicious!
• Avatar Crash Course-- inspired
by Japanese obstacle courses,
you must "press buttons, wiggle
sticks, and jump up and down to
survive."
• Thrown-- "the whole point of
format," creative consultant
Brady Baya told us. "It's still
very much in the infancy stage --
I think there's some connections
with EA, but really we're gonna
it is to smash into other vehicles
in order to throw the driver from
their car and then run them
over." A feel good game!
We're somewhat surprised by
the violence involved in some of
these XBLA suggestions. But
network with all the major
players to see who has a take on
what. I'm thinking there's huge
potential for an MMO as well as
an adventure platform as far as
perhaps we're looking in the
wrong place for class,
considering the last winner of
Doritos' contest involved
dinosaurs eating exploding
trucks(seriously).
Unlock Xbox finalists
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where we wanna go with it."
This, of course, begs the
question -- if Restin can travel
through time, shouldn't he
already know where he'll end
up? Ohhh no, now we're having
an existential crisis. Man, this
always happens.
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Fla. Teen Accused
Corocoro: Pokemon of Lighting Boy
Ranger 3 in Japan this on Fire Goes Free
(FOXNews.com)
March Submitted at 1/13/2010 7:02:48 AM

By JC Fletcher (Joystiq) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. A

Submitted at 1/13/2010 5:30:00 PM 13-year-old arrested after a
South Florida boy was doused
Longing for another chance to with an accelerant and burned
furiously draw circles around won't face criminal charges.
monsters? Good news, a third Jeremy Jarvis was the youngest
Pokemon Ranger game for DS is of five arrested for the alleged
on the way. Serebii reports that attack on Michael Brewer in
Mega Man 10's Robot the latest issue of Japan's
Corocoro Comic features the
October.
Sheriff's deputies recommended
first look at Pokemon Ranger:
Masters revealed Hikari no Kiseki(Path of Light),
which, like the others, puts the
charges of aggravated battery
because Jarvis watched the
attack but did nothing to stop it.
By JC Fletcher (Joystiq) according to the short blurb player in the role of a Ranger damage to your Styler. Prosecutors said Tuesday there
Submitted at 1/13/2010 3:28:00 PM accompanying his portrait. (You equipped with a "Capture Styler" Japanese gamers will be able to wasn't enough evidence to
can see portraits of all eight over that lets you draw energy circles round up Hikari no Kiseki on pursue the charges. They also
CoroCoro magazine has posted on the Mega Man Network.) around Pokemon to trap it. March 9. haven't yet filed charges against
c h a r a c t e r p o r t r a i t s a n d And after the break, see Dueling This third entry takes place on [Via Andriasang] a 16-year-old arrested on the
descriptions of all eight Robot Analogs' take on the new Easy an island setting and features Corocoro: Pokemon Ranger 3 in same allegation. The state has
Masters in Mega Man 10. While Mode, in which the cartoonist tropical Pokemon like -- we're Japan this March originally more time because he is old
there are a few weird ones, for does his very best to make you totally not making this up -- appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 13 enough to be tried as an adult.
the most part, the foes feature the feel ashamed of ever considering Ukulele Pichu. You'll be able to Jan 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please The other three — who poured
usual fire/ice/water/explosive it an option. use "Ranger Signs" to summon see our terms for use of feeds. the alcohol, lit the flame and
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We've seen Sheep Man and Mega Man 10's Robot Masters existing "Poke Assist," which Click here for more from
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52 Fashion/ Popular News/ E-reader News Edition

From Berlin to the National Board of Mark Fast’s Signature

Review
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 11:19:11 AM
Yesterday was a landmark day
for film as the most reliable
predictor of who and what will
win which Oscar (i.e., the
National Board of Review
Awards) was held last night at
New York City’s Cipriani 42nd
Street. Among the winners were
Carey Mulligan for her lead
performance in An Education,
Anna Kendrick for her
supporting turn in Up in the Air,
Gaby Sidibe for her
breakthrough role in Precious,
Clint Eastwood for helming the
Nelson Mandela biopic, Invictus,
and for best picture, Jason
Reitman’s Up in the Air.
As much as we love the award
(And Secretive) Knitters
season to watch our favorite
films and film industry talents
earn recognition, we love it just
as much—if not more if Tilda
Swinton and Cate Blanchett are
in attendance—for their runway
to red carpet parade.
A few hours prior to last night’s
honors, the cast of Sherlock
Holmes attended the Berlin
premiere of their film in just as
high a style as their NBR
attendee counterparts. Though
Jude Law couldn’t be there,
Diane Kruger was and somehow
managed to make a metallic,
laser-cut bolero over top a zip-
front black mini with (upper)
thigh-high leather boots look
downright elegant. Not to be out
RTW-ed at her own party,
Sherlock Holmes’ leading lady,
Rachel McAdams, channeled
Veronica Lake in a fitted,
textured, one-shouldered gown
in deep teal, one of the most
favored colors of the SS10
season.
Judging from what we’ve seen
so far, this year (fingers crossed)
is looking to be the year simple
n’ strapless won’t be Oscar
night’s dominating trend.
Yesterday witnessed four very
different but very striking red
carpet turns, courtesy of (left to
right): Rachel McAdams (in a
modified Alberta Ferretti runway
gown), Diane Kruger (in Karl
Lagerfeld), Carey Mulligan (in
Prada), and Maggie Gyllenhaal
(in Lanvin)
Photos: WireImage
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog) of his own sewing) and in part to
Submitted at 1/13/2010 7:45:05 AM
a collection of eight, no longer in
production “knitters” he picked
Winnipeg-born designer Mark u p i n S w i t z e r l a n d — t h i s ,
Fast is on a roll. Not only has his according to an interview in
name been included among the today’s Canadian National Post
likes of Todd Lynn, Meadham newspaper. After divulging he’d
Kirchhoff and Peter Pilotto for been sourcing the discontinued
prestigious design awards, but machines through eBay, Fast
he’s also gained some serious clammed up, however, and
red carpet stead (Rihanna, offered no further details.
Leighton, and Cassie are all fans) Here’s hoping no machine
a n d b e e n o n e o f t h e f e w malfunctions between now and
designers to walk the walk, so to London Fashion Week, where
speak, on the too-skinny model Fast will introduce his AW10
issue, both of which no doubt collection next month.
helped land the Central Saint Fast’s models do their finale
Martins alum his own soon-to- walk in his knit-heavy SS10
come diffusion line for Topshop. show in London last September
Fast’s design signature lies in Photo: Courtesy of WireImage
his gauzy, almost cobweb-like Follow ELLE on Twitter.
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the 29-year-old owes in part to
his own technique (he does much

US soldiers die in Afghanistan

(BBC News | Americas | in the south. Americans, a Briton and two in a convoy in the Mahmud Raqi agency AFP puts the total
World Edition) Little information was given French soldiers. One of the region, between the Nijrab and number of French soldiers killed
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:12:16 PM
about a bomb which killed two French soldiers was mortally Bagram military bases, the in Afghanistan since the war
more US soldiers. wounded, and died on Tuesday. French presidency said. began in 2001 at 39.
A t t a c k s b y m i l i t a n t s i n A roadside bomb attack to the 'France undeterred' Two other French soldiers were Print Sponsor
Afghanistan have left four US north-east of the capital, Kabul, At least 100,000 foreign military wounded in the same attack. Five Filters featured article:
and one French soldier dead, killed one French soldier. personnel are deployed in President Nicolas Sarkozy Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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now 14. killed in Afghanistan as a result command. dead soldier's family, adding: Term Extraction.
Nato said that one American had of attacks on Monday, the Of these, at least 74,000 are "Today's attack does not dampen
died in fighting in the east while deadliest day for foreign troops American and 3,300 are French. France's desire to pursue its
another succumbed to wounds there in two months. The French soldier killed on mission in Afghanistan."
suffered in a roadside bombing They were identified as three Wednesday had been travelling A count by the French news
E-reader News Edition
'Thousands dead' in Haiti quake
(BBC News | Americas |
World Edition)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:35:34 PM
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"All of a sudden everything was
falling apart... there was no place
to hide"
Haitian President Rene Preval
has said thousands of people are
feared dead following a huge
quake which has devastated the
country's capital.
Mr Preval said the UN mission
chief in Haiti was among the
dead, but the UN cannot confirm
this. It said 14 other UN staff had
died and 56 were injured.
The 7.0-magnitude quake,
Haiti's worst in two centuries,
struck on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Jean-Max
Bellerive told US network CNN
he believed more than 100,000
people had died.
The Red Cross says up to three
million people are affected.
The capital's Catholic
archbishop, Monsignor Joseph
Serge Miot, is also among those
killed.
In his first interview since the
earthquake, President Preval told
the Miami Herald newspaper in
the US he feared thousands of
his people had died.
Describing the scene in the
capital as "unimaginable", he
said: "Parliament has collapsed.
The tax office has collapsed.
Schools have collapsed.
Hospitals have collapsed.
"There are a lot of schools that
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Ten Brazilians, three Jordanians
and one Haitian had been
confirmed killed, a senior UN
official said, adding that the
number was likely to rise.
Stressing a major international
relief effort would be needed,
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-
Moon said the UN would
immediately release $10m
(£6.15m) from its emergency
response fund.
He said aerial reconnaissance
showed Port-au-Prince had been
"devastated" by the quake,
although other areas were largely
unaffected.
The airport in Port-au-Prince is
operational despite the collapse
of the control tower, the UN
said, allowing aid to start
arriving soon.
have a lot of dead people in President Barack Obama vowed The quake, which struck about
The Brazilian army, which has
them." "unwavering support" for Haiti 15km (10 miles) south-west of
the biggest UN contingent in
Mr Preval later said that Hedi after what he called a "cruel and Port-au-Prince, was quickly
Haiti, has said a large number of
Annabi, the Tunisian head of the incomprehensible" disaster. followed by two aftershocks of
its peacekeepers are missing.
UN stabilisation mission in Haiti He said he had ordered "a swift, 5.9 and 5.5 magnitude.
China has indicated in reports in
(Minustah), had died after the co-ordinated and aggressive The first tremor had hit at 1653
state media that eight of its
UN HQ building was destroyed. effort to save lives" and that the local time (2153 GMT) on
peacekeepers are dead, with
The UN said it could not first US rescue teams would Tuesday, the US Geological
another 10 unaccounted for.
confirm the news but that Mr arrive later on Wednesday. Survey said. Phone lines to the
A spokesman for medical
Annabi had been in the building A US Navy aircraft carrier is country failed shortly afterwards.
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many others. smaller vessels are already in the Ban Ki-moon: 'We are facing a
influx" of survivors seeking help
The main prison in Port-au- area, US defence officials said. major humanitarian emergency'
because all its buildings had been
Prince has also collapsed, with a Rajiv Shah, of the US Agency UN officials said at least 14
destroyed.
UN humanitarian spokeswoman for International Development people had died when the UN's
"Unfortunately what we are
saying there had been reports of (USAID), said US teams were on five-storey headquarters and two
seeing is a large number of
escaped inmates. t h e i r w a y t o H a i t i w i t h smaller buildings in Port-au-
patients in critical condition," he
A number of nations, including specialised rescue equipment and Prince collapsed. Around 100
said.
the US, UK and Venezuela, are that some efforts were already were still thought to be missing,
gearing up to send aid. under way on the ground. many feared to be under the
Speaking in Washington, US International effort rubble. 'THOUSANDS page 58
54 Popular News/ E-reader News Edition

Tight penalties weighed for air security scofflaws (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) who runs an airport security passengers were rescreened. through an exit. famously secure Ben Gurion
Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:38:20 PM consulting business in Reno, The TSA now says it's Security guards had more International Airport, said the
Nev. "Most people don't say: 'I'm evaluating its security practices. incentives to catch scofflaws issues exposed by the Newark
NEWARK, N.J. – A Georgia going to breach.'" There have been several other before the TSA was created as a breach go beyond something that
man dashes through a checkpoint The bill proposed by Sen. Frank costly situations over the past response to the 9/11 attacks, he could be solved by better
at the Atlanta airport and gets 10 Lautenberg of New Jersey will decade in which the perpetrators said. Back then, airlines had a technology or procedures.
days in jail. A hairdresser in a call for the tougher penalties, but have gotten off light: bigger role in security, and they "It's a failure to understand the
hurry bypasses security in he has not offered specifics other • A Georgia man was sentenced could be fined for each breach. meaning of information in
Philadelphia and gets a $500 than calling for allowing the to 10 days in jail and 500 hours "With TSA now in the position security terms, and this is a very
fine. A drunken man stumbles federal government to charge of community service — and of guarding the door, they don't strong indication we have a
onto a Chicago airfield and gets people who create scares — even barred from attending University fine themselves for their problem with our analytic
18 months' supervision. All those who are more bonehead of Georgia football games — for mistakes," Laird said. capacity, and we need much
caused major air travel delays than bomber. Such offenses are passing through a checkpoint at Greater penalties for offending more understanding of security
costing millions of dollars — now regulated by local law and Hartsfield Atlanta International passengers wouldn't hurt, but in the intelligence community,"
and all got what critics call a slap often fall far down the scale of Airport, one of the world's unless officials impose fines that he said.
on the wrist. criminal offenses. busiest, causing major problems run into the hundreds of Michael Cintron, director of
The recent shutdown of the The man charged in the Jan. 3 just two months after the terrorist thousands of dollars, they consumer and traveler affairs for
Newark, N.J., airport after a New Jersey case, 28-year-old attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. wouldn't pay for the damages the International Airline
similar breach is drawing calls Rutgers University graduate • A British hairdresser whose they do, Laird said. Passenger Association, said his
f o r h a r s h e r p e n a l t i e s a n d student Haisong Jiang, faces sprint to catch a flight led to the John Galasso, president of group doesn't object to stiffer
h i g h l i g h t s c o n c e r n s a b o u t only a $500 fine — the same as a shutdown of Philadelphia Empire Security Consultants penalties for travelers
punishments not much worse first offense for littering in New International Airport in 2002 was Corp., a New York City-based responsible for breaches — as
than what someone would get for Jersey — if he's convicted in fined $500, plus $148 in court company that works with long as those penalties are
tossing a hamburger wrapper out municipal court. Friends have costs. A possible one-year jail airports, said that Jiang deserves clearly posted in the airport.
the car window on the New s a i d h e w a l k e d t h r o u g h a sentence was suspended. to be punished — he suggested But he said it's hard to blame the
Jersey Turnpike. terminal exit to say goodbye to • A man who walked onto the banning him from flying for a travelers for problems when
At least one senator wants to his girlfriend before she flew to airfield at Chicago Midway few years — but that he doesn't security guards don't do their
make such trespasses a federal Los Angeles. Airport in 2006 was sentenced to think that would deter this kind jobs.
offense. Other ideas include six- A video shows a guard leaving 18 months of supervision. of breach. "The onus in that case is on those
figure fines and flying bans, his post right before Jiang slips Laird, a former security director "There's always one" person who in charge of security for that
though security experts and under the ropes. The guard, an at Northwest Airlines, said the doesn't realize the seriousness of location," he said.
traveler advocates doubt whether e m p l o y e e o f t h e f e d e r a l focus on wanderers is misplaced. airport rules, he said. ___
harsher punishments will deter T r a n s p o r t a t i o n S e c u r i t y The vast majority people of who Hiring people with law- Mulvihill reported from
anybody from breaking the rules. A d m i n i s t r a t i o n , h a s b e e n nearly breach, he said, don't enforcement background to work Philadelphia.
They suggest a better way to s u s p e n d e d . know they're about to go astray for the TSA could help, he said, Five Filters featured article:
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"In most cases, it's a stupid may have cost airlines millions terrorist attack at the hands of consultant and the former
mistake," said Douglas Laird, as a terminal was emptied and someone entering a secure zone security director at Israel's
E-reader News Edition Popular News/ 55

Consumer chief warns: take cheap jewelry from kids (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) legislation that would ban the in children's jewelry to save a to legislation." associations — the China Toy
Submitted at 1/13/2010 2:11:58 PM toxic heavy metal from those few bucks," Schumer told Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., Association and the Gems and
products and toys. reporters outside a dollar store in called word of cadmium in Jewelry Trade Association of
LOS ANGELES – The country's New York Democrat Charles E. Rochester that sold charm jewelry "alarming proof positive China— said they had not
top product safety regulator is Schumer unveiled legislation bracelets with high cadmium that more must be done to received any instructions from
warning parents and caretakers Wednesday that he plans to content. protect our families — especially Beijing to look into cadmium in
to take cheap metal jewelry away i n t r o d u c e w h e n C o n g r e s s Schumer said he'll aim to put the children — from dangerous children's jewelry.
from children out of concern resumes session next week. He proposal on the Senate calendar substances that end up in toys "As far as we know, the big
they may be exposed to toxic said it would "put an end to the in the next month and seek and household items." He said Chinese companies made
heavy metals like lead and use of cadmium in our children's unanimous consent to get it he's drafting a bill that would technological innovation a few
cadmium. jewelry and toys once and for all approved. shift responsibility to make years ago, and lead, nickel and
Inez (EYE-nez) Tenenbaum, the ... whether it's made here or Other members of Congress industry, not government, cadmium levels all met
chairman of the Consumer China or anywhere else. It will have suggested that legislation responsible for proving that standards," said Shi Hongyue,
Product Safety Commission just stop it cold." might be necessary. Congress consumer chemicals are safe. secretary-general of Gems and
writes in a blog, to be posted It is the first specific legislative passed a major consumer product Several major retailers have not Jewelry Trade Association. "We
Wednesday evening, "Do not fix promised by a member of safety overhaul in 2008, waited for guidance from have over 1,000 member
allow young children to be given C o n g r e s s f o l l o w i n g a n following a series of recalls of government. Wal-Mart Stores companies and we are still
or to play with cheap metal Associated Press investigation Chinese made goods. That law Inc. pulled from store shelves looking into the case."
jewelry, especially when they are that documented high levels of barred the use of lead in products several items cited in AP's An employee for the China Toy
unsupervised." cadmium in jewelry bought at for children under 12; in report, including a charm Association, who only gave her
In making the recommendation, major chain stores in the United response, some Chinese jewelry bracelet and "The Princess and surname Qin, said the group
she cites an investigation by The States. manufacturers have turned to The Frog" pendants; on Tuesday, hadn't received complaints from
Associated Press, which reported Cadmium can hinder brain cadmium. the jewelry and accessories store "toy-quality inspection
high cadmium levels in items development in young children, While the Consumer Product Claire's said it would stop selling departments of other countries."
including bracelet charms from according to recent research, and Safety Commission has the a "Best Friends" charm bracelet. ___
Walmart and Claire's. is known to cause cancer. Lab power to go after items with high Meanwhile, an official with Pritchard reported from Los
Lead and cadmium can hinder tests conducted for the AP on cadmium content under the China's product safety agency Angeles. Associated Press writer
brain development in young 1 0 3 p i e c e s o f l o w - p r i c e d Federal Hazardous Substances told AP it would examine the Charles Hutzler contributed to
children, according to research. children's jewelry found 12 items Act, the agency has never findings on cadmium this report from Beijing.
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senior U.S. senator to press for poisonous to children and put it not, she said, "we'll have to turn government-affiliated trade
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Peter Barron from Google: ''We
should no longer agree to censor
our results in China''
Internet giant Google has said it
may end its operations in China
following a "sophisticated and
targeted" cyber attack originating
from the country.
It did not accuse Beijing
directly, but said it was no longer
willing to censor its Chinese
search engine - google.cn.
This could result in closing the
site, and its Chinese offices,
Google said.
Chinese rival Baidu called the
move "hypocritical" and
financially driven. In US trade
on Wednesday Baidu's shares
were up 10%, and Google's
down 1.5%.
Google said the e-mail accounts
of Chinese human rights activists
were the primary target of the
attack, which occurred in
December.
The search engine has now said
it will hold talks with the
government in the coming weeks
to look at operating an unfiltered
search engine within the law in
the country, though no changes
to filtering had yet been made.
Google launched google.cn in
2006, agreeing to some
censorship of the search results,
as required by the Chinese
government.
It currently holds around a third
of the Chinese search market, far
behind Baidu with more than
60%.
Email targeted
In a blog post announcing its
decision, Google's chief legal
officer David Drummond said:
"A primary goal of the attackers
was accessing the Gmail
accounts of Chinese human
rights activists."
The company said its
investigation into the attack
found two accounts of its online
mail service - Gmail - appeared
to have been accessed.
However, the attack was limited
to accessing account information
such as the date the account was
created and subject line, rather
than e-mail content, it said.
It said it had also discovered that
the accounts of dozens of US,
China and Europe-based Gmail
users, who are "advocates of
human rights in China",
appeared to have been "routinely
accessed by third parties".
It said these accounts had not
been accessed through any
security breach at Google, but
"most likely via phishing scams
or malware placed on users'
computers".
At least 20 other large
companies from a wide range of
businesses were similarly
targeted, it added.
'Makes me sick'
In a blog, the chief architect of
Baidu said Google's decision to
quit was for financial reasons,
rather than a human rights issue,
E-reader News Edition
pulled out of China entirely.
BBC technology correspondent
Rory Cellan Jones said Google
had also seen a significant
amount of internal dissent over
its decision to operate under
censorship.
In 2008, it signed the Global
Network Initiative agreement
with rivals Microsoft and Yahoo,
pledging better protection of
online privacy and freedom of
speech against government
interference.
Those commitments, however,
are weighed against the
commercial opportunities that
China provides as a fast growing
market.
Nearly 340 million Chinese
people now online, compared
with 10 million only a decade
as Google had failed to dominate
ago.
the Chinese search market.
Last year, the search engine
"What Google said makes me
market in China was worth an
sick," he said. "If you are to quit
estimated $1bn and analysts
for the sake of financial interest,
previously expected Google to
then just say it."
make about $600m from China
The assumption has always been
in 2010.
that the China market is too big
But unlike most markets,
to walk away from.
Google comes second in search
Foreign firms accept the
in China.
difficult commercial conditions,
It has 31% of the market
the tough competition,
compared with about 60%
government interference or
controlled by market leader
censorship because the prize is
Baidu, which has a close
worth it.
relationship with the Chinese
Google's decision to concede to
government. Yahoo has less than
China's demands on censorship
10%.
in 2006 led to accusations it had
Microsoft has a tiny share of the
betrayed its company motto -
Chinese market with its new
"don't be evil" - but Google
argued it would be more
damaging for civil liberties if it GOOGLE page 58
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Across US, outpouring of grief and help for Haiti
(AP)
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Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:31:33 PM
MIAMI – Hans Mardy has
dialed the numbers hundreds of
times, praying someone — his
father, his sister, one of four
brothers — will pick up the
phone.
He waits, passport in pocket,
ready to board the next flight to
earthquake-ravaged Haiti. He
writes frantic text messages.
"Are you alive? What happened?
Give me a sign of life."
No one answers.
Across the U.S., which has
about 800,000 residents of
Haitian descent, Haitian-
Americans desperately tried to
get word Wednesday from
relatives and friends in the
devastated island nation. Most,
like Mardy, heard nothing back.
Some poured their energy into
relief efforts, joining Americans
with no connection to Haiti who
collected bottled water, canned
goods, medical supplies and
money. Others bowed their
heads in prayer or sat transfixed
by their televisions.
In Evanston, Ill., Bernard Geto
couldn't hold back tears as he
watched CNN at Sweet Nick's
Caribbean restaurant, jumping
each time his cell phone rang. In
South Bend, Ind., Slandah
Dieujuste learned an aunt lost her
house but escaped. She could not
get information about anyone
else.
And as community organizers in
Miami's Little Haiti
neighborhood tried to develop
response plans, 29-year-old
Katia Saint Fleur scoured
Facebook, tears welling in her
eyes.
"Please if you can, contact us
any way, do so," she wrote on a
cousin's page. "We are going
crazy trying to reach you guys."
The State Department has
established a toll-free number
(888-407-4747) for people
seeking information about family
members in Haiti. The
government advises that some
callers may receive a recording
because of the heavy volume of
inquiries.
At the Haitian Consulate in
Manhattan, diplomats struggling
to locate their own families
sobbed as they tried to help
countless callers.
"It is indescribable," said counsel
general Felix Augustine.
People did what they could to
mobilize aid to Haiti, the poorest
country in the Western
hemisphere. The U.S. dispatched
ships, helicopters, planes and a
2,000-member Marine unit.
Cabdrivers transported relief
items to collection points, search
-and-rescue teams headed to the
island to comb through the
rubble, and companies prepared
to send heavy equipment.
In New York, which has a large
Haitian-American population,
Mayor Michael Bloomberg
pledged assistance and suggested
residents donate money to
established organizations rather
than try to send supplies like
food and water to a place that
does not have the infrastructure
to distribute them.
"We saw the world come to our
aid back on 9/11," he said, and
now New York wants to "make
sure that the world comes to the
aid of the Haitian people."
For many still waiting for word,
the uncertainty made it difficult
to focus on anything else.
"You have no life anymore," said
Anel Calixte, a cab driver sitting
with his friend Geto at Sweet
Nick's. "You don't know what to
feel anymore because your
whole family there, your whole
family."
Some tried to hold out hope,
blaming the lack of contact from
relatives on Haiti's poor
communication network, but the
uncertainty was crushing.
Edeline Clermont of Miami got
word that her 12-year-old
nephew was dead. The boy's
parents, brother and sister are
unaccounted for. And all told,
she has more than 20 relatives on
the island she has been
desperately trying to reach.
"I didn't sleep at all. I just lay
there, waiting for answers," she
said with tears in her eyes. "I'm
afraid that everybody is gone."
___
Associated Press writers
Christine Armario, Sarah
Larimer and Lisa Orkin
Emmanuel in Miami; Marcus
Franklin and Cristian Salazar in
New York; Don Babwin in
Chicago and Matthew Barakat in
Chantilly, Va., contributed to this
report.
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continued from page 53 continued from page 56

There were some reports of
looting overnight.
Haiti is the poorest country in
the western hemisphere and has
suffered a number of recent
disasters, including four
hurricanes and storms in 2008
that killed hundreds.
With communications destroyed
by the earthquake, it is not yet
possible to confirm the extent of
the destruction, although there
were reports on Wednesday of
many bodies piled in the streets.
People in the capital were lifting
sheets on bodies to try to identify
loved ones.
The authorities here say 11
soldiers have died and there have
been several injuries, and there
are fears this number could rise.
It has also been confirmed that
Zilda Arns, a prominent
Brazilian aid worker and
paediatrician, has been killed.
She was a sister of the retired
Cardinal Paulo Arns, a major
figure in the Catholic Church
here.
Some soldiers have managed to
make contact to reassure
relatives, but given the damage
to infrastructure at Brazilian
bases, communication is proving
difficult, even for the
government.
Damage has also been reported
in the towns of Jacmel and
Carrefour, near Port-au-Prince.
Guido Cornale, a representative
of the UN children's agency
Unicef, in Jacmel, said it
estimated more than a fifth of
buildings there had been
destroyed.
The Red Cross is dispatching a
relief team from Geneva and the
UN's World Food Programme is
flying in two planes with
emergency food aid.
The Inter-American
Development Bank said it was
immediately approving a
$200,000 grant for emergency
aid.
The head of the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) said it
would co-ordinate with other
international agencies to offer
help as swiftly as possible.
The World Bank also said it was
sending a team to assess the
damage and plan recovery. It
said its offices in Port-au-Prince
had been destroyed but that most
staff were accounted for.
The UK said it was mobilising
help and was "ready to provide
whatever humanitarian
assistance may be required".
Canada, Australia, France and a
number of Latin American
nations have also said they are
mobilising their aid response.
Pope Benedict XVI has called
for a generous response to the
"tragic situation" in Haiti.
Emmet Murphy, who works for
a non-governmental organisation
in Haiti, told the BBC: "I was
driving through the mountains on
my way home to Jacmel when
the car started to shake. It was
like a very strong wind was
blowing and I nearly lost control
of the car.
"I drove further and found the
road totally blocked by a massive
landslide on the road. I just knew
that if I had reached that spot
five minutes earlier, I would
have been killed."
Blogger Troy Livesay, in Port-
au-Prince, wrote: "Thousands of
people are currently trapped. To
guess at a number would be like
guessing at raindrops in the
ocean. Precious lives hang in the
balance.
"When pulled from the rubble
there is no place to take them for
care. I cannot imagine what the
next few weeks and months will
be like."
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fired at random in
Ga. rampage (AP)
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Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:11:46 PM
MARIETTA, Ga. – A former
employee who last worked at an
Atlanta-area truck rental
company six months ago chose
his targets at random when he
went on a shooting rampage and
killed two people, a company
official said Wednesday.
Jessie James Warren, 60,
EXEC: page 60

The Tel Aviv Cluster

(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:05:00 PM
Did you know that Jews are 2
percent of the U.S. population
but 21 percent of Ivy League
students, 37 percent of Academy
Award winning directors, and 51
percent of Pulitizer Prize winners
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nation in the world. David
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Ex-Employee Charged in Fatal Georgia Shooting SPAN Airs Fox/FCC
(FOXNews.com) employees while Marvlanda was Hard. "It is important that we let area, shooting victims along the Profanity Case
Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:16:34 AM a truck driver for a local food law enforcement do their job way, said Hernandez. He did not
distributor that is a Penske without interference." try to enter the building's second (MediaPost | Media News)
MARIETTA, Ga. customer, said Brian Hard, the Barbara Springer, wife of Van floor, which houses a small Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:12:21 PM

MARIETTA, Ga. -- A former president of Penske Truck Springer, said that Warren had administration office.
employee apparently chose his Leasing. been laid off recently and that A man who witnessed the arrest C-SPAN will make the Fox vs.
targets at random in a shooting "It appears to have been random, "he had some issues," though she said the suspect looked "out of FCC profanity case available on-
rampage at an Atlanta-area truck to come in and shoot one of our would not elaborate. She said her his mind" and "all drugged up." demand, online starting around 8
rental business that left two men customers who couldn't possibly family is trying to pull together "The cops walked up on both p.m. Wednesday night, the 13th.
d e a d a n d t h r e e i n c r i t i c a l have been involved in any but they are "not (doing) very sides of the truck, he opened the It will air on C-SPAN 2 starting
c o n d i t i o n , t h e c o m p a n y ' s grievance," Hard said. good." door and they threw him on the at 9 p.m. In both cases, the
president said Wednesday. Warren, who was denied bond It was the second fatal U.S. ground. He pretty much just gave language will not be bleeped,
Jessie James Warren, 60, was in a brief court hearing at the workplace shooting this month. up," Michael Robertson told The reports Multichannel News. The
arrested in his pickup truck Cobb County Jail, worked at Timothy Hendron, an employee Associated Press. court first found that the FCC's
shortly after the Tuesday attack. Penske as a technician from June at an ABB Inc. electrical plant in Lights were on but no one finding, based on fleeting
He is charged with two counts of 2005 until July 2009, said Hard. St. Louis, is accused of shooting appeared to be home Tuesday profanity, was an arbitrary and
murder and five counts of He would not say why Warren hundreds of rounds of night at an address listed for capricious change. However, the
aggravated assault. left the company, but the widow ammunition through the Warren in Temple, a rundown Supreme Court disagreed and
Police said a man dressed in of one of the victims said Warren sprawling plant as about 50 house with an overgrown lawn remanded it back to the Second
camouflage stormed the Penske had been laid off. workers sought refuge. on a rural stretch of two-lane Circuit court.
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Four of the victims were Penske law enforcement officials," said before moving to the truck bay

NYC cabbie returns $21,000 left in taxi

(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:30:00 PM
Good news time! A New York
City taxi driver drove 50 miles
out of his way to return more
than $21,000 in cash that an
Italian grandmother had
accidentally left in his cab. money. Lettieri and her family devout Muslim, he could not
On Christmas Eve, 72-year-old were thrilled to be reunited with accept it and added, “I’m needy,
Felicia Lettieri forgot her the lost goods, saying the good but I’m not greedy. It’s better to
handbag, that also contained deed saved their vacation. be honest.”
jewelry and passports, in cabbie Asadujjaman, also a medical Tons of good news to put a
Mukul Asadujjaman’s taxi and, student, refused any reward. smile on your face.
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donned camouflage and opened
fire at the Penske Truck Rental
facility Tuesday, authorities said.
Warren was arrested about a mile
from the facility and a judge
denied him bond in a brief court
hearing.
Killed were Van Springer, 59,
and Jaider Phillipe Marulanda,
43, said Cobb County Police
Officer Joe Hernandez. A third
victim, 31-year-old Roberto
Gonzalez, was pronounced dead
at WellStar Kennestone Hospital
late Wednesday but his body was
on life support so he could
donate organs, said spokesman
Keith Bowermaster.
Four victims were Penske
employees while Marulanda was
a truck driver for a food
distributor that is a Penske
customer, said Brian Hard, the
president of Penske Truck
Leasing.
"It appears to have been random,
to come in and shoot one of our
customers who couldn't possibly
have been involved in any
grievance," Hard said.
Nestle Revamps Cookie Dough Amid E. Coli Concern
(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 1/13/2010 1:14:30 AM
CHICAGO — Nestle USA will
begin using heat-treated flour in
its Toll House refrigerated
cookie dough, months after the
company temporarily pulled the
product off of store shelves after
Warren, who asked a judge for a
court-appointed attorney, worked
at Penske as a technician from
June 2005 until July, said Hard.
He would not say why Warren
left the company, but Barbara
Springer, a widow of one of the
victims, said Warren was laid
off.
Barbara Springer said Warren
"had some issues," though she
would not elaborate. Police
described Warren as a
"disgruntled ex-employee."
"We are all still trying to
understand what happened and
we are fully cooperating with
law enforcement officials," said
Hard.
It was the second fatal U.S.
workplace shooting this month.
Timothy Hendron, an employee
at an ABB Inc. electrical plant in
St. Louis, was accused of
shooting hundreds of rounds of
ammunition through the
sprawling plant, killing three
men and injuring five others
before killing himself.
In Georgia, about two dozen
the Food and Drug
Administration found evidence
of E. coli contamination.
The unit of Nestle SA said it
will halt production at its
Danville, Virginia, plant from
Wednesday until Jan. 25 in order
convert the plant to use heat-
treated flour.
employees were working at the
Penske office in suburban
Kennesaw, a city about 25 miles
northwest of Atlanta. The Penske
complex consists of a couple of
large buildings with bay doors.
The gunman first confronted
someone in the parking lot
before moving to the truck bay
area, shooting victims along the
way, said Hernandez. Warren did
not try to enter the building's
second floor, which houses a
small administration office.
Injured in the shooting
Zachariah J. Werner, 35, and
Joshua B. Holbrook, 27. The two
men were in critical condition,
said Bowermaster.
After the shootings, authorities
said the gunman hopped in his
pickup truck and sped away.
Cobb County authorities soon
surrounded his vehicle and
arrested him. He has been
charged with two counts of
murder and five counts of
aggravated assault.
A man who witnessed the arrest
said the suspect looked "out of
In June, Nestle recalled the
cookie dough after the FDA said
it was investigating possible
E.coli related illnesses that might
have been related to the eating of
raw cookie dough.
The company resumed
production at the plant using
standards that included testing
his mind" and "all drugged up."
"The cops walked up on both
sides of the truck, he opened the
door and they threw him on the
ground," Michael Robertson
said. "He pretty much just gave
up."
Warren is listed as living in a
rundown house with an
overgrown lawn off a two-lane
highway in the rural west
Georgia town of Temple. No one
answered the door at his house
Tuesday night. Several neighbors
said they didn't know him.
___
Associated Press writer Kate
Brumback in Atlanta contributed
to this report.
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ingredients before they enter the
facility, rigorous environmental
sampling throughout the facility
and testing of finished product
before it is shipped to customers.
On Monday, two samples of
cookie dough tested positive for
E. coli, Nestle said. The
contaminated product was
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More than 100
neglected animals found
at Nev. farm (AP)
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Submitted at 1/13/2010 12:55:03 PM
RENO, Nev. – In one of the
worst cases they can remember,
Nevada agriculture officials have
cited a woman for animal cruelty
for neglecting more than 100
barnyard animals, including 35
starving horses and a goat that
died from eating wool off a
sheep carcass.
Jan Lemley of Battle Mountain
faces 42 counts of animal
cruelty. Each count carries a civil
fine of $1,000, said Nevada
Department of Agriculture
spokesman Ed Foster.
Lemley did not immediately
return a telephone call from The
Associated Press on Wednesday.
She told The Battle Mountain
Bugle, which first reported the
incident, that her attorney had
advised her not to comment.
It was not immediately clear if
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discovered before it was shipped
and dough on store shelves is not
affected, it added.
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NEW YORK NEW YORK --
A young American aid worker --
trapped for about 10 hours under
the rubble of her mission house
that was destroyed in Haiti's
earthquake -- has been rescued
by her husband.
Frank Thorp told CBS's "The
Early Show" by phone from
Haiti on Wednesday that he
drove 100 miles to Port-au-
Prince once he learned of the
quake, and dug for over an hour
to free his wife, Jillian, and her
co-worker Charles Dietsch. The
two were trapped under about a
foot of concrete, he said.
"It was absolutely terrifying,"
Thorp said.
Thorp said he was in an area
about 6 hours north of the capital
when the temblor struck. He got
a quick call from his wife telling
him she was trapped, and that
was all. So he began his long
drive toward the devastation.
Meanwhile, the woman's father
said, other colleagues were
feverishly working to dig the two
out as she directed them where to
focus the search.
Arriving at the destroyed house,
Thorp said he saw his wife's
hand from under the rubble and
heard her tell him to keep it
together and just get her out.
"We had to pull bricks and bricks
and bricks and wood and doors
and metal away for at least an
hour before we were able to get
her and her co-worker out," he
said.
Clay Cook, the woman's father,
told CNN his son-in-law drove
through the night and pitched in
for the final hour.
"He literally lifted her out of the
hole when they finally got her
free," Cook said.
Thorp is the son of retired Rear
Adm. Frank Thorp, who retired
in August as the Navy's chief
information officer.
The executive director of
Haitian Ministries for the
Diocese of Norwich, Conn.,
Emily Smack, told CBS a
security guard at the mission
house is still missing. A
housecleaner had severe injuries
and may lose both legs, she said.
Cook, of Old Saybrook, Conn.,
describes his daughter and son-in
-law as "a strong couple" who
each had their own trial to
endure.
"Jill was pinned in the rubble and
Frank was driving through the
darkness, not sure what was
waiting for him at the end of the
drive," he said.
The 7.0-magnitude tremor
caused massive destruction in the
Haitian capital. Untold numbers
remain trapped, and the death
toll has so far been impossible to
calculate.
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any criminal charges would be
filed.
Lander County Sheriff Ron
Unger said two of the horses,
three llamas, three goats and two
sheep died at the rural property
in Battle Mountain about 220
miles east of Reno.
Foster said a state veterinarian
became physically ill upon
arrival at the scene last weekend.
"It's the worst case of animal
cruelty they've ever witnessed,"
Foster told The Associated Press
on Wednesday. "It's really sad."
The two horses — which a
neighbor had described as
"walking skeletons" — died
from severe malnutrition and at
least one of the starving goats
died from ingesting wool, Foster
said.
"There was nothing to eat, so
they started eating wool off the
sheep carcasses," he said.
Unger did not immediately
return a call seeking comment.
He told the Bugle that 53 goats,
24 llamas, 20 sheep, six pigs and
an assortment of chickens and
rabbits remained on the property
under the control of Lander
County and the sheriff's office.
Foster said one of the horses
was dead when inspectors
arrived and the other died the
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following day. The 33 surviving
horses have been transferred to
an undisclosed location where
they are receiving round-the-
clock care from state
veterinarians.
Unger said a judge will decide
what happens to the horses.
Sid Slate, a neighbor who
moved to the area six months
ago from Lyle, Wash., was one
of the people who reported the
abuse. He said he was sickened
by what he saw.
"From the last month driving by,
we could see the ribs on the
horses," he said. "I saw a few
horses that looked like nothing
but walking skeletons."
State brand inspector Blaine
Northrup, who also visited the
site, said Wednesday he'd never
seen such hungry animals.
"This is the first time I've ever
run into a barnyard and had
chickens running toward me," he
said.
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they take. “It’s almost as if
you’re at a blackjack table where
you can never really get wiped
out,” he said to Mr Dimon.
Mr Dimon kept to the stock
response about being paid in
stock, arguing that as people
become more senior, they pay a
price when the company pays a
price. However he acknowledged
that in some ways it is one sided.
An unimpressed Mr Angelides
retorted that, “the downside
compared to most Americans is
not nearly the same.”
12:15pm
Mr Angelides digs in further to
find out what Mr Blankfein’s
responsibility is when Goldman
Sachs’ name is on a security.
“You weren’t just a market
maker, you were securitising
mortgages,” Mr Angelides said.
In response, Mr Blankfein stuck
to his story that he was dealing
with sophisticated investors who
sought that exposure.
“I know it’s become part of the
narrative that people know what
was going to happen at every
minute,” Mr Blankfein said. “We
didn’t know what was going to
happen.”
12:13pm
With the few extra minutes
remaining Mr Angelides lays
into Mr Blankfein a little more.
12:08pm
Commissioner Bill Thomas
promises all the CEOs that all of
the information they will be
sending to the commission will
be handled appropriately. He
also promised to be “pushy” to
get timely responses if needed.
11:59am
Blankfein on AIG: “A failure of
risk management of colossal
proportions”.
11:53am
Still facing heat for shorting
products that Goldman sold, Mr
Blankfein argued that the bank
was purely following its risk
management protocols. He said
that as a syndicator of certain
products, Goldman found
themselves to be long on them
and that they were trying to get
“closer to home”. He also said
that while the bank has been
producing research that was
downbeat on the housing market
in 2006, he was first alerted to
serious problems in the subprime
market by reading them in the
press.
11:48am
Mr Blankfein said that Goldman
had $10bn in exposure to AIG.
As it began to pull back, it had
$7.5bn in cash and took out
$2.5bn in credit protection
against AIG’s default.
11:45am
Commissioner Peter Wallson,
before digging into Goldman’s
exposure to AIG, said he does
not envy the fact that Mr
Blankfein’s name begins with a
“B”, forcing him to take each
question first.
11:32am
Commissioner Keith Hennessey
peppers Mr Blankfein on the idea
of “too big to fail”. He asks if he
thinks that the government
would rescue Goldman or any of
the other banks being questioned
if they were about to collapse.
“At some level the government
would intervene,” Mr Blankfein
said, noting that shareholders
would not feel any relief from
this. “There would be something
done because of the fragility of
the system.” He went on to say
that he was not sure if this would
have been true a year and a half
ago or a year from now.
11:29am
Still on the hot seat, Mr Dimon
faced a good question about
what it means for the economy
that bank compensation has
drawn so much talent away from
fields such as engineering. The
CEO replied using his brother
who has a PhD in physics as an
example, claiming that he would
never pretend to get into
something as “mundane” as
trading and that the trend might
reverse at some point. “Different
strokes for different folks,” he
said.
11:26am
Mr Dimon, putting the financial
crisis in perspective, reminds the
panel crises happen every five to
10 years. “It’s not a surprise or a
mystery”, Mr Dimon said. He
went on to make the point that
there needs to be a regulator that
can see the bigger picture and
understand how emerging
problems can boil over.
11:23am:
Mr Mack contends that the US
needs a consolidated regulator
with more resources that is tied
to other regulators across the
world. This “super-regulator”
would need to be able to keep up
with the accelerating complexity
of financial products and
practices. The idea of a global
regulator has been highly
controversial because some
argue it would mean outsourcing
US lawmaking to other
countries.
11:17am
They’re back. Commissioner
John Thompson is back on Mr
Blankfein, who said it was
“amazing” that post-Enron off-
balance sheet risk remained a
problem. “I think it’s quite a big
lapse,” Mr Blankfein said.
However, Mr Blankfein went on
to argue that one of the biggest
challenges to re-regulating the
economy is to resist taking all
the leverage, or risk, out of
financial markets so that the
“growth engine” of the economy
stalls.
11:07am
The panel is taking a 5 minute
break.
11:03am
Defending the intentions of
himself and his colleagues, Mr
Blankfein said that the mistakes
of banks were due to failures of
risk management. “Most of the
problem wasn’t the cynicism of
companies that held these
products and knew they were
toxic,” he said. “They didn’t
know they were toxic.”
10:58am
Mack on mortgages: “We did
eat our own cooking and we
choked on it”.
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10:55am
Mr Holtz-Eakin probed Mr
Dimon on how it was possible
that so many mortgages went
bad in the US. JPMorgan’s chief
blamed bad products (such as
option arms), bad actors (shady
mortgage salesmen) and
speculation (people buying
homes purely as investments).
10:52am
On the rating agencies, Mr
Blankfein acknowledged that
higher ratings created a sense of
complacency. “To some extent I
also had been deferring to a
rating agency,” Mr Blankfein
said.
10:45am
Commissioner Douglas Holtz-
Eakin, who advised John
McCain’s presidential campaign,
is hammering away at risk
management practices. Mr
Blankfein, who is probably
starting to wish his name began
with a Z, called for more internal
stress testing. Jamie Dimon
acknowledged that while his
bank did stress test many areas,
they did not have stress tests
showing that US home prices
would fall 40 per cent.
Rationalising his mistakes, he
said, “If you do everything right
in business, you’re going to
make mistakes”.
10:38am
Mr Blankfein, back in the hot
seat, is continuing to dance
around the compensation
question.
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Google and China
Jan 13th 2010 | BEIJING
From Economist.com Google's
plan to leave China may be as
much about poor business
prospects as ethics
“WE’RE in this for the long
haul”, wrote a Google executive
four years ago when the internet
giant launched a self-censored
version of its search engine for
China. Now Google says it might
have to pull out of the country
because of alleged attacks by
hackers in China on its e-mail
service and a tightening of
restrictions on free speech
online.
Google’s “new approach to
China”, as the firm’s chief legal
officer, David Drummond, called
it in an official blog posting on
Tuesday January 12th, will
infuriate the government in
Beijing. Official sensitivity to
foreign complaints about internet
controls in China was evident in
November during a visit by
President Barack Obama. His
obliquely worded criticism of
online censorship was itself
expunged from official media
reports. If the firm were to quit
China, Google would be the first
big foreign company to do so
while citing concerns about
freedom of speech.
Mr Drummond’s posting also
involved unusually direct finger-
pointing by a foreign firm at
China as a source of hacker
attacks. He said that in mid-
December Google detected a
“highly sophisticated and
targeted attack” on its corporate
computer systems “originating
from China”. Its investigations
found that at least 20 other large
companies from a wide range of
industries had been targeted. A
primary goal, he said, appeared
to be to gain access to the e-mail
accounts of Chinese human-
rights activists who use Google’s
Gmail service. The hackers
managed to penetrate partially
two accounts.
The Gmail accounts of dozens
of other advocates of human
rights in China based in
America, Europe and China itself
had also been “routinely
accessed by third parties”, Mr
Drummond wrote. Unlike the
mid-December attack, these
breaches appeared to involve
phishing scams or malware on
the users’ computers rather than
direct attacks on Google’s
systems. He said these attacks,
combined with “attempts over
the past year to further limit free
speech on the web”, had led
Google to “review the
feasibility” of its business in
China.
The company has decided to
stop censoring the results of
Google.cn, its China-based
search engine. Mr Drummond
said this might result in having to
shut down Google.cn and
Google’s offices in China. In the
face of much criticism from
Western human-rights advocates,
Google justified its decision to
set up Google.cn in 2006 by
pointing out that China often
blocked its uncensored
Google.com search engine.
Better to offer a censored service
(with warnings to users that
results were filtered), the
company argued, than offer
nothing at all. China would
certainly not allow an
uncensored search engine to be
based on its territory.
In Silicon Valley, the home of
Google, the decision has been
widely applauded. But some are
asking whether it was “more
about business than thwarting
evil” to quote TechCrunch, a
popular website. Despite its
concessions to the Chinese
government, the argument goes,
Google had not made any
headway against Baidu, China's
leading search engine—and
probably never will. In any case
Google's revenues in China are
“truly immaterial”, according to
Mr Drummond, and its costs are
not. It employs about 700 people
in China, some of them royally
paid engineers. Hacker attacks
and censorship, critics say, may
be convenient excuses for
something Google wanted to do
anyway–without it looking like a
commercial retreat.
Nor had Google’s acquiescence
to self-censorship of its searches
made China any less wary of the
company’s other, non-censored,
services. Google’s video-sharing
site, YouTube, has been blocked
since March, because it carried
footage of Chinese police
beating Tibetan monks. Its photo
-album site, Picasa Web Albums,
has since suffered the same fate.
Access to Google’s blog service,
Blogger, has long been
intermittent. (It is currently
unavailable in Beijing.)
Google’s frustrations are widely
shared. Before the Olympic
games in Beijing in August
2008, China lifted longstanding
blocks on several websites in an
effort to present a more open
image to visitors. Since then,
controls have been stepped up to
unprecedented levels. Internet
access throughout the western
region of Xinjiang has been all
but cut off since the eruption of
ethnic riots there in July. The
unrest also prompted a
nationwide closure of foreign
social-networking sites such as
Twitter and Facebook.
The role of such sites in Iran’s
upheaval in June had already
alarmed the government. Its fear
of dissent erupting around the
60th anniversary in October of
the founding of communist
China prompted even greater
vigilance against sensitive debate
online. Since then there has been
no sign of relaxation. In recent
weeks, officials have tightened
restrictions on the registration of
websites under the .cn domain
name (businesses only may
apply). A crackdown on internet
pornography has led to closer
scrutiny by internet-service
providers of non-porn websites.
E-reader News Edition
In December, Yeeyan, a site
providing translations of articles
from foreign newspapers
including the Guardian and the
New York Times, was closed
down for several days. It was
allowed to reopen after putting
tighter controls in place on the
publishing of politically sensitive
pieces. Ecocn.org, a site offering
Chinese translations of articles in
The Economist, was also shut
down briefly as officials trawled
for pornography, but re-emerged
unscathed. The volunteers who
maintain the site make sensitive
articles available only to users
they trust.
The anti-porn drive turned up
the heat on Google too. Last year
Google.cn was among several
search engines in China accused
by the authorities of providing
links to pornographic sites. The
state-controlled media gave
particular prominence to
Google’s alleged transgressions,
which the company promised to
investigate. The Chinese media
have also published frequent
criticisms in recent months of
Google’s alleged violations of
Chinese copyright in its Google
Books search facility.
But China is clearly fearful that
the company’s stand against
censorship will be celebrated by
many Chinese internet users.
Chinese news accounts of the
company’s decision failed to
mention the reason for Google’s
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10:29am
Keeping pressure on pay, which
has been among the most
politically sensitive subjects,
Commissioner Robert Graham
asked John Mack what Morgan
Stanley means when he talks
about performance in relation to
pay. Mr Mack said that
performance generally means
profitability and how much risk
is required to achieve that
profitability.
10:20am
Mr Blankfein, who has faced all
of the questions so far, defended
Goldman’s pay practices,
arguing that compensation was
down by 50 per cent last year
and that he is paid mostly in
stock. He also reminded the
commission that he must hold 90
per cent of his shares until he
retires. “Pay of senior people at
Goldman Sachs has always
correlated with the success of the
firm,” he said.
10:15am
Heather Murren hits Mr
Blankfein on AIG, regulation
and compensation.
10:05am
Saying that he’s not trying to get
Mr Blankfein to “cry uncle”, Mr
Angelides continued to press the
issue. In response to Mr
Blankfein’s comparison to the
financial crisis as being similar
to an earthquake or hurricane,
Mr Angelides retorted: “Acts of
God will be exempt, these were
acts of men and women”. Next
question.
10:03am
Goldman’s CEO, leaning
halfway across the table, said
that while the position that the
bank was in was difficult, it was
not planning on relying on
government assistance. He
reminded the commission that
the bank still had access to the
capital markets and that neither
he nor anyone else can know
what would have happened
without government support.
9:56am
Mr Angelides tore into
Goldman’s vaunted risk
management abilities. He listed a
litany of ways that Goldman
benefited from government
assistance. He asked: “When you
look at the amount of leverage
that you had, do you really
believe that your risk
management was sufficient for
you to survive were it not but for
the government assistance that
you received?”
9:52am
Mr Blankfein, getting defensive,
claims that Goldman is merely a
market maker and can be a
winner or a loser after such a
transaction. Speaking over each
other, Mr Angelides says that Mr
Blankfein’s actions are like
selling a car with faulty brakes
and then buying an insurance
policy on it. Voices raised, Mr
Blankfein reminds him that the
institutions Goldman is dealing
with are “professional” investors
dedicated to this business.
9:50am
Mr Angelides asks Mr
Blankfein about how Goldman
can justify betting against
securities, mostly subprime, that
the bank was selling to
institutions and investors. Mr
Angelides called the action
“cynical” and said that it
appeared to undermine the
market.
9:43am
Prepared testimony is over.
Asked what he would apologise
for, Mr Blankfein said that his
bank participated in elements
that caused “froth” in the market,
pointing to overuse of leverage.
However, he refused to call it
misbehaviour, noting that in the
context of the world they were
in, those were “typical” actions.
9:41am
Echoing the populism that
Congress is looking to hear, Mr
Moynihan said, “Over the course
of this crisis, we as an industry
caused a lot of damage. Never
has it been clearer how mistakes
made by financial companies can
affect Main Street, and we need
to learn the lessons of the past
few years.”
9:40am
Up now is Brian Moynihan,
BofA’s new boss. He breaks the
crisis down into four parts: (1) a
mortgage crisis in the US and
abroad; (2) a capital markets
crisis; (3) a global credit crisis;
and (4) a severe global recession.
9:36am
Mr Mack also hammered away
at the idea of banks being too big
to fail. He called for a systemic
risk regulator and said that
oversight and regulation have not
kept pace with the complexity of
financial products. “They were
meant to spread risk, but they
had the opposite effect,” he said.
9:33am
John Mack, speaking more
deliberately than Mr Dimon,
called the last two years unlike
anything he has seen in the last
40.
9:26am
Jamie Dimon, speed-talking and
peering over his spectacles,
boasted about JPMorgan’s
performance throughout the
crisis, reminding the commission
that the bank never suffered a
quarterly loss, thanks to its
strong loan loss reserves and
high levels of liquidity. The CEO
resisted placing any blame on
regulators, but argued that no
institution should be “too big to
fail”. Instead, he said,
shareholders and creditors, rather
than taxpayers, should be the
ones bearing risk.
9:19am
Mr Blankfein acknowledged
that Goldman Sachs benefited
from the government support
that was used to rescue the
financial system and said that the
support was “without question”
needed for stabilising the
economy. He argued that in the
future, there should be more
frequent public stress tests and a
system that allows private capital
to be deployed to cushion future
collapses rather than government
funds. Finally, he pointed to a
lack of scepticism about the
rating agencies that ultimately
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underestimated risk-taking.
9:07am
Phil Angelides, head of the
FCIC commission, stared down
Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon,
John Mack and Brian Moynihan
and reminded everyone of the
anger being felt among the
American people. “They have a
right to be. This forum is the
eyes, ears and voice of the
American people”. Ten minute
testimonies begin in alphabetical
order with Lloyd B. - AR
8:30am ET
Live coverage of the Financial
Crisis Inquiry Commission
begins here at at 9am. Congress
will first probe chief executives
of top US banks about the causes
of the financial crisis, with free
reign to question them on
everything from their pay
packets to the financial
instruments that sparked the
meltdown. Regulators will also
be on the hot seat, with Sheila
Bair, FDIC chairman and Mary
Schapiro, SEC chairman, due to
face questions. - Alan Rappeport
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rarefied world of Chinese export
porcelain
THE West’s trade with China
has been at the forefront of
globalisation since the days of
Marco Polo. Pieces of eight,
minted out of South American
silver, crossed the Pacific and
were used up and down the coast
of Asia. Indeed, interruptions in
this silver trade ultimately helped
bring on the collapse of the Ming
dynasty in China in the early
17th century. Later exchanges of
tea, spices and then opium
served to enrich Western
merchants, particularly from
Britain.
By the 18th century, British,
Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish and
American trade with China was
so well established that the new
wealthy merchant class it created
had taken to emulating the
trappings of the landed gentry,
designing coats of arms and
commissioning entire porcelain
services on which to flaunt them.
No marriage or promotion was
complete without a specially
made plate to commemorate it.
This upward social mobility
gave rise to a new phenomenon,
the manufacture of Chinese
porcelain and paintings for the
export market.
Two centuries on, Chinese
export porcelain attracts a quite
different collector from those
seeking Chinese porcelain
proper. Whereas all Chinese
treasures—whether jade,
porcelain, lacquer, bamboo or
rhinoceros horn—have an
aesthetic appeal that prizes rarity,
delicacy and symbolism above
all, export porcelain speaks to
the academic collector or, less
politely, the “anorak” or “train-
spotter”. The form is based on
Meissen or other soft-paste
porcelain, but it is not really
European. Nor is it particularly
Chinese, although it was made
there.
Instead, it is a bit of a mish-
mash. It appeals to buyers who
seek to complete a particular
series defined by decorative
patterns, special coats of arms or
links between different families.
Elinor Gordon, who died last
July at the age of 91, was the
consummate American
dealer/collector of Chinese
export porcelain. She bought
widely in Britain, Holland and
Portugal, and for more than half
a century sold her wares from
her Pennsylvania home and at
antiques fairs up and down the
East Coast. Her private
collection, which will be
auctioned at Sotheby’s in New
York on January 23rd, shows
just how much American-related
export porcelain she managed to
gather together.
Many of the pieces feature
complicated combinations of
different coats of arms. Several
pieces stand out, such as a
grandly decorated orange oval
platter of modest size, which
boasts an American eagle
(pictured above). Estimated at
$12,000-18,000, it belongs to a
pattern known as “Fitzhugh”, of
which so few pieces were made
it is suspected that they all were
once part of the same service.
Several other pieces are
connected to a single ship, the
Empress of China, which in 1784
became the first American vessel
to trade directly with China. The
Society of the Cincinnati was
founded in May 1783 for
commissioned officers who had
served in the continental army or
navy during the American
revolution. The founder’s aide-
de-camp, Major Samuel Shaw,
was responsible for ordering all
the services decorated with the
society’s badge. He first
travelled to China on Empress of
China, and spent more than ten
years working the same route,
dying at sea on a return trip in
1794. A plate from one of the
earliest Cincinnati services,
which is believed to have
belonged to George Washington,
is estimated to fetch $30,000-
50,000, and another smaller, later
Cincinnati plate $12,000-18,000.
John Morgan was a carpenter on
the same first outward journey
on Empress of China, and died
on the return. The ship’s log
notes that his effects included
two punch bowls. Ms Gordon
owned several Morgan pieces,
including a small tureen
estimated here at $3,000-5,000
and a larger version, both with
lids, estimated at $7,000-9,000.
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actions. Chinese web portals
buried the story. Many internet
users in China have become
adept at finding ways of
circumventing China’s blocks on
overseas websites, including the
installation of “virtual private
network” software. Numerous
tributes to Google that rapidly
appeared on Chinese internet
discussion forums, and flowers
laid outside Google’s office in
Beijing, showed that the
authorities’ attempts at
censorship had failed. Few,
however, believe that the
company’s announcement will
dissuade China from keeping on
trying.
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Obama Approval on Terrorism Up to 49%

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U.S. Fear of Terrorism Steady After Foiled Christmas Attack
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PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup
polls bracketing the 2009
Christmas Day terror incident --
in which a Nigerian man
attempted to explode a bomb
hidden under his clothes on a
Northwest Airlines flight --
document little change in U.S.
public concern about being
victimized by terrorism.
Just prior to the incident, a Dec.
11-13 Gallup survey found 39%
of Americans either "very" or
"somewhat" worried that they or
a family member could be a
victim of terrorism. In the latest
USA Today/Gallup poll,
conducted Jan. 8-10, 42% are
worried. Across the same period,
the percentage saying they are
"not worried at all" did fall
slightly, from 28% to 22%.
Americans' current level of
anxiety about terrorism is close
to the average seen on this
Gallup measure since Sept. 11,
2001 (which is 41%). Since then,
the highest recorded percentage
saying they were very or
somewhat worried was 59% in
early October 2001 and the
lowest was 28% in January 2004
(a few weeks after Saddam
Hussein was captured in Iraq).
Anti-Terror Steps Get Mixed
Reviews
After his receipt of an
intelligence report detailing
failures that led to the Northwest
Airlines incident, President
Obama stated in a Jan. 7 speech
that the U.S. is at war, and
outlined several new anti-
terrorism directives.
Four in 10 Americans (42%)
believe Obama's prescriptions
for preventing terrorism in the
wake of the Christmas Day terror
incident fall short of what is
needed, but nearly as many
(38%) say these measures are
about right, and 4% say they go
too far.
No partisan group, including
Democrats, is widely satisfied
with the new actions being
proposed. Among the three
major groups, the percentage
saying the measures are about
right ranges from 50% among
Democrats to 35% among
independents and 27% among
Republicans. Substantial
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country from terrorism.
Among the more visible anti-
terrorism measures Obama
ordered in his Jan. 7 speech is
funding for body scanners for
screening airline passengers.
While most Americans favor
using this technology at airports,
far fewer -- 38% -- believe the
entire set of new initiatives is
sufficient to protect Americans.
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Survey Methods
Results are based on telephone
interviews with 1,023 national
adults, aged 18 and older,
conducted Jan. 8-10, 2010. For
results based on the total sample
segments of all three groups of terrorism since the Sept. 11 of national adults, one can say
( i n c l u d i n g a m a j o r i t y o f attacks and 53% say it has made with 95% confidence that the
Republicans) think the measures a fair amount of progress. Far maximum margin of sampling
don't go far enough. fewer -- a combined 26% -- say error is ±4 percentage points.
Americans and, in particular, there has not been much progress Interviews are conducted with
Democrats, are more supportive (22%) or no progress at all (4%). r e s p o n d e n t s o n l a n d - l i n e
of Obama on the broader issue of Bottom Line telephones (for respondents with
terrorism. In contrast to the 38% Although the Christmas Day a land-line telephone) and
who say Obama's new anti- bomber failed to bring down cellular phones (for respondents
terrorism policies are about right, Northwest Airlines Flight 253, who are cell-phone only).
49% of Americans in the same his attempt represented a clear In addition to sampling error,
p o l l - - i n c l u d i n g 7 3 % o f act of terrorism against the question wording and practical
Democrats-- approve of Obama's United States nearly a decade difficulties in conducting surveys
overall handling of terrorism. after 9/11. Nevertheless, the can introduce error or bias into
When thinking longer term level of public fear of terrorism the findings of public opinion
about U.S. anti-terrorism efforts, today remains about average for polls.
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