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McCain says he was misled, but not everyone
agrees
David Morgan (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:25:44 AM
John McCain says he was
misled by former Treasury
Secretary Henry Paulson into
supporting the Wall Street
bailout.
“We were all misled,” the
Arizona Republican told NBC’s
“Meet the Press” over the
weekend.
Misled in what way?
With the economy showing
every sign of burning to the
ground, McCain says Paulson
told Congress the Bush
administration wanted to buy up
toxic mortgages blamed for the
conflagration. But he turned
around and gave the money
directly to Wall Street.
“Whoever thought that we
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would, when we passed that, we
would own General Motors and
Chrysler, GMAC? I mean, it’s
beyond what anyone had
anticipated,” McCain said.
Dick Durbin, a leading Senate
Democrat, confirms part of the
story: Paulson’s initial pitch was
for money to buy up bad
mortgages; then the focus
switched to Wall Street’s
balance sheets.
But Durbin, who like McCain
has been in Congress for 28
years, says it’s difficult to see
that as misleading.
“It’s hard to understand how
John McCain could have been
brainwashed by Hank Paulson,”
the Illinois senator said on
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“The bottom line is, whether we
were buying toxic assets or
cleaning up their balance sheets,
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we were helping big banks and
big insurance companies. We
knew what all that was all
about,” Durbin said.
“At the end of the day, hundreds
of billions of dollars were going
to stabilize Wall Street.”
McCain’s efforts to distance
himself from the $700 billion
TARP bailout may show how
angry voters are about
Washington’s willingness to
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help Wall Street during the
worst recession since the 1930s,
among other things.
Conservative voters, especially.
Politico says McCain had more
power than anyone as the
Republican presidential
nominee to derail the Troubled
Asset Relief Program in the fall
of 2008.
Now McCain is up for re-
election and facing a serious
primary challenge from
conservative J.D. Hayworth, a
former Republican congressman
running with Tea Party support.
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Does it matter if the president Severn surfers ride once

smokes? -a-decade tidal wave
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row (Top stories from Times the Araguari river in northern
Washington) Online) Brazil.
Submitted at 3/1/2010 12:50:03 PM Submitted at 3/2/2010 4:14:57 AM Mr King’s feat was
accomplished in an ordinary
In the current anti-smoking A once-in-a-decade tidal wave year on the Severn where only
mood in the United States where surged down the River Severn four-star tidal waves were
having a cigarette is banned just this morning carrying a horde recorded. A surge the size of
about everywhere that is public, of surfers relishing the rare today’s wave, around two
how big of a deal is it if the natural phenomenon. metres high, was last recorded
president of the United States The Environment Agency on Saturday March 30, 2002.
lights up once in a while? classified today’s wave as a top- A spokeswoman for the
The question puffed up on rated five star event on the Environment Agency said the
Sunday when President Barack stretch of river that boasts the most powerful waves were seen
Obama’s routine medical exam second highest tide in the world. roughly once every ten years.
showed he was in good health Joanne Hillman, of the British The phenomenon is caused by
but still struggling with the habit Surfing Association, said board the funnel shape of the estuary,
that last June he said was “95 nearest corner shop to buy a each and every day,” Gibbs said. enthusiasts had been competing which narrows as it moves
percent cured.” pack secretly). “I don’t smoke, A New York Times story about to take the longest ride on the inland from the Bristol Channel
W h i t e H o u s e s p o k e s m a n so I don’t know the answer to Obama’s smoking, published Severn Bore since the 1960s. thereby forcing the water level
Robert Gibbs said Obama that,” Gibbs said. when he was president-elect, “It’s pretty dangerous with trees to rise.
continues to chew nicotine gum Also unknown to us is where also mentioned the habits of and debris in the water so only “Large spring tides come a
and has quit smoking but does Obama actually go to presidents before him. It said the skilled surfers take on the couple of times a year but when
occasionally falls off the wagon smoke on those occasions when last president to smoke more Bore,” she told The Times. Atlantic tidal levels combine
“like many who have struggled he falls off the wagon, since he than occasionally was Gerald “It must be one of the toughest with the right river conditions
with kicking that habit. ” doesn’t smoke in front of his Ford who liked his pipe. surfing challenges in the world you have these more powerful
Was it more difficult to quit children and he lives in a house Does it matter to you whether a because they key is to ride the Bores,” she said.
because this was probably his full of people running around president smokes once in a wave for miles. Most surfers The Bay of Fundy, located
most stressful year? “I can’t tending to the needs of the first while? would struggle to last the between Nova Scotia and New
imagine that that helps,” Gibbs family. There are balconies, a For more Reuters political distance.” Brunswick in Canada is the
replied. Obama “continues to big backyard (although he’d news, click here Steve King, a father of three only place in the world to have
both work hard at it as well as probably be spotted there), and Photo credits: Reuters/Daniel from Saul, near Gloucester, recorded a larger rise between
struggle with it probably each many nooks and crannies at the M u n o z ( m a n e x t i n g u i s h e s mastered the Bore in 2006 to low and high tide. On the
and every day,” he said. White House. c i g a r e t t e i n A u s t r a l i a ) , regain the Guinness World Severn the difference in any one
But there were no additional “I don’t doubt that he would tell Reuters/Yuri Gripas (White Record for Britain by staying on day can be more than 14.5
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Obama fights off high cholesterol
with stroll to White House
Jeff Mason (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 3:06:26 PM
Barack Obama does not appear
pleased that his cholesterol is
borderline high.
The lanky U.S. president, who
carries 180 pounds on a 6-foot-1
-inch frame, got the word on
Sunday that he needed to reduce
his “bad” cholesterol levels
from 138 to 130 through
changes in his diet.
So the basketball-buff took a
walk — from a speech at the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
back to the White House, a short
distance away.
Joking with reporters who
asked about his health while he
strolled, Obama said he needed
to work off “some of that
cholesterol,” a problem he
seemed to blame on his diet
during the 2008 presidential
campaign.
“That’s a year of campaigning
right there,” he said.
Obama’s spokesman, Robert
Gibbs, said dessert options at
the White House were the real
culprit.
“I think he would be also the
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first to tell you that he has
probably had a few more
cheeseburgers and I think he
would admittedly tell you he’s
had more desserts in the last
year than I’ve seen him eat prior
to this,” Gibbs told reporters.
“Those guys make good desserts
over there and I think he’s on
more than one occasion sampled
more than he needed to,” Gibbs
said, referring to White House
chefs.
Diet was not on the agenda at
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White House spokesman
Robert Gibbs appeared for
Monday’s daily press briefing
attired in his standard suit,
not the red-and-white maple leaf
hockey uniform worn by Team
Canada, but he promised he
would make good on a losing
bet and appear in the sweater as
promised, and very soon.
“We’re in the process of getting
the hockey sweater… It’s on its
way,” he said at the start of the
briefing. “Trust me, the
Canadians have kept in very
close contact for this.”
Canada’s men’s hockey
team grabbed the Olympic gold
medal on Sunday with a thrilling
3-2 victory over the United
States in overtime, breaking the
hearts of the Americans, who
had tied the game with less than
25 seconds to go. The loss
meant President Barack Obama
owed Canadian Prime Minister
Stephen Harper a case of
Molson Canadian beer, but
“I’m a medium, can’t you tell?”
he asked.
He said he expected to keep his
pledge to wear the Canadian
uniform shirt by Friday.
“I presume before the week’s
over you’ll have the opportunity
to see that,” he said. ”It was a
fabulous game.”
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(Canada’s Sidney Crosby
celebrates with teammates Scott
Gibbs had also got into the
Niedermayer (L) and Drew
spirit, by promising his
Doughty after scoring the game
counterpart he would wear a
winning goal against the United
Team Canada jersey during one
States at the Vancouver 2010
of his daily on-camera press
Winter Olympics, February 28,
briefings.
2010.)
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own physique unfavorably to
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Chile Tsunami Pictures: Earthquake's Other Aftermath

(National Geographic News) one of the towns hardest hit by tsunamis, which tossed boats middle of the public square, what the sea didn't take, the
Submitted at 3/1/2010 2:29:19 PMthe massive February 27 and flattened buildings. MSNBC reported. looters did."
earthquake in Chile. (See Chile As many as 350 people died in "My dreams here have died," Published March 1, 2010
Chile Tsunami Aftermath earthquake pictures.) Constitución (map) alone from Karen Espinoza, owner of a Five Filters featured article:
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March 1, 2010, in Constitución, apparently unprepared for the and a fishing boat sits in the away, the sea took away. And
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Healthcare reconciliation: easier said Pictures: Snake vs.

than explained
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 2:31:00 PM
The process intricacies that go
into lawmaking can stump the
hardiest of congressional
watchers.
Now that Democrats may
decide to use reconciliation to
get healthcare legislation passed
in Congress, everyone has been
scrambling for the easiest
possible explanation.
What we found were lots of
words and several reports aimed
at explaining the process that
everyone’s talking about, but no
one-line, easy-to-understand,
explain-it-to-your-grandmother,
definition.
A bare bones, no-frills
explanation is that it’s a way to
try and pass legislation without
needing the 60 votes to
overcome yet other procedural
Dinosaur in New Fossil
Find
hurdles.
My colleague John Whitesides
did a step-by-step explanation of
the healthcare reconciliation
process, to read click here.
A column by Ezra Klein on
washingtonpost.com offers“A
reconciliation primer” with links
to a Congressional Research
Service report and an
explanation of the Byrd rule.
(National Geographic News) The snake's interrupted meal
The New York
Times“Prescriptions” blog tried Submitted at 3/1/2010 4:56:48 PM offers a rare glimpse into the
to make reconciliation more feeding behavior of ancient
Snake vs. Dinosaur snakes—and the dangers
interesting by telling readers to
I m a g e c o u r t e s y X i m e n a newborn dinosaurs faced, said
think of it as an “evening out.”
Erickson and Bonnie Miljour; Jeffrey Wilson, a co-author of
And NPR has an interview with
sculpture by Tyler Keillor the new study on the discovery,
Robert Dove who helped write
A prehistoric snake is poised to to be published in this week's
the law that contains the
make a meal of a newly hatched issue of the journal PLoS
“filibuster-busting provision
d i n o s a u r i n t h i s l i f e - s i z e Biology.
called reconciliation,” and as
reconstruction of 67-million- "It's actually one of the very few
former Senate parliamentarian
year-old fossils unearthed in examples that we have of
presided over such maneuvers.
India. ( Read full story.) anything other than a dinosaur
While Democrats appear to be
Before the snake could strike, eating a dinosaur," Wilson said.
headed in this direction on
t h o u g h , a s u r g e o f Published March 1, 2010
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Snake Caught Attacking Dinosaur—First Fossil Proof

(National Geographic News) snakes and the dangers that Sanejeh indicus, or "ancient- determine the dinosaur's species. possibly feeding on hatchling
Submitted at 3/1/2010 4:49:17 PM newborn dinosaurs faced, said gaped one from India." But they do know it was a dinosaurs," said Brad Moon, a
study team member Jeffrey Even without giant jaws, sauropod—a giant long-necked herpetologist at the University
Entombed at the moment of W i l s o n , a U n i v e r s i t y o f though, Sanejeh"could swallow plant-eater ( sauropod picture). of Louisiana at Lafayette, who
attack, a fossil serpent and M i c h i g a n p a l e o n t o l o g i s t . big things"—such as baby But what kind? was not involved in the new
sauropod are the first solid proof "It's actually one of the very few dinosaurs— simply because the Previously discovered fossils research.
that prehistoric snakes ate examples that we have of snake itself was big, Wilson s u g g e s t t h a t Moon does think, though, that
dinosaurs, a new study says. anything other than a dinosaur said. titanosaurs—sauropods that Sanejeh may have been attracted
(See pictures of the dinosaur- eating a dinosaur," said Wilson, "If the snake had evolved the grew to lengths of 65 feet (20 to the dinosaur nest for other
eating snake.) whose work was funded in part machinery that modern snakes meters) or longer—roamed the reasons. For example, the snake
Found in India, the well- by a grant from the National have, it would have been able to region around the nest, leading might have simply been seeking
preserved dinosaur-nest scene G e o g r a p h i c S o c i e t y ' s take even bigger things," he the researchers to suggest the shelter or pursuing some other
boasts several fossils: a nearly Committee for Research and said. hatchling too was a titanosaur. animal, he said.
c o m p l e t e s n a k e , a n e w l y Exploration. (The National Sanejeh did have a key (See"Eggs Hold Skulls of And while certainly
emerged dinosaur, and two G e o g r a p h i c S o c i e t y o w n s adaptation also found in modern Titanosaur Embryos.") spectacular, the revelation of a
unhatched eggs—all apparently National Geographic News.) snakes: an upper jaw that can The fossils of Sanejeh and its snake attack in progress is less
part of a spine-tingling tale. Scientists have long known that move independently of the apparent prey were discovered than surprising, scientifically
One stormy day 67 million s o m e d i n o s a u r s w e r e e g g lower jaw. in western India's Gujarat speaking, according to George
years ago, the 11.5-foot (3.5 snatchers, and recent fossil This jaw structure would have Province in 1984. After being Zug, curator emeritus of
m e t e r ) s n a k e a p p a r e n t l y evidence suggests mammals allowed Sanejeh to wriggle, mislabeled as containing only a amphibians and reptiles at the
slithered into the unguarded also dined on young dinosaurs. mouth first, over struggling prey hatchling sauropod, the fossil National Museum of Natural
dinosaur nest. The snake had (See"Five 'Oddball' Crocs in an alternating side-to-side trove was separated before History in Washington, D.C.
spotted a 1.6-foot-long (half- Discovered, Including Dinosaur- motion familiar to anyone who finally being reunited in 2004 Though Zug agrees the new
meter-long) dinosaur struggling Eater.") has ever tried to squeeze into a and sent to the University of fossils are the first proof of
out of its eggshell, scientists It's been suspected that snakes tight pair of jeans. (See a picture Michigan for study. snakes eating dinosaurs, he said
speculate. too ate dinosaurs, but until now of a python that's eaten a To avoid being eaten by snakes the behavior wouldn't shock
The snake curled up next to the there had been no proof. pregnant sheep.) and other predators, sauropods, anyone familiar with the ways
hatchling and was preparing to "It's a rough life if you're a juicy The snake may also have been in general, probably underwent of modern snakes.
attack when heavy rains likely little dinosaur," Wilson said. capable of squeezing dinosaur growth spurts in their early Snakes eat not only mammals
sent mud surging out of a Dinosaur Devourer Was Lizard eggs open to get to the years, the study says. and birds but also other reptiles,
nearby channel—smothering -like Snake hatchlings inside. (Related:"Dinosaur-Size Spurt: such as frogs and even other
both snake and prey, according Modern large-mouthed snakes, But because modern snakes T. Rex Teens Gained Five snakes, said Zug, who was not
t o t h e n e w s t u d y , t o b e such as boas and anacondas, can tend not to attack inanimate Pounds a Day.") involved in the new study.
published in this week's issue of eat large prey because their jaw objects, the researchers believe "By the time this sauropod was "So it's not out of the question
the journal PLoS Biology. joints are positioned well behind ancient snaked behaved about a year old, we think it that they would be preying on
(Related:"Venomous Dinosaur their skulls, allowing the snakes similarly, so it's likely that the would have been out of the little dinosaurs."
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feeding behavior of ancient skull itself—earning it the name young age, the team couldn't reasonable about the snake
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8 World/ Popular News/ E-reader News Edition

Red Knights urge fans to back takeover plan Improv

(Top stories from Times
Online)
of some representation in any
new regime.
stockbroker Seymour Pierce,
and Paul Marshall, a multi-
Richard Hytner, the deputy
chairman worldwide of Saatchi Everywhere
“For such a proposal to be millionaire hedge fund manager & Saatchi and a co-founder of
Submitted at 3/2/2010 4:42:23 AM
viable, it would require the
The millionaire football fans involvement and support of
– met at the Fleet Street offices
of Freshfields Bruckhaus
Shareholders United - who
fiercely opposed the Glazer
at it again
(Holy Kaw!)
who want to buy Manchester United supporters worldwide,” Deringer, a corporate law firm, takeover - is also one of the
United have urged the club's the Knights said in a statement. yesterday to discuss whether a Knights although it is unclear Submitted at 3/1/2010 10:56:16 PM

fans to support their bid to oust The Knights urged United fans bid might be possible. whether he was at yesterday’s
the Glazers. Here’s the latest Improv
to go to www.joinmust.org and “This group is supportive of meeting.
The Red Knights said the sign up with Manchester United Everywhere stunt, which was
current management but are Sources were keen to play
financial backing and public Supporters Trust (MUST), the featured on This American Life.
looking at the feasibility of down the significance of
support of United fans was group set up - initially under the This time the organized
putting together a proposal to be yesterday’s meeting, suggesting
c r u c i a l f o r t h e i r p l a n s t o name Shareholders United - pranksters get a bunch of people
put to the Glazer family that it was merely the first step
succeed, insisting a new with a view to buying a to throw a random person a
regarding the ownership of on a long road that may not
ownership model would “put influential stake in the club. birthday party. They all call him
Manchester United,” they said. lead anywhere, but there is a
supporters at the heart of “In the coming weeks the Red Ted andl pretend to know him
“These discussions are in early genuine belief among some of
everything the club does". Knights will continue to work from somewhere specific, such
stages and no contact has been those involved that it will be
The Knights, a group of with MUST and others to as university, work, and
made with the Glazer family." possible to persuade the Glazer
b u s i n e s s m e n c o m p r i s i n g formulate our proposal and elementary school. See how the
A spokesman for the Glazers family to sell. Harris has
l i f e l o n g U n i t e d f a n s , a r e further statements will be issued joke pans out.
said last night the club is not for indicated in the past that he
planning to use their contacts in due course,” the statement Read the full story at Urban
sale at any price while there is believes the club to be worth
across the world to find a continued. Prankster.
no is no indication that Sir Alex approximately £1 billion, but
number of “super-investors” “We can confirm that a group of Get your laughs with some
Ferguson, who has been the Glazers’ valuation, which
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3 Charged in Fatal Beating of Alpaca in Ohio

(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:32:21 AM
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio
Authorities have charged three
people in the theft and fatal
beating of a baby alpaca in
southwest Ohio.
The 3-month-old alpaca, named
Masterpiece, was reported
stolen Feb. 19 from a farm near
Middletown. Authorities say the
animal was beaten, put in a
truck, and dumped in an
abandoned barn.
Butler County sheriff's officials
say two 17-year-old boys are
charged in juvenile court with
animal cruelty, breaking and
entering, and tampering with
evidence. A 22-year-old woman
faces complicity charges, for
allegedly driving the truck the
alpaca was moved in.
The alpaca had a value of at
least $8,000. Alpacas are similar
to llamas and native to South
America. They're prized for
their wool.
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Labour fury as Lord Ashcroft Inc. 5000 Applicant of

escapes inquiry the Week: Cali Bamboo
(Top stories from Times Appointments Commission last House of Lords. Josh Spiro (Inc.com) residential and commercial
Online) night, asking it to investigate "We have an appointments Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:58:00 AM projects.From an environmental
Submitted at 3/2/2010 3:54:23 AM whether Lord Ashcroft was commission that didn't exist ten standpoint, bamboo is preferable
breaking the terms of his years ago, and by that defence As applications for the 2010 to other types of wood because
Lord Mandelson today vented a g r e e m e n t w i t h h o n o u r s Lord Ashcroft is able to Inc. 500 | 5000 arrive, we bamboo can be harvested every
his outrage after he failed in his officials when he was finally continue to hide unless these thought it would be worthwhile three to five years without
attempt to trigger an inquiry awarded his peerage in 2000 facts can be brought out, and I to shine a spotlight on some of damaging the plant compared to
into whether the Conservatives' after promising to become a hope that they will. the companies that are vying to 30 to 50 years for a typical tree.
billionaire deputy chairman permanent UK resident. "What I'm saying is, that there appear on our ranking of the As a result the plant produces
Lord Ashcroft broke promises But the commission replied this are papers that exist somewhere f a s t e s t - g r o w i n g p r i v a t e more oxygen, consumes more
he made in order to receive a morning that it was essentially and they should be found and companies in the U.S. (For more carbon dioxide and has less
peerage. toothless in the matter, as it they should be put before the information and to apply, go to environmental impact. “You can
Lord Ashcroft, a powerful wasn't in existence when the public — perhaps even using a http://www.inc.com/inc5000app harvest ten times faster and not
backroom player in the Tories deal was struck, and had neither Freedom of Information request ly/2010/.) One that caught our damage the environment. That’s
who has donated millions to the powers nor the relevant to do so." eye was San Diego, California- huge,” Goldberg enthuses.The
help the party win in marginal documents at its disposal to Lord Ashcroft's revelation has based Cali Bamboo.After five company vaulted onto the Inc.
seats, revealed yesterday after mount a retrospective inquiry. left Mr Cameron in an y e a r s w o r k i n g a t a 500 | 5000 list last year at No.
years of speculation that he was In a combative impromptu uncomfortable situation, as he biotechnology company, Jeff 254 and is hoping for a repeat
non-domiciled for tax purposes. press conference outside No 10 and other senior aides have Goldberg needed a break, so he performance. Business is brisk,
The arrangement is not illegal t o d a y , L o r d M a n d e l s o n repeatedly reassured the public sold everything he owned and with clients all over North
n o r a n a u t o m a t i c b a r t o expressed his outrage at the about Lord Ashcroft's tax traveled the world for a year on America. The company also has
membership of the Lords, but it situation and said that an inquiry arrangements. a surfing expedition with his a n i m m i n e n t l a u n c h o f
is contrary to the spirit of many should still be held. At a press conference at Canary friend Tanner Haigwood.The conventional lumber products,
assurances given by senior "Lord Ashcroft is bringing the Whart in East London today the pair ended up in Hawaii where such as 2x4s and 4x4s, made
Tories over the years about their House of Lords into disrepute Tory leader refused to say how they had the inspiration for what from bamboo, which could help
most generous donor. Today by continuing to dodge in the long he had known that his would become Cali Bamboo, a their business expand even
David Cameron was forced to way that he is," said Lord party’s deputy chairman was a company that sells sustainable further.But the industry still has
stonewall awkward questions Mandelson. "non-dom", insisting that all building products to consumers. some hurdles to overcome if
about how long he had known "It is quite possible that these that mattered was the outcome. “We were actually cutting Cali Bamboo is to stay on track
the truth about his maverick papers [relating to the Ashcroft Five Filters featured article: bamboo down to make a few f o r m e t e o r i c g r o w t h .
political ally's tax affairs. peerage] are in the Cabinet Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: bucks an hour to keep the trip “Construction is kind of an old
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write to the House of Lords oversaw appointment to the recounts.The pair went on to these same products for the last
start Cali Bamboo, which 1,500 years, almost, and it’s just
6 Elements Every Conspiracy Theory Needs p r o v i d e s e v e r y t h i n g f r o m what they’re used to. To change
Joe Brown (Wired Top bamboo flooring and fencing to someone’s mindset to using
London Times columnist David identifies six key elements to
Stories) poles, plywood and decking for other materials can be difficult.”
Aaronovitch says our rampant building one. Try out The
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10 World/ Business/ Popular News/
BBC Director General defends cuts
to radio, online and TV imports
(Top stories from Times
Online)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 3:14:35 AM
BBC staff reacted with fury and
unions warned of massive job
losses this morning as the
corporation confirmed that it
will make significant cuts to its
website, radio services and
imported programmes.
Director-General Mark
Thompson told staff in a
presentation at Television
Centre that BBC 6 Music and its
Asian Network face closure
from the end of 2011 and BBC
online services will be cut by 25
per cent by 2013.
Unions criticised the cuts as
"totally unnecessary" and
"politically motivated" and
warned the findings of the
review into every aspect of the
BBC’s activities would put up to
600 jobs at risk .
Mr Thompson maintained the
report was about "putting
quality first" and the changes
would see an extra £600m
diverted into higher quality
programme-making. Teen
services 'Switch' and 'Blast!' will
"Success Library" 2010
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 11:43:00 PM
I was in a Barnes and Noble
tonight and saw a shelf labeled
be among the closures, he
confirmed - with Mr Thompson
admitting that Channel 4 should
be leading the way in this
demographic - and spending on
American imports will be cut
by 20 per cent.
Online services would be
affected with "lower performing
sites" closed. “All online
content should feel justified and
purposeful: not extraneous or
encyclopaedic, but within a
distinct editorial purpose,” the
report says.
Corporation employees had
been given the chance to enter a
draw for seats at the
presentation at Television
Centre, which was transmitted
on the internal television
network from 9.30am.
Confirmation of the cuts
sparked immediate anger.
Gerry Morrissey, general
secretary of the broadcasting
workers’ union Bectu, warned
up to 600 jobs could go, saying
that "these cuts are totally
unnecessary and are purely
politically motivated.
“It is obvious that the BBC is
being bounced by its
“Success Library.” Look at the
books on it: they’re all about
social media, Twitter, LinkedIn,
and Facebook. Two years ago, Good to Great, The Tipping
this shelf would be filled with
competitors and by the political
climate ahead of the upcoming
general election.
“It is not acceptable for the BBC
to be offering up services and
jobs as some kind of sacrifice
ahead of the general election.”
Union leaders will meet Mark
Thompson, tomorrow but are
already warning of strike action
to fight the cuts.
One BBC journalist based at
Television Centre said today:
“People are pretty despondent
here. We were already upset at
the salaries paid to executives,
and now we’re being told there
will be more cuts.
“No one knows how many jobs
will go - we’re not being told.
People are asking which bits of
the website will shut. Quite a
few of us are fans of 6 Music as
well and we can’t see why it
should close while BBC 3 TV
stays on air.”
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Are Entrepreneurs
Born? Or Made?
Lewis Schiff (Inc.com) working for someone else.
Submitted at 3/1/2010 11:05:32 AM In other words, the most likely
path to entrepreneurship is the
A recent post on TechCrunch simplest one: you work for
b y " e n t r e p r e n e u r - t u r n e d - someone, become an expert in a
academic," Vivek Wadhwa, technical area, build a network
addresses the controversial topic of contacts, then strike out on
o f e n t r e p r e n e u r i a l D N A . your own, presumably with a
Wadhwa asks the question: are believe that you can solve a
entrepreneurs born or made? problem or build a better
With a surfeit of data, Wadhwa mousetrap than competitors.
points out that entrepreneurs are What do you think? Are you
n o t l i k e l y t o c o m e f r o m born an entrepreneur? Do you
entrepreneurial families. He become one early in life? Or are
goes on to say that not all entrepreneurs likely to start
business owners identified businesses out of hard-won
t h e m s e l v e s a s b e i n g expertise who then start a
entrepreneurially-minded in business around their skills and
college. Instead, according this networks?
research, 69% started their own
businesses within 10 years of
Point, and the like. The world
has sure changed.
All the social media tips and
tricks.
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Weed Killer Makes Male Frogs Lay Carmike Cinemas Soars

Eggs
(National Geographic News)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 3:21:42 PM
The so-called pregnant man has
company: One of the most
common weed killers in the
United States can make male
frogs lay eggs, a new study says.
Atrazine, widely used to kill
pests on U.S. croplands, is an
endocrine disruptor—a
substance that interferes with
animals' reproductive systems.
Previous research has shown
that atrazine can give male
amphibians female
characteristics: For instance,
male frogs exposed to atrazine
have lower testosterone levels,
produce less sperm, and even
change their mating habits by
choosing males over females.
Now, researchers have
discovered that the chemical
transforms male frogs into fully
functioning females—and that
the substance may be
contributing to a worldwide
decline in amphibians.
Atrazine "Keeps Coming Back"
To test the chemical's impact,
NOW calls for NY Gov. Paterson to resign (AP)
Past Expectations
study leader Tyrone Hayes
raised 40 genetically male
African clawed frogs from
hatching to adulthood in a
solution containing 0.003
percent atrazine.
Four of the adult frogs—or ten
percent—developed into what
looked like perfectly normal
females.
Hayes, a biologist at the
University of California,
Berkeley, and his team dissected
two of the four and confirmed
that they had ovaries but had
maintained their male DNA.
The other two frogs mated with
males and laid eggs that hatched
and grew to adulthood. All the
offspring were chromosomally
male and seemingly healthy.
(Learn how DNA works.)
Of the atrazine-exposed males
that didn't develop ovaries, 80
percent were unable to produce
sperm.
(Related:"Sex-Changing
Chemicals Found in Potomac
River.")
Hayes, also a National
Geographic Society emerging
explorer, said that even he was
somewhat surprised at the
myriad effects of the herbicide.
(The National Geographic
Society owns National
Geographic News.)
"As a scientist, you always think
there's got to be an alternate
explanation," he said. "But the
thing about atrazine is it just
keeps coming back."
Human Impacts?
Though there haven't been
many studies on the chemicals'
impacts on people, some recent
research has linked atrazine
exposure to breast cancer.
The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency recently
announced it's reevaluating
atrazine—banned in the
European Union since 2004—to
determine possible harmful
effects to people.
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Filed under: Earnings Reports,
Time Warner (TWX), Walt
Disney (DIS), News Corp'B'
(NWS), Film
Carmike Cinemas ( CKEC)
reported a much-improved
fourth quarter yesterday after
the bell. Total revenue increased
17%. The bottom line recorded
48 cents per share in terms of
income from continuing
operations. This compares to a
loss of $2.75 per share in the
relevant period.
According to Reuters, the net
income figure completely
obliterated the analysts. The call
was for 9 cents per share. I don't
think there was any question
that the theater chain was going
to beat. As management stated
in the release, the multiplex
industry generated incredible
business in Q4.
Continue reading Carmike
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Expectations
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Submitted at 3/2/2010 2:56:00 AM

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Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:58:29 AM
Tony A buzzed up: Lone
Republican Senator blocking a
million-plus Americans from
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benefits
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Former Tory MP Winston Churchill

dies
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year protracted battle against
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valiant struggle throughout, and
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when they were at his bedside
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UKNDA.
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"Farewell, Winston. If there is a
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Mar 2010 president. His untimely early
He was 69 and had been death is a greater tragedy for the
Valhalla, you are surely there."
Colonel Bob Stewart, vice-
president of the UKNDA, said:
(ARBFX)
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battling with cancer for two c o u n t r y , w h i c h h e s e r v e d "Winston was a thoroughly (BloggingStocks)
years. model that eliminates hostile
devotedly for many years. decent man and a great friend to
After working as a foreign "As president of the UKNDA, Submitted at 3/2/2010 10:00:00 AM takeovers, deals that need to
me.
correspondent in the 1960s, Mr W S C w a s g e n e r o u s , jump regulatory hurdles, and
"I first got to know him 17 years
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Churchill served as a hardworking, proactive, and an ago and twice during that time I
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Manchester MP between 1970 inspirational leader. have asked for his help on
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and 1997. "A true patriot, WSC followed behalf of other people who
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He was, before his death, the in the steps of his grandfather, really needed assistance - and
acquisitions by purchasing the (ARBFX)
president of the UK National Sir Winston, who in the 1930s twice he gave it without
acquired company's stock and Investing in Mergers: The
D e f e n c e A s s o c i a t i o n campaigned ceaselessly for this reservation.
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for more resources for the armed the ever-growing threat from people's lives forever.
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Submitted at 3/1/2010 11:27:40 PM
Check out these mysterious and
subversive street signs posted all
street artist, known only as
TrustoCorp. For instace:
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Gothamist and see the full
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being bought by Google.
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To Sell a Blog, Build Your Personal Brand Apple sues

Courtney Rubin (Inc.com) bank's aggressive accounting
first piqued Leder's interest in
an expert – and, of course, her
blog – by being quoted in
apartment in Paris, the company
yacht, the lifetime consulting
HTC over
Submitted at 3/1/2010 8:41:00 AM
SEC filings. After losing her
Michelle Leder isn't the first job, Leder, now 43, became an
newspapers, appearing on TV,
and writing freelance articles.
contract and, of course, a tax
gross up – all crazy perks we've
iPhone patents
entrepreneur to find success post expert at panning the arcane In 2008, Leder decided written about in various M&A (CNET News.com)
-pink slip, but her tale is a documents for news nuggets, advertising "was never going to deals – I came up empty Submitted at 3/2/2010 7:00:00 AM

parable about the importance of writing a 2003 book called sustain the site," she told handed."
f i n d i n g a n i c h e – a n d o f Financial Fine Print. To promote Harvard University's Nieman Instead, her reward, she wrote, Apple is suing phone maker
personal branding. the book, she started a blog, Journalism Lab. So she kept part will be growing the Footnoted HTC, alleging that the
In 1998, Leder, a financial called Footnoted.org, where she of her content free and put the business – she's already hired a Taiwanese company is
journalist, was fired from her w r o t e a b o u t c o r p o r a t e premium stuff (the scoops most full-time employee and happily infringing 20 Apple patents
b u s i n e s s - r e p o r t i n g j o b a t shenanigans and other news likely to affect stock prices) handed over the sales part of the related to the user interface,
Gannett's Poughkeepsie Journal. investors could use buried in the behind a subscription-only business to Morningstar. "I'm underlying architecture, and
She parlayed her skill parsing – y o u g u e s s e d i t – S E C paywall. Hedge fund managers really good at reading SEC hardware of the iPhone.
c o m p l e x S e c u r i t i e s a n d documents' fine print. (Revenge forked over $2,500 per year or filings and finding nuggets. I'm "We can sit by and watch
E x c h a n g e C o m m i s s i o n is sweet: One of Leder's best $250 per issue for what she not really good at selling competitors steal our patented
documents into a business she scoops was discovering – buried called the Footnoted Pro service. subscriptions," she told the inventions, or we can do
ran from her home office. This in a 2003 proxy report to (She wouldn't reveal how many Nieman Journalism Lab. something about it. We've
month, investor advisory service shareholders – that Gannett subscribers she has, though she Three of Leder's top tips for decided to do something about
Morningstar, the $2.2 billion Chief Financial Officer Larry said it fell just short of her goal start-ups: it," Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO,
company mutual-fund rating Miller received a consulting of 100.) 1. Quality is key. "There's so said Tuesday in a statement.
company, bought Leder's tiny contract with the company Chicago-based Morningstar much content out there," she "We think competition is
company for an undisclosed valued at $600,000 a year for came calling last spring and, last said. "People recognize quality." healthy, but competitors should
s u m . ( F u l l d i s c l o s u r e : the rest of his life.) month, Leder blogged the news 2. Don't need office space? create their own original
Morningstar CEO Joe Mansueto As the blog's readership grew, of the acquisition. She'll Don't fork out for it. technology, not steal ours."
owns Inc., and Leder has written Leder saw financial opportunity. continue to run Footnoted (soon 3. "Have a backup plan." (Part HTC makes a number of
for the magazine in the past, She sold advertising space on to become Footnoted.com). of Leder's: Her husband had a mobile phones based on
most recently in 2005.) the site, then peddled reprints Leder didn't reveal the multiple job.) Google's Android operating
How did this laid-off journalist a n d o r i g i n a l c o n t e n t t o fetched by her company, writing system.
turn financial voyeurism into a customers that included the New only: "While I negotiated Apple said that the lawsuit was
paycheck? York Times's DealBook. She mightily for the keys to the filed concurrently with the U.S.
Writing about a small Florida also promoted her reputation as Gulfstream, the corporate International Trade Commission
(ITC) and in U.S. District Court
Postal Service's emerging model: Never on in Delaware.
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14 Business/ E-reader News Edition

Twitter Wants to Know Where You're @ With Improved Geo-

Location and Privacy Features
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 8:48:56 AM

Twitter's revealed that it will be

tweaking its code to improve its
geo- Tweeting system, making it
much wordier and less
numerical. They say it's for
privacy-conscious users, but is it
also the first step toward
hyperlocal Tweet streams?
When Twitter's geo-located
Tweets were revealed a while
back, I noted it could turn into a
killer feature for the life-casting
social network. But since then,
not much fuss has been made of
the system and if you browse
through your Twitter follower
list you'll probably find few
people who've properly enabled
it. Part of the reason is that for Rather than letting the system sit location system immediately their exact coordinates" but who would be that you could use
most users accessing Twitter and mature as it is, Twitter's more friendly, but Twitter's also may be happy to "say what city, Twitter to discover the news
through a website or some going to improve the geo- noting in its blog post that or even neighborhood, they are that's really going on nearby to
desktop or smartphone clients, Tweets by adding a "rich" data there's another upshot regarding in." you, or find out events,
the location is presented merely layer into the API. The plan is to user privacy. Some people may And this reveals what Twitter's businesses or even people--
as a long incomprehensible replace the current meaningless not have used geo-Tweeting really trying to do: It's gently, turning Twitter into a seriously
string of numbers. It gets more lat-long numbers with a because of the same sort of subtly trying to coax people to powerful hyperlocal news and
powerful if you're using a meaningful text entry, security worries facing all share their geolocation more (in advertising tool. And once
service like TweetAround inside something like "Smith Street, location-based systems like a more user-friendly way than Twitter's got this data flowing in
the augmented reality browser Hackney, London." The geo- Foursquare, Gowalla and such. the typical Facebook tactic, used from its users, it can then sell it
Layar, where you can see location data will still be But Twitter's new rich-text layer when it wants to modify its to Google.
nearby Tweets located with a present, but it'll be behind the lets you add in a more limited, user's habits.) And the reason [Via TwitterAPIblog]
visual indication of those near to scenes and now properly text-driven location that's behind this is actually To hear more news like this,
you...but not everyone's turned encoded in GeoJSON standard, compatible with its broader intriguing...Twitter may be follow my (geolocated!) Tweets
on their location, or uses AR for better compatibility with code, which will be handy for trying to push for boosted local, o n T w i t t e r , a t
apps yet. other systems. people who "aren't comfortable or even hyperlocal, powers for http://www.Twitter.com/KitEato
All of which makes Twitter's This will make Twitter's annotating their tweets with its Tweet stream. The idea n
news particularly interesting:
E-reader News Edition
What to Expect From Hulu's First Original Series,
"If I Can Dream"
Addy Dugdale (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 9:51:07 AM
Fans of Big Brother, Jersey
Shore--and, I guess, Survivor, if
the apocryphal tales about
making it in Hollywood are to
be believed--have got another
reason to hump their sofa legs
for the next couple of months.
Tonight sees the debut of If I
Can Dream, the new show from
Simon Fuller, on the streaming
video site Hulu. (This is the
showbiz svengali called Simon
who isn't the other showbiz
svengali called Simon, although
his hair is similar and they have
both worked together on
American Idol and, although
they both know the Spice Girls,
it was Simon Fuller who made
Girl Power a war cry for
tweenagers. Girl Power!)
The 90-second promo of the
show makes a wet dream look
like the dry season in the Gobi
Desert--it's the Hollywood
equivalent of Uncle Sam's I
When will MMOs captivate console
owners?
Don Reisinger
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 1:30:09 PM
MMOs have long been
Business/ Tech/ 15
Is Elvis Dead? Who
Knows, But His Passport
Made It Through Airport
Security In Amsterdam
Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 10:02:00 PM
There's been a big push lately
to use "biometrics" at airports --
especially in light of the well
publicized attack attempt last
Christmas. But biometrics --
especially chips in passports --
can easily be fooled, and can
create a false sense of security.
JJ sent over the news of two
hackers who were able to get
past the security check-in with a
passport claiming to be Elvis
Presley-- they even included an
Elvis photo. Now, there
Want You campaign, if such a big in the town of Tinsel. The up is this: A weekly, 30-minute certainly are some limitations
campaign were needed, that is. s o c i a l m e d i a p r e s e n c e i s round-up, but round-the-clock with what they did, and even
The evocative pipes of Elvis, overwhelming. You can tweet, access to the five hopefuls' life, they admit that this sort of
l i n g e r i n g s h o t s o f f i v e FB, MySpace, blog and sms the thanks to 50 cameras set up hacking wouldn't work in a lot
impossibly pulchritudinous quintet and, if one of them throughout the house. No doubt, of cases. However, just the fact
young 'uns in underwear wafting should make it big, vote to TV movers and shakers will be that they were able to get past
around an impossibly beautiful choose their replacement. glued to their screens tonight to the machine with a faked
house. A cross between Idol and Fuller describes If I Can Dream see whether it works or not. And biometric Elvis chip suggests
Big Brother, the show--the first as "the dawning of a new age," then the twittersphere will, no t h a t t h e w h o l e f o c u s o n
to be streamed via the Internet claiming that the video world of doubt, be thick with opinionated biometrics is a bit of a red
on Hulu-- follows a wannabe authentic real time interaction is tweets from one exec to another. herring, as the data can be
model, three actors and a " t h e n e x t f r o n t i e r ( i n [Via Reuters and Hulu] faked.
musician as they try to make it entertainment.)" The basic set Permalink| Comments| Email
This Story
successful on the PC. But in Originally posted at The Digital
recent years, they have fallen Home
flat on the console. At least one
developer believes that will
change going forward.
16 Business/ E-reader News Edition

Infographic of the Day: Which Burger Chains Dominate the

U.S. Landscape?
Cliff Kuang (Fast Company) location has equal power. The Subway being the most glaring
Submitted at 3/2/2010 9:23:54 AM entity that controls each point omission.)
casts the most aggregate burger And that, you could argue, is an
McDonald's isn't quite as force upon it, as calculated by indicator of relative brand
ubiquitous as it seems--and that the inverse-square law– kind of strength: McDonald's doesn't
tells you something about the like a chart outlining the have to have four stores in a
power of its brand. gravitational wells of galactic single block, because people
America is littered with fast star clusters, but in an alternate, will come to the one that they do
food restaurants. But which ones fast food universe. have. Everyone else has to shout
dominate in each region? You That simply means that the a lot louder to compensate.
might be surprised. graph above shows relative Read More: Infographic of the
W e a t h e r S e a l e d a n a l y z e d density of each chain. And what rest. Outside of a powerbase in to become so common in certain Day: McDonald's Heat Wave
location data for eight of the it reveals is that McDonald's the Northeast, they cover the regions that they seem [Via Chart Porn]
country's major burger chains, isn't quite the behemoth it country in a loose but consistent unavoidable. (The one thing
and mapped the results--with a seems, but they're pursuing a far density. The other chains are missing in the graph is other
twist: Each individual restaurant different strategy than all the playing a different game, trying types of fastfood chains--

Norway's Incredibly Luxurious Halden Prison: $1 Million of

Art and Flat-Screen TVs in Every Cell
Dan Nosowitz (Fast right near the Swedish border, cheerful colors, and actually
Company) comprised of cells that are spent about $1 million to hire a
Submitted at 3/2/2010 8:24:48 AM arranged in units of 10 to 12, graffiti artist named Dolk (sort
much like a college dorm. of their version of Banksy) to
A lesson for all the budding Except these cells are actually paint beautiful murals all around
criminals out there: if you're better than most dorms, since the grounds.
going to commit a crime, do it every cell comes with a private It's all aimed at rehabilitating,
in Norway, because the country bathroom and a flat-screen TV, rather than necessarily
is soon to open Halden Prison, as well as a view--the windows punishing, criminals, which is a
possibly the world's most don't even have bars in them. noble exercise and all that, but
ridiculously posh prison. But what about facilities, you it's sort of personally
When it opens on April 1, might ask? My college dorm room, chapel, library, family studio. But it's the design that's embarrassing to me to know that
Halden Prison will hold 252 had a foosball table, and a visiting unit, football (possibly most strikingly different from a prison is more luxurious than
inmates, making it the second- vending machine! This prison soccer) field, a school, and, American prisons. Halden some of my past apartments.
largest prison in Norway. It's a can't match that, right? Wrong. most unbelievably, a sound doesn't shy away from bright, [ V i a E l u s i v e M o o s e v i a
gorgeous, ultra-modern structure Halden has a gym, training Gizmodo]
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Review: Rework Goldman Sachs Sets

Leigh Buchanan (Inc.com)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:00:00 AM
The book: Rework, by Jason
Fried and David Heinemeier
Hansson; Crown Business;
March 2010.
The big idea: Rework takes aim
at marketing, hiring, and other
disciplines associated with
building a business as if they
were bottles lined up against a
wall. Then it blows them away.
The backstory: Fried (who is
joining Inc. as a columnist in
April) co-founded the Web-
application company 37signals,
and Hansson later joined as a
partner. They are big believers
in what others call transparency,
though they loathe business
jargon with a white-hot passion.
Simplify, simplify: Fried and
Hansson are the Henry David
Thoreaus of entrepreneurship.
They preach doing less and
embracing constraints. That
leads to counterintuitive advice,
such as stop tailoring your
product for existing customers
and deliver less than your
competition.
Attitude: Unlike most business
books, Rework is written with
genuine voice -- a sometimes
cranky and profane voice at that.
If you read nothing else:
Rework is composed of brief
lessons delivered in unadorned
prose on pages with fat margins
and lots of pictures. You can
finish it over lunch, so no need
to skip anything.
Rigor rating: 7 (1=Who Moved
My Cheese?; 10=Good to
Great). The advice is based
almost exclusively on the
experiences of 37signals, which
are compelling but not
necessarily representative. Some
other, cursory examples are
culled from magazines and
websites.
New Record for $100
Million Trading Days
Connie Madon
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: Competitive
Strategy, Goldman Sachs Group
(GS)
Goldman Sachs ( GS) has
topped its previous record of other day.
$100 million dollar trading days. Continue reading Goldman
According to filings with the Sachs Sets New Record for
Securities and Exchange $100 Million Trading Days
Commission, the bank made at Goldman Sachs Sets New
least $100 million in net trading Record for $100 Million
revenue on 131 days last year. Trading Days originally
Its previous record, set in 2008, appeared on BloggingStocks on
was for 90 days of $100 million Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:00:00
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the jackpot pretty much every

A 3D Tribute to Apple’s Beautiful Design [VIDEO]

Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) to some of Apple’s greatest product will show up at the end for finding this little gem.
Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:18:37 AM creations, rendered entirely in of the video as closing credits, Anatomy of Apple Design from
3D. but you can amuse yourself by Transparent House on Vimeo.
The folks at 3D design and The animation, which isn’t trying to name them all as they Tags: 3D, apple, design, video
visualization studio Transparent affiliated with Apple, was done appear. Nine different Apple
House love Apple products. using 3Ds Max and V-Ray products are displayed; a true
They love them so much that render; according to Transparent complete. fan should know the names of at
they’ve created a video tribute House, it took about 10 days to The names of the various Apple least eight. Hat tip to Recombu
18 Popular News/
Chile struggles to stop looting
(BBC News | Americas |
World Edition)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 7:10:03 AM
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Suspected looters caught in
Chile
A curfew in Chile's second city,
Concepcion, is coming to an end
at midday (1500 GMT) as
troops struggle to contain
looting after the earthquake.
Dozens of people were arrested
after looters fought over goods
and set fire to a department
store, officials say.
The authorities have announced
the setting up of a special air
route to deliver aid from the
capital, Santiago, to
Concepcion, 430km (270 miles)
away.
Saturday morning's 8.8-
magnitude earthquake killed at
least 723 people.
The deteriorating security
situation in Concepcion comes
despite the influx of thousands
of troops to reinforce local
police.
Many of the city's 500,000
inhabitants are short of food and
have seen their water and
electricity supplies cut off.
But lorry after lorry loaded with
water, food and mattresses is
being held up by the military
until the curfew is lifted, reports
the BBC's Andy Gallacher from
the checkpoint on the outskirts
of Concepcion.
The main highway in the region
is twisted and bent out of shape,
but the route remains open, our
correspondent says.
Security seems to be the biggest
issue holding up rescue efforts,
he adds.
Some residents quoted by the
Reuters news agency said they
were organising groups to
defend their property.
President Michelle Bachelet,
condemning "pillage and
criminality", has now sent
14,000 soldiers to the region.
"I want to call to the people's
conscience. We must all work
together," she said.
Meanwhile, rescuers searching
the rubble of a collapsed
apartment building in the city in
which dozens are feared trapped
say they have heard signs of life
and are attempting to reach
survivors.
Coastal destruction
Reports are beginning to
emerge of the scale of the
devastation in other areas.
It has taken us about 15 hours
of solid driving to get to the
outskirts of Concepcion. The
main highway is ripped and
twisted all the way down from
the capital, Santiago.
At a military checkpoint, there
are rows and rows of lorries
carrying food, fresh water and
other emergency supplies.
It appears that there has been a
complete breakdown of law and
order in Chile's second city.
Some of the communities on
the coast near here have
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seafront and centre had been
"completely destroyed".
The government admits that its
attempts to provide aid swiftly
have been hampered by
damaged roads and power cuts.
The air supply route between
Santiago and Concepcion will
help the authorities send more
than 300 tonnes of aid,
including 120 tonnes of food, to
the worst affected area of the
country.
Communication problems
International aid has begun
arriving. Neighbouring
Argentina is flying a field
hospital over the Andes to Chile
and has pledged half a million
litres of much-needed drinking
water.
meanwhile not yet even been Brazilian President Luiz Inacio
heard from. They were first hit Lula da Silva flew to Santiago
by the earthquake, and then and offered his nation's support,
swept away by the tsunami. as did US Secretary of State
A BBC team that reached the Hillary Clinton.
town of Curico, between Mrs Clinton took a
Santiago and Concepcion, found consignment of satellite phones
widespread destruction. with her to Santiago after the
Up to 90% of the mud-and- Chilean government requested
wood buildings in the town's communications equipment
h i s t o r i c c e n t r e h a d b e e n alongside field hospitals and
destroyed, and a hospital badly water purification units.
damaged, our reporters said. "One of their biggest problems
However, food and water was has been communications," Mrs
b e i n g d i s t r i b u t e d a n d t h e Clinton told reporters. "They
situation was comparatively c a n ' t c o m m u n i c a t e i n t o
calm, they added. Concepcion and some of the
S o m e c o a s t a l t o w n s a n d surrounding areas."
villages were hit by giant waves After touring the disaster zone,
after the earthquake. President-elect Sebastian Pinera
In the fishing village of CHILE page 24
Constitucion, the mayor said the
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Family Holds Out Hope for Calif. Teen's Safe Return

(FOXNews.com) attorney's office, said a decision pleaded for anyone with us or call us and say I'm going "She is one of the most driven,
Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:53:53 AM would be made by Wednesday information about Gardner to to be late ... we just had that personable, caring people that
about filing charges against the come forward. Investigators feeling," Brent King said. you could ever meet," Brent
Chelsea King is a straight-A registered sex offender. suspect Gardner could be tied to Kelly called 911 as her husband King said. "Her goal in life is to
student who plays French horn Chelsea's parents, Brent and a Dec. 27 assault on a female drove to the park. Brent looked brighten everyone's day. That's
f o r t h e S a n D i e g o Y o u t h Kelly King, told Fox News on jogger from Colorado who first at the tennis courts, then what she does, and when she
Symphony, runs on the school Tuesday that they are not fended off her attacker in the saw a trail headed into the walks into the room, you know
cross-country team and actively spending any time focusing on same park. woods. she's there."
volunteers in a peer counseling Gardner. "Anybody who knows anything "I took off and ran down the She often stays up studying past
program. "I don’t want to waste a minute about the person they have in trail as far as I could run, calling midnight, working so hard that
At Poway High School, photos of my my time focusing on custody — whatever you want out for my daughter at the top of her parents urge her to ease off
adorn the walls with the caption, him," Kelly King said. to call him, I can't even put a my voice in every direction," he and spend more time with
" L a s t s e e n 2 - 2 5 a t R B "My full focus is on bringing word to it — please let us said. friends. Long-distance running
C o m m u n i t y P a r k w e a r i n g my daughter home," Brent King know," he said. Chelsea was born in Poway, a was her escape.
running clothes." said. In an interview Monday, the well-to-do suburb of homes and "That was her outlet when she
The 17-year-old's family and Gardner, of Lake Elsinore, Kings, who also have a 13-year- office parks northeast of San was stressed about a test or
authorities are holding out hope pleaded guilty in May 2000 to old son, recounted their Diego. The family followed needed to just clear her head,"
that she will return safely. She molesting a 13-year-old female daughter's disappearance. Brent King's job in mortgage Kelly King said.
disappeared Thursday, and a neighbor and was sentenced to Brent, 47, returned from the banking to the San Francisco San Diego Sheriff's Department
search for her has spread over six years in prison. Prosecutors gym around 5:30 p.m. Bay area and to the Chicago is asking anyone with
an area of about four square say he lured the victim to his Thursday, the same time his area before returning to San information to contact them at
miles, covered with rocks and home with an offer to watch wife, Kelly, 48, came home with Diego. Their home was badly 858-566-5200.
heavy vegetation. The focus of "Patch Adams," a 1998 movie groceries. Their daughter, who damaged in 2007 wildfires that Click here for video reports
the search has been on the starring Robin Williams. always kept them abreast of her ravaged Southern California. from Fox5SanDiego.com.
waters and shore of Lake Sheriff Bill Gore told ABC's whereabouts, wasn't home. Chelsea is taking four The Associated Press
Hodges, a popular area for trail "Good Morning America" on First, they called her cell phone, Advanced Placement courses contributed to this report.
runners. Monday that the questioning of then her friends. A friend's and applied to 11 colleges, with Five Filters featured article:
John Gardner III, 30, remained Gardner hadn't produced any mother suggested an AT&T an eye toward a career that Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
in custody without bail after his leads. Sheriff's spokeswoman, Web site, which led them to her would combine her interests in PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
a r r e s t o u t s i d e a M e x i c a n Jan Caldwell, declined to say if cell phone that was left inside writing and environmental Term Extraction.
r e s t a u r a n t i n s u b u r b a n searches of Gardner's home and her 1994 BMW parked near the protection. She has been
Escondido on Sunday. Steve his mother's San Diego home tennis courts at the park. accepted to two schools,
Walker, a spokesman for the yielded evidence. "Because it was so out of University of Washington and
San Diego County district Brent King, Chelsea's father, character for Chelsea not to tell University of British Columbia.

Seesmic updates Blackberry, Windows March 2, 1949: Around the World

Without Landing
Twitter apps Jason Paur (Wired Top refuelings, a B-50 propeller
Jessica Dolcourt A minor update to Seesmic's service. Stories) plane makes the first nonstop
(Webware.com) Twitter app for BlackBerry adds Originally posted at The Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:00:00 PM transglobal flight.
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20 Popular News/ Tech/ Politics/ E-reader News Edition

Family holds out hope for Calif. teen's return (AP) Google gives
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Walker, a spokesman for the old son, recounted their Diego. Their home was badly translation help
Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:49:24 AM San Diego County district
attorney's office, said a decision
daughter's disappearance.
Brent, 47, returned from the
damaged in 2007 wildfires that
ravaged Southern California.
with Chrome 4.1
SAN DIEGO – Chelsea King is would be made by Wednesday gym around 5:30 p.m. Chelsea is taking four Stephen Shankland
a straight-A student who plays about filing charges. Thursday, the same time his Advanced Placement courses (Webware.com)
French horn for the San Diego Gardner, of Lake Elsinore, wife, Kelly, 48, came home with and applied to 11 colleges, with Submitted at 3/1/2010 11:58:51 PM
Youth Symphony, runs on the pleaded guilty in May 2000 to groceries. Their daughter, who an eye toward a career that
school cross-country team and molesting a 13-year-old female always kept them abreast of her would combine her interests in The beta update, for Windows
actively volunteers in a peer neighbor and was sentenced to whereabouts, wasn't home. writing and environmental only, can automatically translate
counseling program. six years in prison. Prosecutors First, they called her cell phone, protection. She has been Web pages it detects are in a
At Poway High School, photos say he lured the victim to his then her friends. A friend's accepted to two schools, different language. Also: new
adorn the walls with the caption, home with an offer to watch " mother suggested an AT&T University of Washington and extensions work.
" L a s t s e e n 2 - 2 5 a t R B Patch Adams," a 1998 movie Web site, which led them to her University of British Columbia. Originally posted at Deep Tech
C o m m u n i t y P a r k w e a r i n g starring Robin Williams. cell phone that was left inside "She is one of the most driven,
running clothes." Sheriff Bill Gore told ABC's her 1994 BMW parked near the personable, caring people that
The 17-year-old's family and "Good Morning America" on
authorities are holding out hope Monday that the questioning of
tennis courts at the park.
"Because it was so out of
you could ever meet," Brent
King said. "Her goal in life is to
Obama's Pie
s h e w i l l r e t u r n s a f e l y . Gardner hadn't produced any
Thousands of volunteers have leads. Sheriff's spokeswoman
character for Chelsea not to tell
us or call us and say I'm going
brighten everyone's day. That's
what she does, and when she
Addiction
helped search for the teen since Jan Caldwell declined to say if
she disappeared Thursday, and searches of Gardner's home and
to be late ... we just had that
feeling," Brent King said.
walks into the room, you know
she's there."
Revealed
her father, Brent King, told his mother's San Diego home Kelly called 911 as her husband She often stays up studying past (Little Green Footballs)
C B S ' " T h e E a r l y S h o w " yielded evidence. drove to the park. Brent looked midnight, working so hard that Submitted at 3/1/2010 6:16:43 PM

T u e s d a y , " U n t i l I h e a r Brent King pleaded for anyone first at the tennis courts, then her parents urge her to ease off
differently, I believe she's with information about Gardner saw a trail headed into the and spend more time with President Obama likes pie.
alive." to come forward. Investigators woods. friends. Long-distance running Other well-known people who
But as optimistic searchers suspect Gardner could be tied to "I took off and ran down the was her escape. like(d) pie: Joseph Stalin, Karl
spread out over the popular area a Dec. 27 assault on a female trail as far as I could run, calling "That was her outlet when she Marx, and Glenn Beck. Draw
for trail runners, police were jogger from Colorado who out for my daughter at the top of was stressed about a test or your own conclusions.
determining whether to charge a fended off her attacker in the my voice in every direction," he needed to just clear her head," The Thanksgiving menu at the
registered sex offender who was same park. said. Kelly King said. White House included six kinds
a r r e s t e d S u n d a y f o r "Anybody who knows anything Chelsea was born in Poway, a Five Filters featured article: of pie. The White House pastry
investigation of the teen's about the person they have in well-to-do suburb of homes and Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: chef has said the first family’s
murder and rape. custody — whatever you want office parks northeast of San PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, favorite dessert is huckleberry
John Gardner III, 30, remained to call him, I can't even put a Diego. The family followed Term Extraction. cobbler with caramel ice cream.
in custody without bail after his word to it — please let us Brent King's job in mortgage (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
a r r e s t o u t s i d e a M e x i c a n know," he said. banking to the San Francisco
r e s t a u r a n t i n s u b u r b a n In an interview Monday, the Bay area and to the Chicago
Escondido on Sunday. Steve Kings, who also have a 13-year- area before returning to San
E-reader News Edition
Ford says he could have beaten NY Sen.
Gillibrand (AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:05:31 AM
NEW YORK – Former
Congressman Harold Ford Jr.
returned to his job as an
MSNBC pundit on Tuesday, one
day after announcing he
wouldn't run for U.S. Senate in
New York, and said he would
have won the primary but
worried that the intraparty battle
would have emboldened
Republicans.
Ford, who represented a
Tennessee district in the U.S.
House, had been publicly
exploring a possible Democratic
primary challenge in New York,
but announced Monday night in
a New York Times op-ed that he
wouldn't run. He said Tuesday
on MSNBC that he hopes
"another opportunity presents
itself."
Ford said he doesn't want to
divide the party and risk
strengthening the Republicans'
chance to take Sen. Kirsten
Gillibrand's seat. She was
appointed last year when Hillary
Rodham Clinton became U.S.
secretary of state.
"It would have been a close,
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Priya Ganapati (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:02:00 AM
tough, tough fight," he said
Tuesday. "The last thing I
wanted to see was for this seat
to go Republican."
Ford moved to New York after
losing the 2006 U.S. Senate race
in Tennessee, taking a job with
Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
He had spent the past seven
weeks traveling the state and
meeting with voters, Democratic
dignitaries and elected officials
to gauge support for a potential
campaign.
Many in the Democratic
establishment are backing
Gillibrand, including the White
House and New York Sen.
Charles Schumer, and sought to
discourage Ford from running.
In Ford's op-ed, he complained
of the party's "campaign to bully
me out of the race," claiming it
showed Democrats are nervous.
Gillibrand ignored Ford when
he first declared he was testing
the waters. But after Ford began
regularly challenging her, the
race that was not yet a race
quickly turned ugly.
Ford called Gillibrand various
names, including a hypocrite, a
liar, an unelected senator and a
parakeet who takes positions
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technology in smartphones but
based on whatever party leaders
tell her to do.
Gillibrand sought to paint Ford
as a wealthy carpetbagger who
cares only about his Wall Street
friends and who has tried to hide
the conservative streak that
made him popular in Tennessee.
As a congressman, Ford
described himself as "pro-life,"
said illegal immigrants should
be deported if caught and voted
for a constitutional amendment
to define marriage as a union
between a man and a woman.
Gillibrand spokesman Glen
Caplin said that no matter who
her opponent is this fall she
would "wage a vigorous
campaign on her strong record
and her vision for New York."
The news about Ford was
greeted with relief by some
Democrats who feared a
protracted primary battle would
leave them vulnerable to a
Republican challenge in
November. State party chairman
Jay Jacobs said Ford "sacrificed
his opportunity for the greater
good."
"I'm very pleased that he made
that decision," Jacobs said. "I
had stressed to him we need the
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Democratic party unified."
Those believed to be
considering runs on the GOP
line include real estate tycoon
and Daily News publisher
Mortimer Zuckerman and
former George W. Bush
administration adviser Dan
Senor. Attorney Bruce
Blakeman has declared his
candidacy.
Ford would have faced the
challenge of running without
wide support from New York's
Democratic power brokers.
Gillibrand has spent months
lining up endorsements from
labor unions, politicians and
interest groups crucial to
Democrats running statewide
races. She has been endorsed by
leaders of 59 of New York's 62
county party organizations,
including those in Democrat-
heavy Manhattan and the Bronx.
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Associated Press writer
Michael Hill contributed to this
story from Albany.
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ACORN Cleared
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Prosecutors in Brooklyn have
cleared ACORN of any
wrongdoing in their
investigation into the O’Keefe-
Giles ACORN sting videos.
Brooklyn prosecutors on
Monday cleared ACORN of
criminal wrongdoing after a four
-month probe that began when
undercover conservative
activists filmed workers giving
what appeared to be illegal
advice on how to hide money.
While the video by James
O’Keefe and Hannah Giles
seemed to show three ACORN
workers advising a prostitute
how to hide ill-gotten gains, the
unedited version was not as
clear, according to a law
enforcement source.
“ They edited the tape to meet
their agenda,” said the source.
“On Sept. 15, 2009, my office
began an investigation into
possible criminality on the part
of three ACORN employees,”
Brooklyn District Attorney
Charles Hynes said in a one-
paragraph statement issued
Monday afternoon. “That
investigation is now concluded
and no criminality has been
found.”
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GM recalls 1.3m cars over fault Tancredo

(BBC News | Americas |
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sometimes take when you buy a
complete system from a
supplier."
mighty row that could involve
the US and Japanese
governments as well as their
and braking problems.
The Japanese carmaker also
said on Tuesday that it is
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Submitted at 3/2/2010 3:40:03 AM
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Complaints largest automotive groups. repairing another 1.6 million
General Motors (GM) is GM said it had told the US car The NHTSA itself had been vehicles in the US and Japan Submitted at 3/1/2010 11:44:07 AM

recalling 1.3 million small cars safety regulator - the US investigating the problem since over leaky oil hoses.
in North America because of a National Highway Traffic Nativist former Rep. Tom
27 January after receiving more The Toyota recalls are still
power steering problem that has Safety Administration (NHTSA) Tancredo is bashing Sarah Palin
than 1,100 complaints, including being investigated by US
been linked to 14 crashes. — he says she only wants to sell
- about the recall on Monday 14 crashes and one injury. politicians, and three US Toyota
The firm said four models were when it finished an investigation books.
The recall covers the 2005 to bosses are due to appear later
affected - the Chevrolet Cobalt, that started last year. Which is odd, because
2010 model year Chevrolet before the Senate Committee on
Pontiac G5, Pontiac Pursuit and Tancredo’s in favor of
Good news at the Geneva Cobalt, and 2007 to 2010 Commerce, Science and
Pontiac 4. reinstating literacy tests, so
motor show is tempered by bad Pontiac G5 sold in the US. Transportation.
It said the fault meant that at news out of the US. you’d think he’d be in favor of
In addition, it includes the 2005 US Transportation Secretary
low speeds "greater steering GM hopes its investment of an books.
to 2006 Pontiac Pursuit sold in Ray LaHood has also been
effort may be required", but that additional 1.3bn euros in its Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-
Canada, and the 2005 to 2006 called to attend the hearing, as
the cars could still be "safely E u r o p e a n O p e l / V a u x h a l l Colo.) ripped into fellow Tea
Pontiac G4 sold in Mexico. the committee continues to
controlled". Party favorite Sarah Palin in a
subsidiary will convince "After our in-depth investigate the speed of the
GM blamed the fault on a European governments to back recent interview, saying she’s
investigation, we found that this recalls and the response of the
supplier partially owned by i t s r e m a i n i n g f u n d i n g not “presidential” and accusing
is a condition that takes time to authorities.
Toyota. her of simply trying to sell
requirements by guaranteeing develop," said GM vice Toyota president Akio Toyoda
GM vice-chairman Bob Lutz loans. books.
president of quality, Jamie appeared before a separate
told the BBC at the Geneva But as GM recalls some 1.3 In an interview published
Hresko. congressional committee last
Motor show: "This is a case million models in the US, it yesterday (via GOP 12)
"It tends to occur in older week - the House Oversight
where, yes, we would blame a s e e m s r e l u c t a n t t o t a k e Tancredo said he can’t see Palin
models out of warranty. Committee - to apologise and
p a r t i a l l y T o y o t a - o w n e d responsibility for the faulty as commander in chief.
Recalling these vehicles is the promise that lessons would be
supplier." “I really don’t have this feeling
power steering, as the part in right thing to do for our learned.
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Fla. Police Dept. Loses List With US senator blocks

Drug Informant Names benefit payout
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Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:25:43 AM on his bumper, and it fell off "People are going to be afraid to World Edition) Washington DC, a roundabout
while he drove away. come out and speak and talk Submitted at 3/1/2010 10:37:14 PM in the Virgin Islands and the
A Florida police department Altamonte resident Akasha about things if they have to sit entrance to a national park in
says one of its own lost a Coutur calls this sloppy police up and wonder if their Some 2,000 construction California because of the
c o n f i d e n t i a l l i s t o f t h e work for such an important list. information is going to get lost workers building road projects objections of just one senator.
department's drug informants "Losing your math homework is and someone's going to find across the US have been sent Funding for doctors working on
when a lieutenant misplaced a not that big of a deal, but that is them, and now they don't know home after a senator blocked a programmes for the poor,
flash drive, MyFoxOrlando.com putting peoples lives on the line if somebody's looking for bill to extend payments. unemployment benefit for a
reported. almost," she was quoted by them." Republican Jim Bunning single million people and payment for
D r u g i n f o r m a n t s t r u s t e d MyFoxOrlando.com. As of Monday night, the police -handedly blocked the cable television in the
Altamonte Springs Police to Police are not saying if anyone department's public information legislation, saying it would add c o u n t r y s i d e w i l l a l s o b e
protect them after giving up picked up the flash drive or how officer and the city's mayor had to the deficit. affected.
sensitive information. Now, many names or cases it contains. not returned our phone calls He used procedural tactics to Mr Bunning's Republican
some drug informants might Some say the mistake could requesting more information on delay the bill and a new vote colleagues may agree with his
wonder why they helped. make informants less likely to the story. will now have to be taken, general sentiment but no-one
The Police Department — help, fearing retaliation on the MyFoxOrlando.com knows the possibly next week. has publicly supported the
aware that the misplaced flash streets. name of the Lieutenant in Doctors and the unemployed senator who is retiring in
drive could endanger people "If they don't have informants, question, but won't reveal it may also be affected by failure November.
who trusted law enforcement — t h e y c a n ' t f i n d o u t a n y because he is undercover. We of a bill to extend payments for Democrats have condemned
issued the following statement: information about the drugs, so are told he is well liked and is government projects. him for hurting ordinary
" W e a r e a w a r e o f t h i s that just means the dealers and ready to retire soon. Political games Americans but know it adds to
information and are currently everybody are going to run Click here for more from Former baseball star Sen Jim their argument that gridlock in
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said the situation was worse
than he had expected.
"When we have a catastrophe of
this magnitude, when there is no
electricity and no water, the
population... starts losing the
sense of public order," he said.
About two million Chileans are
believed to have been affected
by Saturday's earthquake, the
seventh most powerful on
record and the worst disaster to
befall Chile in 50 years.
The epicentre of the quake was
115km (70 miles) north-east of
Concepcion and 325km south-
west of the capital Santiago.
About 1.5 million homes in
Chile have been damaged. Most
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The governor of the US state of
Texas, Rick Perry, has
posthumously pardoned a man
who had died in jail after being
wrongly convicted of rape.
It is the first time Texas has
issued a posthumous pardon.
In 1986, Tim Cole was
sentenced for the rape of a
student. He always maintained
he was innocent, right up to his
death.
He had spent 13 years in prison
when he died of an asthma
of the collapsed buildings were
of older design - including many
historic structures.
One US risk assessor, Eqecat,
has put the cost of repairing the
damage at between $15bn and
$30bn (£9.8bn - £19.6bn) or 10-
20% of the country's gross
domestic product.
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Mr Cole spurned an offer of
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meant accepting guilt.
Years after his death, his family
demanded DNA tests after they
received a letter from a
convicted rapist confessing to
the crime.
It transpired the man had
confessed earlier. He had sent
letters to court officials four
years before Mr Cole died - but
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Bogus Copyright Claim Silences Yet Another Larry Lessig
YouTube Presentation
Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 4:26:29 AM
Nearly a year ago, we wrote
about how a YouTube
presentation done by well
known law professor (and
strong believer in fair use and
fixing copyright law), Larry
Lessig, had been taken down,
because his video, in explaining
copyright and fair use and other
such things, used a snippet of a
Warner Music song to
demonstrate a point. There
could be no clearer example of
fair use -- but the video was still
taken down. There was some
dispute at the time as to whether
or not this was an actual DMCA
takedown, or merely YouTube's
audio/video fingerprinting
technology (which the
entertainment industry insists
can understand fair use and not
block it). But, in the end, does it
really make a difference? A
takedown over copyright is a
takedown over copyright.
Amazingly enough, it appears
that almost the exact same thing
has happened again. A video of
one of Lessig's presentations,
that he just posted-- a "chat" he
had done for the
OpenVideoAlliance a week or
so ago, about open culture and
fair use, has received notice that
it has been silenced. It hasn't
been taken down entirely -- but
the entire audio track from the
42 minute video is completely
gone. All of it. In the
comments, some say there's a
notification somewhere that the
audio has been disabled because
of "an audio track that has not
been authorized by WMG"
(Warner Music Group) -- which
would be the same company
whose copyright caused the
issue a year ago -- but I haven't
seen or heard that particular
message anywhere.
However, Lessig is now
required to fill out a
counternotice challenging the
Tech/ 25
how amazingly problematic
things get when you put
secondary liability on
companies like Google. Under
such a regime, Google would of
course disable such a video, to
avoid its own liability. The idea
that Google can easily tell what
is infringing and what is not is
proven ridiculous when
something like this is pulled off-
line (or just silenced). When a
video about fair use itself is
pulled down for a bogus
copyright infringement, it
proves the point. The
unintended consequences of
asking tool providers to judge
what is and what is not
copyright infringement lead to
tremendous problems with
companies shooting first and
asking questions later. They are
silencing speech, on the threat
takedown -- while silencing his direct claim by Warner Music.
that it might infringe on
video in the meantime: While In fact, the issue may be the
copyright.
you can still see the video on identical one, as I believe the
This is backwards.
YouTube, without the audio, it's problem last year was the
We live in a country that is
p r e t t y m u c h w o r t h l e s s . muppets theme, which very,
supposed to cherish free speech,
Thankfully, the actual video is very briefly appears in this
not stifle it in case it harms the
available elsewhere, where you video (again) as an example of
business model of a company.
can both hear and see it. But, fair use in action. But it was
We live in a country that is
really, the fact that Lessig has Warner Music and others like it
supposed to encourage the free
had two separate videos -- both that demanded Google put such
expression of ideas -- not lock it
of which clearly are fair use -- a fingerprinting tool in place
up and take it down because one
neutered due to bogus copyright (and such companies are still
company doesn't know how to
infringement risks suggests a talking about requiring such
adapt its business model. We
serious problem. I'm guessing tools under the law). And yet,
should never be silencing videos
that, once again, this video was this seems to show just how
l i k e l y c a u g h t b y t h e problematic such rules are. BOGUS page 26
fingerprinting, rather than a Even worse, this highlights just
26 Tech/
Court Says Domain Name Is Located Where Its
Registrar Is Located
Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 2:09:31 AM
It's been nearly a decade since
we first heard about John
Zuccarini -- an internet
character who made his name by
registering a ton of
typosquatting domain names,
and was sued a bunch of times
for it, but avoided dealing with
things for a while by being
impossible to find. And, even
when he was found, he was
notoriously vague in answering
questions. From a bit of
testimony from back in the day:
Question: What is your current
address?
Zuccarini: 957 Bristol Pike,
Apartment D-6, Andalusia,
Pennsylvania, 19020.
Q: Is that where you currently
reside?
Zuccarini: Not necessarily.
Q: Where do you currently
reside?
Zuccarini: I don't have - that's
my legal address. I really don't
have a permanent address at this
time.
Q: Where do you currently
reside?
Zuccarini: Right now, I am
staying at the Millennium Hotel
in New York.
Q: When you are not in New
York for a deposition, where do
you live? Where have you lived
in the past two weeks?
Zuccarini: I have been living in
various places.
Q. What are the various places
that you have been living?
Zuccarini: Friends' places. You
know, that type of thing.
Different hotels.
Q. 957 Bristol Pike is not your
residence?
Zuccarini: No, it's not. It's my
legal address. I have a lease on
the apartment and that's where I
have - some things are sent there
which I get.
Q: Do you live in
Pennsylvania?
Zuccarini: I don't know. I don't
have a permanent address so I
can live anywhere. I don't live
anywhere right now. I can't give
you a permanent address.
Eventually, the FTC ordered
that thousands of his sites
should be shut down. And then
it fined Zuccarini$1.9 million.
But, still no one could find him.
A year and a half later, he was
finally found and arrested
leading to an eventual guilty
plea. Of course, that didn't stop
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continued from page 25
because they might infringe on
copyright.
Situations like this demonstrate
the dangerous unintended
consequences of secondary
liability. At least with Lessig,
you have someone who knows
what happened, and knows how
to file a counternotice -- though,
him. In 2007, he was fined yet court finds that, indeed, domain who knows how long it will take
again by the FTC, this time for names are considered property, for this situation to be corrected.
typosquatting on domain names and that jurisdiction should be But for many, many, many other
that kids were likely to visit -- based on where the registrar of people, they are simply silenced.
and sending them to hardcore that domain is located(pdf) Silenced because of industry
porn sites. Yeah. He's that kind rather than wherever John efforts to turn copyright law into
of evil. Zuccarini may be hiding at the something it was never intended
Anyway, going all the way moment. Since, in this case, the to be: a tool to silence the wider
back to a decade ago, when registrar was VeriSign, and audience in favor of a few large
various companies were filing V e r i S i g n i s i n N o r t h e r n companies.
lawsuits against him, one such California... the court was ruled The system is broken. When
lawsuit involved Office Depot, to be the proper jurisdiction. even the calls to fix the system
which was none too pleased While the court does explain are silenced by copyright
about Zuccarini's registration that this appears to be exactly claims, isn't it time that we fixed
and use of offic-depot.com. what our anti-cybersquatting the system?
Office Depot sued and won, but laws say when it comes to Permalink| Comments| Email
given Zuccarini's slippery jurisdiction, that does lead to This Story
nature, was unable to collect its some other interesting legal
judgment. Eventually, Office questions when it comes to
Depot handed over the judgment jurisdictions. It seems like it
t o a c o m p a n y c a l l e d D S could be somewhat troubling if
Holding, who then wanted to get your domain is officially located
paid. It eventually asked a court wherever the registrar is in other
in Northern California to hand types of cases, as suddenly
over some of Zuccarini's other anyone registering a domain
domains to fulfill the judgment. name needs to take into account
The court agreed, but Zuccarini the location of the registrar in
appealed, claiming that the court case of a lawsuit.
in California had no jurisdiction Permalink| Comments| Email
over his domain names. This Story
Eric Goldman points us to the
ruling in the case where the
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The Sleepiest Apple
DOE's Chu looks to past for energy breakthroughs Design Timeline (But
(CNET News.com) underground storage of carbon chips for efficient power addition, the DOE has created Wait! In 3D!) [Apple]
Submitted at 3/2/2010 7:00:00 AM dioxide. electronics, which can be used what Chu calls "Bell Lablets"
matt buchanan (Gizmodo)
On Tuesday, Chu announced for a variety of application such where groups of academics from
W A S H I N G T O N - - E n e r g y that the ARPA-E is now taking as microinverters on solar different disciples are focused Submitted at 3/2/2010 9:14:32 AM

Secretary Steven Chu sees the solicitations for grid storage panels, wind turbine generators, on a single task, such as
solutions to today's energy technologies to complement or solid-state lighting. Because advanced biofuels or building It's too early for trance for this
challenges in the work of wind and solar energy, which many of the "best minds" in efficiency. mellow (mmm, bed...sleeeeeep)
scientists in decades past. are intermittent sources that can electrical engineering in the past The history of scientific but the 3D models of iconic
Chu delivered the opening cause a significiant drop in years went into microelectroncis breakthrough shows that giving Apple products from the
keynote at the first ARPA-E electricity flow in the grid. for computers, there is a skills talented people a specific focus Newton to the OG iBook to iPad
Summit here on Tuesday, where "If you want renewable energy shortage in this area, Chu said. but freedom to work on cutting- are genuinely delicioso enough
he used examples of historic to be 30 or 40 or 50 percent (of Unapologetic nerd edge technology leads to to keep your eyes open for.
technology breakthroughs as the power generation), you need During his talk, Chu outlined innovation in science, he said. Then sleep. [ Recombu]
m o d e l f o r m a k i n g n e w much better energy transmission the structure the DOE is seeking For example, after World War II
discoveries in clean energy. The a n d m u c h b e t t e r e n e r g y to establish in order to speed a researchers set off to make
Department of Energy is storage," he said. "It is "industrial revolution" that improvements on radar, which Botnets cause
seeking to recreate the structure a b s o l u t e l y e s s e n t i a l f o r decreases dependence on ultimately led to the
of research that yielded great r e n e w a b l e e n e r g y . " foreign oil, creates new jobs, development of lasers. surge in
technology jumps, such as the He also announced that the and addresses global warming. Improvements on that
precursor of the Internet or ARPA-E has set up a program Some programs are set up to eventually led to the creation of February spam
lasers. to fund development of air fund fundamental research and the first transistor at Bell Labs. (CNET News.com)
ARPA-E is an agency funded conditioners that are three times others are geared at "We're trying to upturn
Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:46:10 AM
last year with a goal of funding more energy efficiency than demonstration projects which innovation but in a time scale
b r e a k t h r o u g h e n e r g y today's machines. As people in seek to make improvements on and effort reminiscent of the Spam now accounts for close to
technologies on a relatively the developing world purchase existing technologies, such as Manhattan Project or Lincoln 90 percent of all e-mail
short time scale. So far, ARPA- air conditioners, the question of batteries for grid storage. Labs," he said. worldwide due to a surge in
E has awarded over$250 million efficiency becomes much more ARPA-E, which stands for Five Filters featured article: February, according to
in grants to companies and important, he said. Advanced Research Project- Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Symantec.
academic institutions, touching In addition, ARPA-E is offering Energy, is structured around PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
on a wide range of areas, g r a n t s t o c o m p a n i e s a n d very specific projects with a Term Extraction. BOTNETS page 28
including electric vehicles and researchers that can develop short time scale, he said. In

The FDA Takes on Cheerios

(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 3:00:00 PM
Last year the Food and Drug
Administration made itself
fodder for late-night comedy
when it warned the
manufacturer of Cheerios
against boasting about some of
the cereal's health benefits. "We
have determined [Cheerios] is
promoted for conditions that
cause it to be a drug," the FDA
said in a letter to General Mills.
By this logic, consumers would
need a prescription to buy a box
of the oats.
The letter typifies the FDA's
longstanding discomfort with
health claims made on food
labels, particularly those touting
the medical benefits of certain
diets and ingredients. FDA staff
worry the food claims aren't
backed by anything close to the
science that supports the
medical claims made on drug
labels. The two, they argue,
shouldn't be treated much
differently.
This article is available by
subscription from the Wall
Street Journal.
Scott Gottlieb, M.D., is a
resident fellow at AEI.
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BOTNETS
continued from page 27
Two botnets named Grum and
Rustock helped push spam
levels up 5.5 percent in
February over the prior month,
according to the security firm's
report(PDF). After doing
business as usual over the past
year, Grum suddenly sprang to
life in February, increasing the
amount of spam it generated by
51 percent. As a result, the
botnet is now to blame for 26
percent of all global spam.
Rustock also surged last month,
pushing up global spam levels
by 25 percent on February 17 to
the highest level for the entire
month. The rise of both botnets
were traced to activity related to
Canadian pharmaceutical spam,
Symantec said. One of the
hottest scams on the Internet,
pharmaceutical spam now is
responsible for 65 percent of all
worldwide spam.
"Whether the spammers are
trying to clear this spam run
more quickly or have discovered
that it is successful, they have
certainly been using multiple
botnets to distribute high-
volume spam campaigns in
February," Symantec
MessageLabs Intelligence senior
analyst Paul Wood said Monday
in a statement. "The activities of
this single spam operation have
been driving recent global
surges in spam rates and
strongly impacting global spam
levels in turn. Based on these
latest spam patterns, we can
predict additional surges in
spam in the coming weeks."
Though spam levels rose last
month, the size of the typical
spam message and the number
of junk e-mails with file
attachments both fell. The
average size of a spam e-mail is
now around 3.3KB compared
with 5KB in October. The
number of spam messages with
attachments dropped to 1
percent in February from 10
percent last April. But that's not
really good news, noted
Symantec, because spammers
now are hosting images online,
shrinking the size of each spam
and helping the botnets send out
more spam per minute.
The Waledac botnet also got
some press recently. Playing it
low-key for the past year,
Waledac spiked in January,
accounting for around 1 percent
of all malware caught. In its
effort to battle the botnets,
Microsoft was granted a court
order on February 22 that shut
down 277 domain names
apparently related to the spread
of Waledac. This move has
seemingly ended Waledac's
career for now.
The takedown of Waledac was
an effective step in the fight
against malware, Symantec
noted in the report, which
explained how the botnet
operated in the past.
"Malware connected to Waledac
are not distributed by the botnet
itself but are sent by other
botnets," Wood said. "Recently,
Waledac malware has been sent
from the Cutwail botnet. Also
noteworthy is that spammers
using the Waledac malware
seem particularly focused on the
major free Webmail hosting
services using email addresses
in use by individuals. Waledac
is adept at evading traditional
dormant honeypot addresses."
Spam levels reached 93.4
percent of all e-email in Italy
last month, making it the most
spammed country. Denmark
was next at 92.8 percent,
followed by Russia at 91.8
percent. In the United States,
90.2 percent of all e-mail was
spam in February, while in the
U.K., spam levels dropped at bit
to 88.6 percent.
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Glamorous-Looking
Kate Gosselin Says
She'll Win 'Dancing with
the Stars'
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 5:46:00 AM
A completely made-over Kate
Gosselin showed she's got the
legs for "Dancing with the
Stars" and explained her
strategy to win.
Appearing on " Jimmy Kimmel
Live" in a tight, peach and black
dress cut well above the knee
with her signature hairstyle long
gone -- replaced with curled
extensions and a fresh color --
the glamorous mother of eight
revealed how she'll train to
compete.
"I cannot dance," she admits,
but says, "I'm gonna win."

Fakeuccinos Are Frugal Starbucks Placebos [DIY Creations]

Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) cheaper. And, as one might also substitute a superior whether a good 15 minutes'
Submitted at 3/2/2010 5:30:00 AM Instructables coffee addict French press brew over his work on one weeknight could
shows, reusing your bottles aids Keurig-derived coffee, or use save you a good deal throughout
Those little bottled Starbucks the illusion. fancier cocoa or another recipe the week. Starbucks
f r a p p u c c i n o s ? N o t c h e a p . Take what starburst552 whips entirely. That's fine—just see Fakeuccino[Instructables]
Blending your own mocha up as more inspiration than what he has to show you,
beverages with hot cocoa mix direct step-by-step. You might though, about how little you're
and other add-ins? Not exactly not, for example, need to re-use trick yourself into believing really getting for your $2-and-
the same, but a good deal glass Frappuccino bottles to you're really having one. You up per bottle, and think about
E-reader News Edition Tech/ PopSci/ 29

AT&T plans for SXSW 2010 Twitter Location API to

Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
brand new genre of app, the
"check-in" network). So what's
going to be the app pushing data
Support Places
Submitted at 3/1/2010 8:00:00 PM
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
through the AT&T network this
Filed under: Gaming, Freeware, year? The buzz so far is around Submitted at 3/2/2010 1:19:21 AM

Internet, Apple, iPhone, sxsw Twitter's coming ad platform,

Happy March! The super hip I know what you may be
though it's hard to think that an
and trendy South-by-Southwest thinking: Twitter location API
ad platform could be a killer
music and tech festival is already supports places; that’s
app. My money's on some sort
coming up this month, and like why they call it the location
of location-based social game --
many tech conventions these API, right? Well, yes and no.
while Foursquare has gaming
days, AT&T is working on a Currently, it supports latitude their exact coordinates, but,
elements, I think an app like
plan to keep their network up and longitude, which tells the instead, are really happy to say
MyTown could take the concept
and running as thousands of world where, exactly, you were what city, or even
even farther, and we still haven't
iPhones descend on Austin, located when you tweeted. neighborhood, they are in.
really seen an actual GPS-based
Texas to send around voice, But now Twitter’s Raffi annotating your place with a
RPG or MMO break out. Even
texts, and data. Krikorian promises support for name does that too.”
Macworld-- while my iPhone those of us who aren't at SXSW places, meaning locations (not Sounds like a minor detail, but
GigaOM has a little insight into worked fine most of the time, I this year will be paying attention
how they're planning to do it still only have a 1G, and I was to what people are doing on necessarily very precisely it’s actually quite important,
this year, and if you're interested u s i n g S p r i n t M i F i o n m y their iPhones there, because defined) with a name, such as because it gives Twitter the
in the nuts-and-bolts of keeping Macbook most of the time), but odds are good that the app that “Joe’s Bar on Manhattan” or ability to compete with location-
a cell phone network up and i t s o u n d s l i k e a p r e t t y clicks with attendees there will “downtown LA.” From the based services such as
running (or at least trying to -- c o m p r e h e n s i v e s e t u p . Twitter API announcements Foursquare or Gowalla, which
be what we're all playing with in
this is AT&T, after all), it's Of course, the other reason a few months. message board: let you check in at various
worth a read. They're beefing up AT&T is pushing to get ready TUAW AT&T plans for SXSW “Our goal is to provide a few locations and share them with
the cell towers in the city's for SXSW is that the convention 2010 originally appeared on The more options to API developers your friends.
vicinity, setting up a whole new has become sort of an unofficial U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g (and the users they are For further analysis of the
system around the convention testing ground for the next big (TUAW) on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 servicing) through this importance of location sharing
center itself, and putting money social apps. A few years ago, 20:00:00 EST. Please see our contextual information. people, on Twitter see our recent article
into the backend as well, to try Twitter made its first big push terms for use of feeds. we find, inherently want to talk on the subject. It’s important to
and increase bandwidth coming around SXSW, and last year, Read| Permalink| Email this| about a “place”. a place, for a note, though, that Twitter will
into the region. I don't know if Foursquare was the app to use Comments lot of people, has a name and is gradually rollout these new
they've done anything like this (which has since spawned a not a latitude and longitude pair. features, starting with the US, so
before (I can't really judge with (37.78215, -122.40060), for competitors will have some time
example, doesn’t mean a lot to a to prepare for whatever Twitter
Chile Quake Shortened Day by 1.26 Microseconds lot of people — but, “San plans to do with location.
Francisco, CA, USA” does. Tags: api, location, trending,
Clay Dillow (Popular Science - Earth's axis, shifting the planet's that spawned the Indian Ocean
New Technology, Science we’re also trying to help users twitter
mass enough to shave 1.26 tsunami in 2004 subtracted a who aren’t comfortable
News, The Future Now) microseconds (millionths of a whopping 6.8 microseconds. annotating their tweets with
Submitted at 3/1/2010 1:21:52 PM second) from all Earthly days
The 8.8 magnitude seismic going forward, a NASA scientist
shock that rocked Chile over the says. But that's nothing; the
weekend likely also rocked the magnitude 9.1 Sumatran quake
30 Tech/
Open source: Still room for the little Assassin's Creed II
guy?
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:08:49 AM
Open source started small, but
it's increasingly looking like it's
a game for big vendors to play.
That's because open source is
all about scale, which is hard to
attain as a small player. MySQL
took 10 years, Red Hat wasn't
much faster, and JBoss was also
a long-term project.
Companies like IBM, Oracle,
and even Microsoft find it much
easier to get quickly to scale
through their built-in
communities.
Is open source a game only an
IBM can play?
There is no such thing as
automatic community, of
course, so we see companies
(big and small, but mostly
small) either latching onto
existing communities and then
trying to monetize them. Or we
see big companies kick-starting
community, as Google has done
with Android.
The downside to the small-
company-big-community
approach is that it can be hard to
sell value around a community
that is used to getting everything
free of charge.
The upside to the big-company-
create-community approach is
that large-scale enterprises
generally don't need to worry
about selling value because they
E-reader News Edition
multiplayer, Rayman 2
out now on the iPhone
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial see from the trailer above, this
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
one's been ported by Gameloft.
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:00:00 PM As with most iPhone
platformers, the game uses
Filed under: Gaming, Software, virtual controls, but Touch
Freeware, iPhone, App Store Arcade says they work just fine.
Two major league games have The save system is the biggest
hit the App Store already this issue -- your iPhone is not the
week, one of them for the best platform for playing games
surprise price of free. Ubisoft for long stretches of time, and
has released the multiplayer any game that kicks you back
version of their Assassin's Creed out to a menu if you happen to
II game on the App Store, and step away for a second will
it's available for free for the first cause frustration eventually.
48 hours. The game's a top- Still, it sounds like a solid
down multiplayer game that has platformer port, and there are
already have profitable product about "The Man" taking over you walking around the world of certainly fans of those out there.
lines that complement the open- open source. Open-source the console version, both The game is$6.99 on the App
source projects they feed. projects of all shapes and sizes targeting other players and Store right now.
T h i s h a s b e c o m e a n continue to sprout and flourish being targeted yourself. All the TUAW Assassin's Creed II
i n c r e a s i n g l y i n t e r e s t i n g outside the control of the reports say it's definitely worth a multiplayer, Rayman 2 out now
approach for companies as enterprise-software hegemons, try, and if you can catch it o n t h e i P h o n e o r i g i n a l l y
d i v e r s e a s I B M , A p p l e , or by any company at all. before they raise the price back appeared on The Unofficial
F a c e b o o k , a n d M i c r o s o f t . Sure, to thrive many will seek up (sounds like Ubisoft is trying Apple Weblog (TUAW) on
Indeed, open source accounts outside sponsorship, either from t o f i n d a p l a c e f o r t h e i r Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:00:00
for much of the most interesting a V C o r a s t r a t e g i c r e l e a s e s ) , y o u s h o u l d . EST. Please see our terms for
tech strategy such companies investor/partner like IBM. And as expected, Rayman 2 is use of feeds.
engage in. And for some B u t m a n y o t h e r s w o n ' t , also out on the App Store -- it's Read| Permalink| Email this|
c o m p a n i e s , i t ' s t h e o n l y preserving the rich tradition of a port of the 3D Playstation Comments
interesting tech outreach they both serving The Man and platformer that was actually a
do, at least in the view of this sticking a finger in his eye-- Ubisoft property, but as you can
highly biased open-source often at the very same time.
advocate. Five Filters featured article:
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HootSuite Rolls Out Android Apps
and iPhone App Upgrade
Jennifer Van Grove
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 7:09:54 AM
Popular professional Twitter
app maker HootSuite has just
updated its iPhone app and
released three new mobile
applications.
HootSuite’s mobile arsenal now
includes a total of four apps —
iPhone and Android apps in
both full and free versions.
You may recall that
HootSuite’s iPhone app retails
for $1.99 and is designed to
appeal to business Twitter users
with a robust functionality that
includes unlimited account
support and stats and analytics
on shared media.
Now version 1.2 supports
Facebook integration and
landscape view. There’s an even
a free “Lite” version that
maintains a majority of the
functionality, but dumps the
price tag and sacrifices the click
GM triples funding for Opel to €1.9bn
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 4:52:27 AM
General Motors announced on
Tuesday that it was increasing
its contribution to the
restructuring of Opel from
€600m to €1.9bn ($2.6bn) –
Tech/ Economy/ 31
New Chrome Beta
Offers Automatic Web
the same as its iPhone twin —
also includes click-through
statistics for Twitter data
Page Translation
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
analysis.
Of course, given that HootSuite Submitted at 3/2/2010 2:56:21 AM
bills itself as the professional
There’s a new beta version of
Twitter client you can expect the
Chrome available (version
mobile apps to integrate nicely
4.1.249.1021), bringing two
with your web account. Existing
-through date and unlimited HootSuite users can import their very nifty features to Google’s
account support feature in the configured accounts and sync browser.
process. First is automatic translation of
their activity between the web web page, which is an odd
HootSuite’s also introducing client and the mobile apps. web pages in language different
two brand new Android from your preferred language omission, especially given the
As the Android operating fact that Chrome’s language
applications, both of which system continues to gain market setting in Chrome. The browser
bring the same robust HootSuite share, HootSuite’s expansion on automatically detects the detection doesn’t work perfectly
yet.
Twitter iPhone experience to to that platform makes absolute language and offers you an
Android devices, but with sense. In fact, in the months option (via a drop-down menu The other interesting feature in
the new Chrome beta are the
background notifications to ahead we expect to see more bar below the bookmarks bar) to
boot. Both versions of the app iPhone-only apps — especially translate it, using Google’s new privacy settings, available
under Options – Under the Hood
s u p p o r t m u l t i p l e T w i t t e r popular social media standbys translation tools. I’ve tried it
accounts (the Lite version is — make their way over to out, and while it works well on – Privacy. With the new options,
you can fine tune your privacy
limited to three accounts), Android as well. some pages, sometimes it
message scheduling, hashtag doesn’t recognize the language settings and control how
Tags: android, hootsuite, Chrome handles cookies,
and search streams, photo- and iphone, iphone app, Mobile 2.0, (for example, Baidu.com is not
URL-sharing, and trending twitter recognized as a Chinese web images, JavaScript, plug-ins,
and pop-ups for individual sites.
topics descriptions. The full- page, possibly because it
featured version — which costs contains very little text). Check out a demo of the
automatic translation feature, as
You can also set Chrome to
always translate pages in a well as the new privacy settings,
certain language, which really
can speed up your browsing if
below.
Tags: chrome, Google,
more than half the €3.7bn it says contribution to Opel’s €3.7bn translation
you often open pages in foreign
it needs to turn round its restructuring plan, which was languages. However, there’s no
lossmaking European originally set at €3.3bn but has option to manually translate a
operations. since been lifted due to pressure
The move came less than a day from the German government.
after Nick Reilly, the head of Five Filters featured article:
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Opera 10.5 is Out, Dubs

Itself the Fastest
Browser on Earth
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 4:54:17 AM

The debate about web browser

speed never ends. When it came
out, Firefox was considered
speedy, but then Opera and
Google Chrome kept
recapturing the “speediest
browser” title and the race 7/Vista, letting you access your
Al Gore taunted at shareholders' hasn’t ended to this day. Still,
Opera is the browser that has
Speed Dials, tabs and other
features diretcly from the
been focusing on speed the
meeting, gets 10k more options most, partly due to its Opera
Turbo feature, which
taskbar.
Furthermore, Opera 10.5
features a new JavaScript
anyway compresses web pages on
Opera’s servers so users can get
engine, Carakan, and a new
graphics library called Vega.
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial with the environment. Shelton according to Apple's current them faster. Both should improve browsing
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Ehrlich (who apparently has a stock price. Good deal. At least Now, with Opera 10.5, the folks speed, with Carakan being as
Submitted at 3/1/2010 10:00:00 PM reputation among Apple one of Apple's shareholders isn't at Opera once again claim that much as 7 times faster than the
shareholders as a conspiracy too happy with Gore's work for Opera is the “fastest browser on Futhark JavaScript engine used
Filed under: Apple Corporate, believer) stood up and called the environment, but the Earth”. We’ve covered the in Opera 10.10. Finally, Opera’s
Apple Financial, Apple Gore a "laughingstock," railing relationship between Gore and various development builds of private browsing features allow
Last week in this post and last against Gore's re-election to the Apple seems like it's here to stay Opera 10.5, but here’s another you to browse privately either in
night during the talkcast, we board of directors. Good times - for a while. rundown of the most important a tab or a separate window.
m e n t i o n e d t h a t A p p l e ' s - we're sure Gore is used to TUAW Al Gore taunted at features in the final version of You can freely download Opera
shareholders had passed on a dealing with controversies like shareholders' meeting, gets 10k Opera 10.5. 10.5 for over on the official
sustainability proposal during that, but we wouldn't have more options anyway originally Opera has increased room for Opera site and see a full list of
last week's meeting (the first e x p e c t e d i t a t t h e A p p l e appeared on The Unofficial content on your screen by changes in the new version here.
time in recent memory that s h a r e h o l d e r m e e t i n g . Apple Weblog (TUAW) on replacing the menu bar with the Tags: opera, web browsers
Apple didn't go for stricter Still, that hasn't dissuaded him Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:00:00 menu button. The new version
environmental standards), but from working with the company EST. Please see our terms for also integrates with Windows
apparently the shareholders -- according to an SEC filing, he use of feeds.
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Man Creates Useful City Parking Hivision SpeedPad Android

iPhone App... And City Doesn't Get tablet has an ARM11 and a
Upset very inexpensive price
Tablet dongle connectivity and also
Mike Masnick (Techdirt) that city officials would be upset tickets to give out, they'd have (BestTabletReview.com) features a 4200mAh battery
Submitted at 3/1/2010 8:00:00 PM about it. But... instead, they less revenue -- but it's great to Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:10:00 PM good for 6 hours of use between
actually seem happy about it: He see the city endorsing this sort charges. Other goodies include
It's really tragic that this even just start selling his Elgin of thing, where a citizen is free JKK is living up to his mobile web browser, email, webcam
seems like it's worth a post at Parking iPhone application last to help make life better for name by running around the a n d a f e w o t h e r c h o i c e
all, but we've seen so many week, but already city officials others in the city. And... since CeBIT show filming a lot of a p p l i c a t i o n s .
ridiculous stories of people are commending him. For a people sometimes complain that interesting toys. Among them is However the main ear-perker is
creating cool and useful apps for download price of $1.99, it too many of the stories on a n e w A n d r o i d t a b l e t b y that Hivision says they will
their cities or universities-- only helps people comply with the Techdirt are negative, it seemed Hivision called the SpeedPad. wholesale the SpeedPad for
to have officials freak out that city's odd/even parking law. worth a post to give kudos to The Hivision SpeedPad has a 7- under $100. If true, that could
outsiders are somehow violating Hopefully, this means that Elgin for not doing the stupid inch 800 x 480 resolution LCD make this tablet one fast seller.
intellectual property laws, and common sense is making a bit things that many other cities touchscreen, Samsung ARM11 Source: Jkkmobile
only official city/university apps of a comeback. I half expected have done. In this day and age, 800MHz processor, 2GB of Five Filters featured article:
should be allowed. So, when officials to either be upset that that's progress. storage, 256 DDR2 RAM and Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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Illinois who created a simple selling an app that helped people This Story external 3G, Bluetooth and GPS Term Extraction.
iPhone app to help people avoid avoid parking tickets, or be
parking tickets, it just felt likely upset that, with fewer parking

Despite legal threats, Apple stair back on Ebay Open WiFi To Become
A Liability In The UK
Dave Caolo (The Unofficial them away if he could have one, they still claim ownership of the Under Digital Economy
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) and they said yes, according to stair. Buyer beware, indeed.
Mark's story on Gizmodo. After [Via ifoapplestore]
Bill
Submitted at 3/2/2010 10:15:00 AM
storing it at his place for a TUAW Despite legal threats, Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Filed under: Apple Corporate, while, he decided to put it up for Apple stair back on Ebay Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:00:57 AM
Retail, Odds and ends A former auction on Ebay. originally appeared on The
Apple Store employee has Shortly thereafter, Seele Unofficial Apple Weblog Back in January, while in
defied legal threats and re-listed c o n t a c t e d M a r k t o c l a i m (TUAW) on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 France, I experienced firsthand
a broken stair on Ebay. ownership of the stair and 10:15:00 EST. Please see our one of the "unintended
In 2008, three broken stairs demand that the auction be up. As of this writing, the bid is terms for use of feeds. consequences" of France
were removed from the spiral t a k e n d o w n a n d t h e s t a i r at US$9,9500. It's only a 3-day Read| Permalink| Email this| rushing forwarding with a "three
staircase in the Fifth Avenue returned to them. Mark removed auction, so get your bid in early. Comments strikes" law that kicks people
Apple retail store in New York. the auction but refused to return Also be aware that the winner off the internet based on
F o r m e r e m p l o y e e M a r k the stair, claiming that it had will take home a massive glass accusations (not convictions).
Burstiner asked the Seele GmbH become his property. step (it weighs more than
employees who were hauling Now, the Ebay listing is back 200lbs) as well as Seele's ire -- OPEN page 34
34 Tech/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition
OPEN
continued from page 33

Because of that, the idea of open While it doesn't technically

WiFi is now pretty much
gone(which, amusingly, was
pissing off the very same music
execs who were such big fans of
the law). It seems that
something similar might be
happening in the UK, as the
folks behind the much maligned
Digital Economy Bill have
admitted that there will be no
exceptions for anyone operating
an open WiFi network, even a
library or a university. Thus, if
a library had an open WiFi
network, and it received a few
accusations of file sharing, Peter
Mandelson could decide to kick
them off the internet for as long
as he would like.
"outlaw" open WiFi, it does put
such a big liability on it that it
leads to the same result. It
effectively makes it so that no
one, not even community
organizations, will want to offer
open WiFi. At a time when the
UK government claims it's
trying to encourage greater
connectivity, it seems pretty
silly to put in place a law that
could lead to exactly the
opposite.
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On February 2, at the first
Senate hearings on gays in the
military since 1993, Admiral
Mike Mullen became the only
sitting Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff to support
allowing gays and lesbians to
serve openly in the military. He
said the “institutional integrity”
of the armed forces demands
that they stop forcing gay
service members to lie in order
to serve their country. The
current policy of “don't ask,
don't tell” (DADT), Mullen
argued, ends up needlessly
“devaluing” a critical segment
of the military population.
But the endorsement of
DADT’s repeal by the top brass-
-Defense Secretary Robert Gates
has said he backs the plan,
which President Obama has
pledged to work with Congress
to implement--was tempered by
concerns that a quick timetable
would be unwise. Gates said he
wants a study period to “help
inform the legislative process of
some facts about the attitudes of
our men and women in uniform,
what they think about a change
in the law, [and] what their
families think.” He added, “The
truth is, we don't have any
facts.”
But is that true? While taking
time to study the transition may
seem reasonable at first blush,
the reality is that the
government, the military, and
independent researchers have
been studying this issue for
decades. And all of their
findings point to the same truth:
Openly gay service does not
impair military effectiveness.
What's more, existing research
already shows what steps should
be taken to repeal DADT. It’s
far from clear what good will
come from another year of study
--but it's easy to see
obstructionists using the
window to sow fear and doubt
as a tactic to kill the plan for a
repeal.
Indeed, the script emerging
from this month’s opening salvo
at the DADT hearings is eerily
similar to the one that played
out in 1993, when President Bill
Clinton’s effort to lift the gay
ban was derailed during a six-
month study period. During that
window, opponents of reform,
led by the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
rallied to defend the status quo,
forming a wall of military
resistance that some said
amounted to insubordination.
They were joined by skeptical
members of Congress.
Ultimately, Clinton yielded to
the pressure and backed away
from his promise. To avoid a
repeat of that debacle, it’s
crucial to understand both what
went wrong last time and what
mountains of research already
tell us about how to end
discrimination against gay
troops.
In his first State of the Union,
Obama vowed to repeal DADT,
and, at the subsequent Senate
hearings, Gates said the military
would take up the president’s
charge. “The question before us
is not whether the military
prepares to make this change but
how we best prepare for it,"
Gates noted. In 1993, then-
Defense Secretary Les Aspin,
also said he would follow the
president's directive to
determine how, not whether, to
lift the ban. To that end, Aspin
ordered two different studies--
one by the RAND Corporation,
an esteemed think tank with
close ties to the military, the
other by a “Military Working
Group” (MWG) of active, high-
ranking officers, who would
give the military’s “independent
judgment” about how to
proceed. But things didn't quite
go as planned.
RAND commissioned a team of
75 social scientists from its
National Defense Research
Institute to study the issue. They
examined scientific literature on
group cohesion, the experiences
of foreign militaries, the theory
and history of institutional
change, public health concerns,
the history of racial integration
in the military, policies on
sexuality in police and fire
departments, and numerous
other issues. The result was a
500-page report confirming that
there was no evidence that
openly gay service members
posed a threat to the military,
recommending that the armed
forces not consider sexual
orientation when determining
who should serve, and outlining
a clear, quick process for lifting
the gay ban. But the report,
which cost taxpayers $1.3
million, barely made it out of
RAND's Santa Monica
headquarters because, according
to The New York Times,
Pentagon officials tried to keep
the study from going public.
They ultimately never
considered it when shaping
policy, the Times reported,
because of resistance from the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Precisely
the same thing had happened
with previous studies on gays in
the military. The Navy’s 1957
Crittenden Report and the1988
and 1989 studies from the
Pentagon’s Personnel Security
Research and Education Center
(PERSEREC) both found that
there was no basis for the gay
ban, yet both were buried.)
Instead, with President
Clinton’s reluctant blessing, the
military opted to focus on the 15
-page report written by the
MWG, a panel of five senior
generals and admirals. The
group had undertaken its charge
begrudgingly. Only when press
reports revealed that no action
had been taken several months
after their appointment did the
members even meet. Offering
no proofwhatsoever, the final
Politics/ 35
report stated, “All
homosexuality is incompatible
with military service.” Going
further, it cast homosexuals as
dangerous: “Due to their sexual
practices, active male
homosexuals in the military
could be expected to bring an
increased incidence of sexually
transmitted diseases,” including
AIDS, which could create the
perception of an “enemy
within.”
With backlash mounting,
Clinton gave up his effort to lift
the gay ban and, instead, agreed
to compromise by crafting a
new law with Congress. In
November 1993, he signed
DADT, which instructed the
military to stop asking recruits
about their sexual orientation
but also called for service
members to be discharged if
they said they were gay or
engaged in homosexual conduct.
The next month, the Pentagon,
using the MWG report as a
blueprint, issued its own DADT
regulations, consistent with the
new law. All of the evidence
from the RAND study--not to
mention from the Crittenden and
PERSEREC reports--was
simply ignored.
Seventeen years later, Gates has
asked RAND to update its
findings, and he has appointed
another MWG. But what would
an updated RAND report, much
less another MWG study, add to
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Venice in Texas
Jed Perl (The New Republic - recent discovery of a fourth group of artists--among them name events. Monet--or, for that public spaces--you see them in
All Feed) fragment in Austin, can we see Mark di Suvero, Robert matter, Warhol--has a proven new museums all over the world
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:00:00 PM what Veronese had in mind. No Grosvenor, and David Novros-- track record when it comes to --there is the assumption that if
matter that several pieces are who were re-imagining the old bringing in a reluctant public. you build it big, big crowds will
Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli still missing and are unlikely to Abstract Expressionist swagger And if you seek sponsors for a come. The truth is that the
Altarpiece be recovered: the Petrobelli in terms of their own Monet show, you won’t have to people who do come end up
Blanton Museum of Art Altarpiece, some fifteen feet increasingly hard-edged, cope with the blank looks with feeling small.
Combine a mystery and a h i g h , t u r n s o u t t o b e a n conceptual, and technologically which the name Cambiaso will But what is the Blanton to do in
masterpiece and what do you a s t o n i s h i n g l y p o w e r f u l oriented sensibilities. And two be received. Innovative curators these straitened times? A few
have? You have “Paolo meditation on themes of years before that, Jonathan such as Bober and Henderson months ago the National
V e r o n e s e : T h e P e t r o b e l l i mortality and immortality. Bober, the curator of European are fighting an uphill battle, no Endowment for the Arts
Altarpiece,” a small, perfectly Veronese brings a luxuriant art at the Blanton who is question about it. released a rather bleak “Survey
focused exhibition recently at gravitas to his representations of responsible for bringing the Ned Rifkin, the new director of of Public Participation in the
the Blanton Museum of Art at saints and sinners alike. The Veronese show to Austin, the Blanton, arrives at a Arts,” indicating that although
the University of Texas at canvas, for all its bold public organized a retrospective of the museum where there is surely a museums were faring better than
Austin. The show--which has appeal, has undercurrents of sixteenth-century Italian painter desire to enlarge the audience other cultural institutions,
also been seen at the Dulwich haunted, dusky reverie. Luca Cambiaso. He is best for art in Austin. This is an attendance at art museums and
Picture Gallery in London and Mounted in one of New York’s known today for his altogether honorable objective. galleries was down to 22.7
the National Gallery of Canada m a j o r m u s e u m s , “ P a o l o geometricized drawings of the For the Blanton, which has in percent of the adult population
in Ottawa--comes with a Veronese: The Petrobelli human figure, which have long recent years considerably in 2008, from a high of 26.7
backstory engaging enough to Altarpiece” would be hailed as had a cult following among expanded its operations, fund- percent in 1992. Frankly, I think
make museum-goers pay close exactly the kind of brilliant, painters, who see their sharply raising is perhaps more of a there can be too much anxiety
attention. concise exhibition we need in angled forms as a prefiguration priority now than ever. One has about that missing 4 percent.
In the 1560s, already in these recessionary times. In of Cubism. In his paintings, only to consider the museum’s We are not selling Pepsi here.
command of his genius for Austin, the exhibition was Cambiaso’s mingling of ambitious new building We are selling the experience of
opulent decorative effects, embraced by a loyal audience analytical rigor and poetic complex, which opened in Veronese. Anybody running an
V e r o n e s e p a i n t e d a v a s t that has come to expect world- fantasy occasionally brings to stages between 2006 and 2008. arts organization must attend to
altarpiece for a Franciscan class scholarly work from the mind the uncanniness of There are civilized, invitingly the bottom line: we can all agree
church in the town of Lendinara, curators at the Blanton. When I Uccello. The Blanton was the proportioned galleries for the about that. What I would like to
not far from Venice. Two was last in Austin, a little over a only American venue for this museum’s permanent collection, hear from more museum
centuries later, after the convent year ago, the museum was host unprecedented event. with strengths in mid-twentieth- directors is an insistence that in
with which the church was to a show unlike “The Petrobelli “Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli century American painting, in a country as wealthy as this one-
associated was suppressed, the Altarpiece” in every respect Altarpiece,” “Reimagining modern Latin American art, and -and this is still a rich country,
altarpiece was acquired by an art except its sky-high quality. This Space: The Park Place Gallery in late Renaissance, Baroque, recession or no recession--
dealer, and he cut it into pieces was “Reimagining Space: The Group,” and the Luca Cambiaso and Rococo painting, drawing, museums have an obligation to
and sold them off one by one-- Park Place Gallery Group in retrospective epitomize a kind and printmaking. There is also present the finest work in the
“just like meat in a butcher’s 1960s New York,” organized by of offbeat, imaginative an unfortunate tendency toward most uncompromising way,
shop,” as the Scottish artist Linda Dalrymple Henderson, an programming that is at risk in gigantism in these interiors, because in the long run that is
Gavin Hamilton observed at the art historian at the University of our museums even in the best of beginning with a sky-high how you sustain a culture.
time. Only now, after decades of Texas. Henderson brought times, and is most certainly at atrium and formal staircase that So far as I can see, that kind of
work resolving the relationship unexpected shadings to our risk today. There are perfectly a visitor cannot help finding old-fashioned thinking has
o f f r a g m e n t s i n L o n d o n , understanding of New York in good reasons why museum simultaneously overbearing and VENICE page 44
Edinburgh, and Ottawa, plus the the 1960s by focusing on a administrators prefer brand- bland. Behind such overblown
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the debate? RAND's findings
remain accurate, as no new
social science data has emerged
that finds homosexuality to be
incompatible with military
service. To the contrary, post-
1993 studies on gays in the
military have only bolstered the
RAND report and showed that
another research delay mandated
by the military's top brass would
do no good--indeed, it might
actually do harm.
According to the original
RAND study, the two of the
most important factors in a
personnel policy transition like
the repeal of DADT are decisive
leadership and a single code of
conduct for all personnel. But
RAND also found that a
successful new policy must be
“decided upon and implemented
as quickly as possible” to avoid
anxiety and uncertainty. "[F]ast
and pervasive change will signal
commitment to the [new]
policy," and “any waiting period
also permits restraining forces to
consolidate." These findings are
supported by decades of
research on institutional change,
public policy implementation,
and cohesion theory. Much of
that literature has focused on
leadership and institutional
culture. In their 1983 book,
Implementation and Public
Policy, for instance, Daniel
Mazmanian and Paul Sabatier
note the importance of, as the
RAND report described,
“committed implementers as
driving forces for policy
change.” And, in their 1986
book, The Political Hand,
Barbara Ferman and Martin
Levin explain that the key to
effective change is having
leaders communicate that a new
policy is now consistent with the
institutional identity of a group.
Such research has been borne
out in foreign militaries that
have lifted their own gay bans.
This week, the Palm Center,
where I work, released the
largest study in history assessing
the experiences of other
countries with openly gay
service. The study, of which I
am the principal author, details
the implementation process in
Britain, Canada, Australia,
South Africa and Israel, five of
the 25 countries that have
moved to let gays serve openly.
Central to these five cases were
swift, simple implementation of
new policies (usually in under
four months) under the guidance
of strong leadership. Despite
some substantial grumbling at
first, the new policies enjoyed
wide acceptance throughout the
countries’ armed forces in a
relatively short amount of time.
Another Palm Center study that
I coauthored, which will appear
in a book published this spring
by an Air Force publishing arm
(and which is already available
on the Palm Center’s
website), details specific
regulations and organizational
changes that would be required
to repeal DADT in the United
States. The number of necessary
changes would be quite small,
as existing military regulations
already address interpersonal
issues such as sexual
harassment, fraternization,
romantic relationships, and
public displays of affection,
which are frequently raised in
discussions about lifting the ban.
Even those changes that would
be required would not involve
any new bureaucratic apparatus,
as the military already has in
place a process for the periodic
revising, reissuing, or cancelling
of its regulations.
And yet, while research clearly
shows that the process of
allowing gays to serve openly
would be straightforward,
harmless, and most effective if
done quickly and confidently, its
opponents have continued to
cast it as too fragile to tackle.
Using an approach that might be
called the “thorny questions”
strategy, they have sought to fill
the airwaves with unjustified
doubts about whether and how
quickly the ban could be lifted.
It was a plan that worked in
1993. That January, Georgia
Senator Sam Nunn, a Democrat
who led the charge for DADT,
said on the Senate floor, “Too
many times, we in the political
world send down edicts and
don’t think about the
implications of the things that
have to follow.” Nunn then
served up dozens of “thorny
questions” in quick, and rather
angry, succession:
What would be the impact of
changing the current policy on
recruiting, retention, morale,
discipline, as well as military
effectiveness? … Should there
be restrictions on homosexual
acts with other military
personnel, or only with non-
military personnel? … If
discrimination is prohibited,
how would a non-discriminatory
policy affect pay and benefits
and entitlements? Should
homosexual couples receive the
same benefits as legally married
couples? … If homosexual
couples are given such benefits,
will they also have to be granted
to unmarried heterosexual
couples?
On and on Nunn went, despite
the fact that the bulk of his
questions had already been
answered, namely by the
neglected RAND report. Nunn
insisted that the military get to
“study this for whatever time
they’d like, and we’re going to
have the time to ask the key
questions over here in Senate
hearings, and most of all--most
fundamentally--to hear from the
men and women in uniform.”
Today, we are hearing the same
argument. Representative Buck
McKeon of California, a
Republican, has said that
changing law in Congress
before the Pentagon’s new
Working Group conducts
research would “[place] the cart
37
before the horse.” (The research
is due just after the Democrats
are expected to lose seats in mid
-term elections in November.)
And, despite the evidence
undercutting their concerns,
naysayers are again employing
the "thorny questions" strategy.
Georgia Senator Saxby
Chambliss, a Republican, said at
the February 2 hearings that
military life restricts many
behaviors, including “alcohol
use, adultery, fraternization, and
body art.” He asked, “If we
change this rule of ‘don’t Ask,
don't Tell,’ what are we going to
do with these other issues?”
Another of the questioners’
favorite fear-mongering
strategies is tying the repeal of
DADT to the contentious issue
of gay marriage. A worry tract
penned by a retired colonel on a
military news website asked,
“Will gay couples be afforded
all the rights and privileges of
married couples when assigned
to states where gay marriages
are recognized?" But we already
know the answer: The Defense
of Marriage Act prevents the
federal government, including
the military, from recognizing
any same-sex marriages
performed in those few states
that allow them. Indeed, there is
little prospect that the military
will grant special privileges to
gay couples--much less lift the
ban on full-sleeve tattoos.
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N.Y.'s Paterson Declares He'll Govern to End of Term

(Newsmax - Politics) she wasn't home; and finally contacted the woman who was a decision." compromises to keep the state
Submitted at 3/1/2010 11:41:42 PM when she told officers that victim," he said. "If this For his part, Paterson was solvent. That's how elected
Johnson had been served with a investigation turns out the way resolute Monday. officials are going to be judged
As New York Gov. David restraining order. many suspect, then obviously "I already have the authority," in November."
Paterson tried to reassert his Calls to Johnson's and Booker's his resignation is inevitable. ... Paterson said. "I'm the Paterson said abandoning his
authority to govern for the lawyers were not returned. Maybe it's in the best interests governor." campaign frees him to govern
remainder of his term, an Paterson said Friday that he of the state to cut bait now." When asked whether his and address a deficit of more
i n v e s t i g a t i o n o f h i s ended his campaign for a full Other top Democrats watching resignation was off the table, than $8 billion in the upcoming
administration stormed ahead, term because the scandal was developments are starting to Paterson said, "I would think it's state budget.
making even the governor's long too great a distraction from his question whether Paterson will off the table. I don't even know "I can make decisions and I
-term friends wonder whether mission to pull the state's be able to serve the less than a why it's on the table." won't have to hear a robotic
his time in office might end finances out of crisis. year left in his term. He also said, "There are plenty response from the Legislature
much sooner. One of the governor's longtime "My greatest fear is the next of governors who in their last that 'he's doing this for politics,
"I have the authority to govern," friends, Democratic Sen. Bill shoe will drop, and the situation year in office, who are term- he's doing this to get his poll
Paterson declared Monday in his Perkins, said Monday that if further deteriorates both in limited governors ... who have numbers up, he's running
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whether Paterson and members "My position is, normally, let the Assembly. governor. in a prostitution scandal.
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illegally contacted a woman said Perkins, who represents Paterson's continued role in time speculating about it, Associated Press writers Ula
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The Republican Civil War

Ed Kilgore (The New Republic for expressing insufficiently 9/11 attacks. Still, it’s not clear working in Washington as a Erick Erickson of Red State, and
- All Feed) ferocious conservative views. Perry will clear 50 percent. An lobbyist for banks, equity firms, the Club for Growth, the big
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:00:00 PM Below is your guide to this expensive and potentially and even foreign governments bully of economic conservatism,
year's most important divisive runoff would weaken ( h i s f i r m has attacked Newt Gingrich for
A l l a c r o s s t h e c o u n t r y , ideologically-freighted GOP him against the Democratic represented—yikes—Yemen). speaking on his behalf.
Republicans are fantasizing p r i m a r i e s a n d t h e i r candidate, Houston Mayor Bill With the vote coming so soon, Bennett's first test will come on
about a gigantic electoral tide c o n s e q u e n c e s . C o n f i n i n g White, who looks quite hard-core conservatives May 8, when delegates to Utah's
that will sweep out deeply ourselves just to statewide races, competitive in early polling. probably won’t have time to state GOP convention will vote
e n t r e n c h e d D e m o c r a t i c let's take them in chronological INDIANA, MAY 4: In the unite behind an alternative; on a Senate nominee. If he fails
incumbents this November. In order: Hoosier State, right-wingers are some favor Tea Party-oriented to get 60 percent, he’ll be
their telling, this deep-red surge TEXAS, MARCH 2: Today's flaying each other. Former state senator Marlin Stutzman, pushed into a June 22 primary.
will be so forceful as to dislodge showdown is in Texas, where Senator Dan Coats, a relatively while others are sticking with a Bennett faces three potentially
even legislators who don’t look “establishment” Republican conservative figure with strong old-timey right-wing warhorse, credible right-wing challengers,
vulnerable now, securing GOP Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is “establishment” support, faces former Representative John but the “comer” seems to be
control of both houses of c h a l l e n g i n g c o n s e r v a t i v e three even more conservative Hostetler. But if they do, and Mike Lee, a former law clerk to
Congress. incumbent Governor Rick Perry. rivals in the race to succeed Coats loses, it will probably Justice Samuel Alito, who has
But could this scenario really Perry, who won only 39 percent Evan Bayh. Coats is a longtime spur a headlong national panic been endorsed by Dick Armey’s
come to pass? That will depend, of the vote in a four-candidate favorite of religious among “establishment” powerful FreedomWorks
i n p a r t , o n w h a t t y p e o f race in 2006, spent much of the conservatives and an early Republicans, even well- organization. Since this is Utah,
Republican Party the Democrats last year cozying up to Tea member of the evangelical credentialed conservatives who there is no Democrat in sight
are running against in the fall. Party activists and occasionally conservative network which haven’t quite joined the tea who is strong enough to exploit
Hence the importance of this going over the brink into talk of author Jeff Sharlet dubs "The partiers. Indiana Democrats such a right-wing "purge."
year's Republican civil war. In a secession. He seemed to have Family." He's secured early have managed to recruit a strong Bennett's defeat would only
string of GOP primary elections the race against the Washington- endorsements from D.C.-based Senate nominee in Congressman make the Republican Party more
stretching from now until tainted Hutchinson well in hand, conservative leaders Mike Pence Brad Ellsworth, who might hold conservative, and provide
S e p t e m b e r , t h e f u t u r e until a third GOP candidate, and James Bopp (an RNC onto Bayh’s Senate seat. another object lesson to any
ideological composition of the libertarian/Tea Party favorite member who authored both the UTAH, MAY 8: Utah Senator GOP-er thinking about
elephant party hangs in the Debra Medina, started to surge “ Socialist Democrat Party” and Bob Bennett, the bipartisan cosponsoring major legislation
b a l a n c e . M a n y o f t h e s e in the polls early this year. “ litmus test” resolutions). But dealmaker, is in trouble. He with a Democrat.
primaries pit self-consciously Medina's candidacy once his Beltway support has created voted for TARP, he has been a Five Filters featured article:
hard-core conservatives, often threatened to knock Perry into a a backlash in Indiana, and some high-visibility user of earmarks, Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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“ e s t a b l i s h m e n t ” But then Medina went on the Bill and the assault-weapons with Democratic Senator Ron
candidates—some who are G l e n n B e c k P r o g r a m a n d ban. Coats is also smarting from Wyden. So right-wingers want
incumbents, and some who are expressed openness to the revelations that he’s been his head. Bennett's defeat has
simply vulnerable to being possibility that the federal registered to vote in Virginia become an obsession of
labeled “RINOs” or “squishes” government was involved in the since leaving the Senate, and influential conservative blogger
40 Politics/ Fashion/ E-reader News Edition

Roberts versus Roberts

Jeffrey Rosen (The New Marshall, had done. Roberts moment of financial crisis when Roberts might not be as 2007, referring to his angry
Republic - All Feed) spoke about the need for justices the influence of money in conciliatory as he promised dissent from Roberts’s 5-4
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:00:00 PM to show humility when dealing politics--Louis Brandeis called it came during his second term, decision striking down
with the First Amendment, “our financial oligarchy”--is the which ended in 2007. During his affirmative action in public
Last month, the Supreme Court adding that, unlike professors most pressing question of the first term, which his colleagues school assignments.
handed down its most polarizing writing law review articles, day. The result was a ruling so treated as something of a That same summer, I asked
decision since Bush v. Gore. judges should think more about inflammatory that the president honeymoon, the Court had Justice John Paul Stevens
The 5-4 ruling in Citizens their institutional role. “Yes, (appropriately) criticized it decided just 13 percent of cases whether Roberts would succeed
United v. Federal Election you may have another great idea during his State of the Union by a 5-4 margin. But, in the next in his goal of achieving narrow,
Commission called into question about how to look at the First address. term, that percentage soared to unanimous opinions. “I don’t
decades of federal campaign Amendment,” he said, “but, if What all this says about the 33 percent. (It would fluctuate think so,” he replied. “I just
finance law and Supreme Court you don’t need to share it to future of the Roberts Court is up and down a bit over the next think it takes nine people to do
precedents by finding that decide this case, then why are not encouraging. For the past two years.) What’s more, the that. I think maybe the first few
c o r p o r a t i o n s h a v e a F i r s t you doing it? And what are the few years, I’ve been giving 2007 term ended with unusually months we all leaned over
Amendment right to spend as consequences of that going to Roberts the benefit of the doubt, personal invective, as both backward to try to avoid writing
much money as they want on be?” hoping that he meant it when he liberal and conservative separately.” In other words,
election campaigns, as long as Since then, Roberts has talked about the importance of colleagues expressed frustration once his first term ended,
t h e y d o n ’ t c o n s u l t t h e presided over some narrow, putting the bipartisan legitimacy with Roberts. That year, during Roberts faced a choice: In cases
candidates. It was precisely the u n a n i m o u s ( o r n e a r l y of the Court above his own the Court’s second encounter he cared intensely about, he
k i n d o f d i v i s i v e a n d unanimous) rulings and some ideological agenda. But, while with the McCain-Feingold could compromise his principles
unnecessarily sweeping opinion bitterly divisive ones. And so, Roberts talked persuasively campaign finance law (which it to reach common ground or he
that Chief Justice John Roberts it’s been hard to tell how about conciliation, it now would gut in Citizens United), could stick to his guns and
had once pledged to avoid. seriously he is taking his pledge appears that he is unwilling to Antonin Scalia accused Roberts infuriate his opponents, who
In 2006, at the end of his first to lead the Court toward less cede an inch to liberals in the of “faux judicial restraint,” for would feel they had been played
term on the Court, Roberts told polarizing decisions. Then came most polarizing cases. If Roberts chipping away at restrictions on for dupes. On virtually all of the
me and others that he was Citizens United, by far the continues this approach, the corporate speech without most divisive constitutional
concerned that his colleagues, in clearest test of Roberts’s vision. Supreme Court may find itself overturning them cleanly. topics, from affirmative action
issuing 5-4 opinions divided There were any number of ways on a collision course with the Meanwhile, the liberal justices to partial-birth abortion, Roberts
along predictable lines, were he could have persuaded his Obama administration-- seemed angry that Roberts was stuck to his guns.
acting more like law professors colleagues to rule narrowly; but precipitating the first full- refusing to budge from rigid Five Filters featured article:
than members of a collegial Roberts rejected these options. throttle confrontation between positions in divisive cases. “Of Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
court. His goal, he said, was to He deputized Anthony Kennedy an economically progressive course, I got slightly exercised, PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
persuade his fellow justices to t o w r i t e o n e o f h i s president and a narrow majority and the way I show that is I Term Extraction.
c o n v e r g e a r o u n d n a r r o w , characteristically grandiose of conservative judicial activists write seventy-seven-page
unanimous opinions, as his decisions, challenging the since the New Deal. opinions,” Justice Stephen
greatest predecessor, John president and Congress at a The first indications that Breyer told me in the summer of

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PENCILS
Candidates Make Last Sweep Before Texas continued from page 37

When the answers are so clear,

Primary anyone still asking “thorny
questions” is willfully ignoring
(Newsmax - Politics) Washington message, Hutchison state government — with year, as measured in the 15 most evidence--either because he
Submitted at 3/1/2010 10:45:23 AM told voters at a Houston George W. Bush leading the populated counties by the Texas doesn't want to believe it, or
shopping mall that she was the way — in the 1990s. Secretary of State's Office. because he personally can't
With the clock ticking in a "real conservative." She said she White, who's been airing TV Agency spokesman Randall stand the ideas of gays in the
rough Republican primary, Gov. had fought in Washington for ads too, greeted lunchtime Dillard said it was difficult to military. Obama's top military
Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Texas and against President diners at a Mexican restaurant in say if that would signal a higher leaders have asked for more
Hutchison swept through the Barack Obama's stimulus and San Antonio on Monday. He -than-usual election turnout time to research repealing
urban areas of Texas on Monday health care proposals. said he grew up in San Antonio overall. DADT. But time won't reveal
s e e k i n g v o t e s i n t h e i r "Tomorrow's my big day," she and hopes to be seen as a A total of 491,116 early votes anything new--it will only
g u b e r n a t o r i a l s h o w d o w n . told people munching on their hometown candidate. He were cast in the 15 most threaten to derail the repeal of a
GOP activist Debra Medina, a lunches in the food court as she acknowledged that much of the populated counties, or 6 percent d i s c r i m i n a t o r y p o l i c y o u r
favorite of many tea party handed out her card and urged attention has been on the of the registered voters in those country, and military, should not
voters, is also in Tuesday's them to vote. She said she Republican fight, but he said counties. In 2006, when there tolerate.
contest — a race that could would institute state ethics that hasn't been a disadvantage was last a governor's race, early It’s not time for more study; it's
result in a runoff if no one wins reforms and combat the 30 for him. voting in the 15 most populated time to just do it.
a majority. Perry wants an percent dropout rate. "I get to learn what Texans are counties totaled 251,432, or 3 Nathaniel Frank is a senior
unprecedented third full term; Among Democrats, ex-Houston thinking, while the career percent of their registered research fellow at the Palm
Hutchison argues that he's trying Mayor Bill White is the front- politicians are just worried voters. Center at University of
to stay too long; and Medina runner looking to defeat wealthy about staying in office," White This year 62 percent of early California, Santa Barbara, and
says she's the best alternative to Houston hair-care magnate said. ballots cast in those high- author of Unfriendly Fire: How
the establishment candidates. Farouk Shami, a political novice A multitude of other state and population centers were in the the Gay Ban Undermines the
Perry visited Harris County who put up large sums of his congressional offices are on Republican primary. Military and Weakens America.
Republican Party headquarters own money to run. Tuesday's ballot. —— For more TNR, become a fan
on Monday and told supporters Houston, Dallas and San Some of the more competitive Associated Press writers Juan on Facebook and follow us on
packed into a small room to get Antonio were hot spots on the down-ballot races are between Lozano and Ramit Plushnick- Twitter.
themselves and their friends to campaign trail for the major Democrats, such as the one Masti in Houston and Michelle Five Filters featured article:
the polls Tuesday and help him candidates Monday. Hutchison between comedian and author R o b e r t s i n S a n A n t o n i o Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
"get this behind us." also ventured into East Texas, Kinky Friedman and cattle contributed to this report. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
"A resounding victory tomorrow visiting Tyler. Perry had to rancher Hank Gilbert in the race © C o p y r i g h t 2 0 1 0 T h e Term Extraction.
is going to be about Texas. It's cancel one stop in Beaumont for the agriculture commissioner Associated Press. All rights
going to be continuing to send a because of bad weather, but nomination. And there are reserved. This material may not
message to folks all around this called in to the scheduled rally heated Republican races for the be published, broadcast,
country that Texas is the land of there so he could speak to State Board of Education, where rewritten or redistributed.
opportunity," he said, praising voters. some GOP candidates are trying Five Filters featured article:
the state as a place of fiscal Hutchison and Perry each spent to unseat prominent Christian Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
responsibility and criticizing millions of dollars on television conservatives. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
Washington, D.C., for wasteful ads in a heavyweight race that Early voting over the past two Term Extraction.
spending. Texas hasn't seen since weeks was high compared with
Trying to combat Perry's anti- Republicans began taking over the last gubernatorial primary
42 Politics/ Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition
Hands-on review
Senate Talks Close in On Deal for Wall Street of the PocketBook
Regs 302 eReader
(Newsmax - Politics) Tennessee, could break the Still, a Fed-housed consumer Consumer advocates prefer the Tablet
logjam that has prevented a entity would fall short of House-passed financial (BestTabletReview.com)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 11:25:10 PM
bipartisan bill from emerging in Obama's initial demand for a regulation bill. They criticized a Submitted at 3/1/2010 6:54:20 PM
More than a year after Lehman the Senate. While the sources stand-alone Consumer Financial plan that Dodd floated Friday to
Brothers' collapse set off a said the Banking Committee's Protection Agency that would place the agency inside the Nate’s Ebook News has a great
f i n a n c i a l p a n i c , S e n a t e chairman, Democrat Christopher replace the consumer oversight Treasury Department because it review of the PocketBook 302
negotiators appear close to Dodd of Connecticut, was now assigned to bank regulators. would give bank regulators the eReader including a video
resolving a narrow dispute that seriously entertaining the plan, it The House-passed version right to appeal consumer walkthrough and demo.
was holding up broad legislation w a s u n c l e a r w h e t h e r t h e would create a separate agency. regulations. Shelby and Corker This new eReader offering from
to set new rules for Wall Street. committee's top Republican, The White House, eager to give also opposed it. PocketBook, also known for
At issue was whether a Sen. Richard Shelby of Dodd room to negotiate, had The consumer agency has been their 360 eReader, features a 6-
government consumer watchdog Alabama, was receptive to it. backed off its insistence on a the final obstacle in Dodd's inch EPD touchscreen with
should be free from bank Dodd would also need to stand-alone agency. On effort to get bipartisan support microSD card expansion, 2 USB
regulators to write rules that persuade fellow Democrats to Monday, White House for the bill. The legislation also ports, headphone jack,
govern everything from credit accept the compromise. spokesman Robert Gibbs said would create a council of accelerometer, WiFi and
card and overdraft fees to "Senator Dodd is keeping the agency still would have to regulators that would determine replaceable battery. It uses
payday loans and mortgages. members informed on how have "strong independent which financial institutions FBReader and Adobe Reader
After a flurry of offers and things are progressing — as he authority, an independent head, deserve special supervision Mobile which feature support
counterproposals over the past has throughout this process," an independent budget, because their size and breadth for all the typical eBook formats
three days, the Senate Banking Dodd spokeswoman Kirstin independent authority to do could pose a threat to the and also includes extras like
Committee was closing in on a Brost said. "We do not have an what it needs to do." economy. The legislation also games, dictionary, sketchpad,
d e a l t h a t w o u l d h o u s e a agreement yet. He hopes to have The banking industry has would provide a mechanism to web browser, RSS and clock.
government consumer entity a consensus bill in the coming opposed an independent agency, dismantle large failing The screen is rather reflective
inside the Federal Reserve but days." arguing that regulators should institutions, with the cost borne and murky looking, but Nate
give it autonomous power to While the political world has retain authority over consumer by their banking peers. says all in all he’s pretty happy
write regulations, three people focused on attempts to revive protections. © Copyright 2010 The with the PocketBook 302. The
familiar with the talks told the health care legislation, tougher If the latest Senate plan were to Associated Press. All rights 302 comes in white and black
Associated Press Monday night. Wall Street regulations could hold, it would represent a reserved. This material may not and starts at $339.99.
The sources spoke on the end up being this year's biggest remarkable turnaround for the be published, broadcast, PocketBook is currently taking
condition on anonymity because legislative accomplishment. The Fed, which has been criticized rewritten or redistributed. preorders that will begin
they were not authorized to House passed its version of the for failing to adequately protect Five Filters featured article: shipping this month on their
discuss the evolving talks bill in December. And President consumers as part of its Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: website. Make sure to read the
publicly. Barack Obama has made new regulation of state-chartered PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, first part of Nate’s review here.
T h e i d e a , p r o p o s e d b y regulations a priority in his banks and bank holding Term Extraction. Source: Nate’s Ebook News
Republican Sen. Bob Corker of response to the recession. companies. Five Filters featured article:
Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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E-reader News Edition Politics/ Gadgets/ 43

The 77 Percent Effect

(AEI.Org: Articles) shift is already affecting the numbers. It turns out we can shortfall, put together a proposal
Submitted at 3/1/2010 3:00:00 PM thinking of state governments, figure out almost everything we that seeks $123 million. Then
as evidenced by their RTT need to know about how much there are the big states, which,
Cynics have argued that the applications. RTT funding a state asked for if bleeding cash, wildly
Department of Education's The administration has not been we look at only two things, disregarded the Department of
"Race to the Top" (RTT) shy about its claims on this neither of them related to the Education's guidelines for
program has distracted attention count. It has celebrated its self- state's RTT application. The budget requests. California,
f r o m t h e n e e d t o a d d r e s s proclaimed effort to "take on first is state student enrollment, eyeballing a staggering shortfall Accordion Table
unsustainable state budgets. b u s i n e s s a s u s u a l " a n d and the second is the size of a in the tens of billions, asked for
Such cynicism has been deemed revolutionize the shape of state's reported 2010 budget $1 billion. New York, wrestling Scoffs at Drawers
u n f a s h i o n a b l e b y O b a m a - federal education funding. The
administration allies, cash- president has declared it his aim
shortfall. Those two figures
allow us to predict with 77
with a shortfall of more than
$15 billion, asked for $831
[Design]
starved state and local officials that "instead of funding the percent accuracy how much million. Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
k e e n t o s t a y i n t h e status quo, we only invest in money a given state requested in These results should lead us to Submitted at 3/2/2010 9:40:00 AM
administration's good graces, reform." its RTT application. question what all the hefty
and editorial writers eager to say As a longtime advocate of The simple correlation between consultant fees and late-night I can't say it's any more
nice things about our earnest using federal education dollars student enrollment and the size grant-writing really amounted practical than existing kitchen
education secretary, Arne to support state and local of the RTT request was an eye- to. Moving forward, the Obama countertops, but the Accordion
Duncan. The Kumbaya chorus reformers and not just subsidize popping .83 (a 1.0 would mean administration's claims about Table concept would certainly
has even been swelled by the status quo, I have been eager the numbers marched in perfect the impact of RTT and the make an impressive centerpiece
conservative voices, including to verify these happy reports. lockstep). This suggests that, intentions of winning states to your cooking space.
those of David Brooks and the Have states indeed ditched the whatever the ins and outs of ought to be met with sensible Instead of being bolted to the
Wall Street Journal editorial usual calculations based on their actual proposed reforms, scrutiny. floor, the Accordion Table is fit
page. bodies and budgetary health and states' requests were largely a Frederick M. Hess is a resident with wheels (or something that
M u c h o f t h i s p r o - R T T begun letting reform policies product of headcounts. Even scholar and director of can scrape against your
enthusiasm has been driven by d e t e r m i n e t h e i r f u n d i n g more interesting, the correlation Education Policy Studies at flooring), allowing you to pull
the fact that the program has (in requests? After gorging on $100 between the 2010 budget AEI. and rotate the tabletop to reveal
theory) changed the way the b i l l i o n i n f o r m u l a - d r i v e n shortfall and the (seemingly P h o t o C r e d i t : hidden compartments at the
federal government and the stimulus aid last year--aid that unrelated) RTT request was a iStockphoto/RonTech2000 seams.
states do business. We are yielded no reform but aimed cool .63. Five Filters featured article: As the design dictates, these
shifting from a model driven by expressly to subsidize the status Missouri, looking at a $770 Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: compartments can be slid out
aid formulas toward one focused quo--did states succeed at million budget shortfall, PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, easily for cleaning or
o n t r a n s f o r m a t i o n a n d crafting reform-centric budgets? happened to request $743 Term Extraction. replacement. And you still get
performance--or so I've been Well, my colleague Daniel million. Nebraska, trying to some drawer space at each end
told. I've been assured that this Lautzenheiser and I ran some make up a $150 million of the table.
Yes, it's a bit design for designs
sake. But come on—admit
it—the thing looks pretty cool,
even if its convenience is a bit
of an illusion. [ Yanko Design]
44 Politics/ E-reader News Edition
VENICE
Voters Finally Get a Say in Rough continued from page 36

powered some of the most missing figure, apparently the

Texas Primary exciting exhibitions at the
Blanton, exhibitions in which
Archangel Michael, a sword in
his right hand, a scale for
(Newsmax - Politics) unprecedented third full four- stimulus package. the best art historical weighing souls in his left, his
Submitted at 3/1/2010 11:28:26 PM year term. Hutchison argues he's White, meanwhile, brushes scholarship, closely linked to the feet firmly planted on the
trying to stay too long and has aside suggestions that backlash academic values of the sprawling and defeated figure of
Voters will finally get their g r o w n a r r o g a n t i n o f f i c e . against Obama and the university, flows seamlessly into Satan. But what that figure of
chance Tuesday to weigh in on Medina calls herself the best Democratic-led Congress will the dazzling showmanship that Saint Michael looked like was
Texas' long, rough gubernatorial alternative to establishment destroy his chances of winning any museum needs to attract the anybody’s guess, until Xavier
primary. candidates. the governorship in the public. And many of these Salomon--a curator at the
Both Republican Gov. Rick Perry has pushed an anti- Republican-leaning state. exhibitions are supported by Dulwich in London who co-
Perry and rival Sen. Kay Bailey Washington message and talked "What you find is more and important catalogues, organized the show with
Hutchison planned a last round up Texas as having one of the more Texans call themselves contributions to culture that conservator Stephen Gritt--
of public appearances in Dallas, n a t i o n ' s b e s t e c o n o m i e s , independents," White said museum patrons ought to be remembered seeing a head of an
with Hutchison stopping at a something he says he helped Monday in San Antonio. "That's proud to leave out on the coffee angel by Veronese on a visit to
polling place and Perry, in his bring about. the heart of my strategy." table long after the show has the Blanton, and the mystery
o f f i c i a l r o l e a s g o v e r n o r , "People understand that over the The Texas Secretary of State's closed. Is “Paolo Veronese: The was solved. Art historians love
participating in a military- last seven or eight years this Office said 62 percent of early Petrobelli Altarpiece” a life- this kind of whodunit. So does
related Texas Independence Day state has had the type of proven ballots cast in the state's 15 most changing show? Of course not. the general public. All you need
celebration. executive leadership that has populated counties were in the But it is a powerful example of a are a few bankable movie stars
The two are vying for the GOP taken Texas to a very unique Republican primary. medium-sized museum building and some ecclesiastical-satanic
gubernatorial nomination along position in all the 50 states," —— on its strengths and coming up twists and you would have a
w i t h p a r t y a c t i v i s t D e b r a Perry told supporters in Houston Associated Press writers Juan with something truly substantial. Dan Brown–style Hollywood
Medina. Medina is a favorite of on Monday. Lozano and Ramit Plushnick- For decades there had been a hit.
many tea party voters and could Hutchison says she'll do things Masti in Houston and Michelle mystery as to what precisely Five Filters featured article:
pull in enough support to force a differently from Perry, including Roberts in San Antonio was at the center of the Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
runoff. lower business taxes and tackle contributed to this report. Petrobelli Altarpiece, because PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
If no one wins a majority of ethics reforms and an education © Copyright 2010 The the large fragments in London, Term Extraction.
Tuesday's vote, the top two system plagued by a 30-percent Associated Press. All rights Edinburgh, and Ottawa came
finishers will face off April 13. dropout rate. She characterizes reserved. This material may not only from the top and the left
The Republican winner will go Perry's contention that she is a be published, broadcast, and right sides of the canvas.
up against the Democratic W a s h i n g t o n i n s i d e r a s rewritten or redistributed. The conservation of figure
nominee in November. Ex- " r i d i c u l o u s . " Five Filters featured article: groups in London and Ottawa
Houston Mayor Bill White is "It's clear I've fought for Texas Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: had revealed fragments of a
favored among the Democrats m y w h o l e l i f e , " s h e s a i d PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
over Houston hair-care magnate Monday, rattling off a list of Term Extraction.
Farouk Shami and five others. stances that included fighting a
Perry, the state's longest- "takeover of our health system"
serving governor, wants an and President Barack Obama's
E-reader News Edition Politics/ Consumer Reports/ 45

The Incredibly Strange Browser That Q&A: Removing or

Stopped Living But Refused to Die lightening dark patches
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 5:56:50 PM of skin?
Internet Explorer 6 saga might
be wondering what the big deal
is. How could the life or death
making a site work in Internet
Explorer 6. I know of many
others who simply chop out rss@consumerreports.org
R e p o r t s o f t h e d e a t h o f of one browser be so critical to advanced features, enhanced (Consumer Reports)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 the future of our increasingly interactivity and slick design
(aka Satan’s Browser) may have Internet-based lives? When elements altogether, just so their Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:41:12 AM

been greatly exaggerated. compared to browsers of today, work doesn’t “break” in IE6.
Today was supposed to be a IE6 is a standards-incompliant Q&A: Removing or lightening
Why do they bother? Because
great day for the Web. As of antique. It debuted during a dark patches of skin?
nearly a decade after it shipped
March 1, 2010, Google will no dark, dark period in Web I’m a 63-year-old woman with
with Windows XP, IE6 still
longer support Microsoft’s history; In the summer of 2001, several dark brown patches of
commands a mind-blowing 20%
Internet Explorer 6 browser—a Microsoft had soundly beaten skin on my face that won’t go
market share for browsers, lightened somewhat by using a
decade-old dinosaur engineered Netscape into submission for a away. Is there some cream or
according to the most recent nonprescription bleaching cream
to navigate the Web as it existed 90% lock on the browser market lotion that can lighten or remove
statistics compiled by containing hydroquinone (Black
in the year 2000. Why would a n d w a s i n t h e u n i q u e l y them? — Name withheld,
NetMarketShare. That’s more & White Bleaching Cream,
this be cause for celebration? powerful position to decide Portland, Ore.
than double the shares of Esoterica), either alone or
Because IE6 is barely capable of which Web standards it would Some treatments may lighten
Chrome and Safari combined, together with a prescription
navigating the modern Web and ignore, which it would integrate, them but probably won’t
and just shy of Firefox’s 24% exfoliating cream such as
a total nightmare to build sites, which it would halfway adopt remove them. The most likely
piece of the pie. And that’s only azelaic acid(Azelex) or
services and applications for. cause of that darkening is
and which it would simply make Internet Explorer 6. Combined tretinoin(Renova).
But ten years after its release, up. And IE6 is the bastard child overproduction of pigment by
with its better-behaving but by Sunshine encourages the
it’s still being used by an of this hubris. It doesn’t behave skin cells—usually triggered by
no means perfect descendants, darkening, and those treatments
estimated 20% of surfers. And like any other browser on the increased levels of the hormone
IE7 and IE8, Internet Explorer can make you extra sensitive to
while Google’s move is one in market because it doesn’t estrogen during pregnancy or
as a whole owns 62% of the sunlight, so wear sunscreen
the right direction, I’m not interpret Cascading Style Sheets while taking oral contraceptives
browser market. Now, browser whenever you’re exposed to the
breaking out the whiskey and or JavaScript according to the or hormone-replacement
market share is not an exact sun.
noisemakers for IE6’s funereal universal standards set by therapy. But your doctor should
science and the numbers vary Read more about maintaining
wake quite yet. Sadly, IE6 isn’t organizations like the W3C. I’ve also rule out other possible
widely from site to site and healthy skin and get tips on
going away for good anytime heard of developers spending causes, such as an allergic
country to country, but you get preventing age spots, wrinkles,
soon. reaction to a drug, including
anywhere between 20% and the picture. and pigment changes. Subscribe
Those unfamiliar with the 50% of their time on a project certain antibiotics, antiseizure
and psychiatric drugs, and now!
diuretics; and underlying S u b s c r i b e t o
conditions such as ConsumerReports.org for expert
hyperthyroidism and certain Ratings, buying advice and
nutritional deficiencies. reliability on hundreds of
Stopping an offending drug or products. Update your feed
treating an underlying condition preferences
probably won’t cause the
patches to fade, but they may be
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12 ways to an easier colonoscopy

rss@consumerreports.org liquid, or an electrolyte- that the sedation is too light, ask
(Consumer Reports) balanced solution. Sodium for more. Or, if you are
Submitted at 3/1/2010 2:05:53 PM phosphate solutions(Visicol and especially anxious and would
OsmoPrep) may increase your rather be knocked out entirely,
1 2 w a y s t o a n e a s i e r risk of kidney damage, so ask ask your doctor beforehand if
c o l o n o s c o p y H a v i n g a your doctor to prescribe that would be wise in your case.
colonoscopy is the most p r o d u c t s t h a t c o n t a i n Also ask the doctor to provide The Asus Eee
effective way for you to be polyethylene glycol, either alone extra sedation if the procedure
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Keyboard will now be
cancer—just ask President bisacodyl(sold separately, or in than expected. released in April 2010
Obama. Yet many people dread combination as HalfLytely). near a bathroom as your system After You may feel some mild Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
the procedure, or far worse, • About a day before the test, clears out, and use wet wipes cramping or bloating and,
Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:30:11 AM
avoid it all together likely you’ll need to stop eating solid and a skin-soothing product rarely, nausea, up to a day
b e c a u s e o f t h e o v e r a l l foods and drink only clear such as Vaseline or Desitin afterward, because there may be It seems a little odd that we first
unpleasantness or the fear of not liquids, so stock up chicken or since to prevent soreness and air left in your colon. saw the Eee Keyboard at CES
knowing what to expect. But the vegetable broth, apple juice, and chafing. • Eat lightly for a few days and 2009 and it’s still not available.
alternative to skipping it can be bottled water with electrolytes. During• Try to relax before the if your discomfort is extreme or The demo that we played with at
life-threatening. A colonoscopy • Stop taking supplements with procedure by breathing deeply persists, call your doctor.• least seemed like it was nearly
can help detect the cancer early iron a week before and avoid or meditation. You may also Breathe easy and take comfort production ready. But here we
on before you have symptoms, red-colored liquids or gelatin the want to bring an mp3 player and in knowing that, unless you’re a are over a year later and now the
and prevent it by finding small day before. • Avoid drugs such headphones with you and listen high-risk candidate, you won’t Asus chairman is stating that the
growths called polyps that might as aspirin or ibuprofen(Advil to relaxing music or your need to schedule another new release date is April 2010.
turn into cancer if they are not and generic) for one week, since favorite podcast during the colonoscopy for 10 years. Like we haven’t heard that one
removed. they can cause gastrointestinal procedure. One of our staffers — Ginger Skinner We’d like to before.
So if you are 50 or older, or fall bleeding. told us her doctor held her hand hear from you. Have you had a At this point Asus better
into the high-risk category, you • The electrolyte-balanced right before the procedure and colonoscopy? What were some produce a flawless product. It’s
should start getting screened solution can be difficult to that helped her feel more at ways you or your doctor made unbelievable that there isn’t
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colonoscopy: lemon, or lime to the solution or appointment with you, and to ConsumerReports.org for expert Great Wall, but it’s a China-
Before if you can take an anti-nausea drive you home afterwards.• Ratings, buying advice and only model. Hopefully we’ll see
• Plan to take two days off drug. Another option for getting When it’s time for your test, you reliability on hundreds of the Eee Keyboard sometime this
work—the day before the test the solution down is to chill it, doctor will provide just enough products. Update your feed year. You might as well start
and the day of the test. suck on some lemon after each pain medication so that you’re preferences saving your pennies though, it’s
• F o l l o w y o u r d o c t o r ’ s glass, or get it over with and comfortable during the
not going to be cheap.
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asked to take a laxative pill or possible.• Be sure to stay home groggy afterward. If you find
E-reader News Edition
National Flood Insurance Program is New crash test ratings
caught in Senate wrangling
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Blog (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 2:31:53 PM
National Flood Insurance
Program is caught in Senate
wrangling
Will you be able to get
insurance for your flooded
basement this spring when
snows start to thaw?
At this very moment, the
National Flood Insurance
Program, the government-run
program that provides most
flood insurance for residents and
businesses nationwide, is
officially out of money. Funding
for the program ran out last
night. The House Financial
Services Committee voted to
extend the program through
March 31. But in the Senate
Banking Committee, an
extension of funding for flood
insurance and several other,
more prominent programs, was
blocked today by Sen. Jim
Bunning, R-Ky., who said they
would add to the deficit.
Here's what the Federal
Emergency Management
Agency, which oversees the
flood program, said today:
Authorization for the National
Flood Insurance Program
Acura ZDX, Hyundai
expired February 28, 2010. If
reauthorization takes place after
this date, policies that are
already in the process of being
issued or renewed will be issued
when Congress re-authorizes the
National Flood Insurance
Program. Payments for claims
on existing policies will not be
impacted; such policies will
continue uninterrupted.
In all likelihood, a bill will be
passed to extend the coverage
and make it retroactive to Feb.
28th, says John Priple, vice-
president of government affairs
for the Independent Insurance
Agents and Brokers of America.
In the intervening days,
however, you won't be able to
buy flood insurance.
Once it's available again,
however, consider getting it. As
Consumer Reports Money
Adviser outlines, flood
insurance fills in gaps not
covered by private insurance,
protecting your home and
belongings not only from
overflow of nearby bodies of
water, but from other types of
water-related damage, such as
mudslides and basement
seepage from saturated gardens
and yards. At www.
floodsmart.gov, you'll learn of
some insidious perils that only
flood insurance will cover.
FEMA estimates that a quarter
of all its flood claims come from
low- and medium-risk areas that
don't expect flooding. Premiums
for homes in those areas is
relatively inexpensive. The
agency requires a 30-day
waiting period after purchase
before the coverage will kick in.
Generally you buy it through an
insurance agent.
Priple says that FEMA has
never defaulted on claims
payments through the flood
program, and probably won't in
the future.—Tobie Stanger
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Elantra, and Toyota Sienna
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Blog (Consumer Reports) Good in the Institute’s frontal
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more on this new vehicle, see
New crash test ratings Acura our preview.
ZDX, Hyundai Elantra, and Toyota’s redesigned 2011
Toyota Sienna Sienna minivan continues to
The 2010 Hyundai Elantra has p r o v i d e e x c e l l e n t c r a s h
i m p r o v e d i t s s i d e - i m p a c t protection and earned Good
protection in the Insurance scores in the Institute’s front-
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models built after November see our preview and first drive.
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SXSW 2010 for Futurists

Jolie O'Dell (ReadWriteWeb) A Touchy History of the Future Doing it Wrong: Recently social networks and ideas. These
Submitted at 3/1/2010 8:50:35 PM "We pinch it, tap it, shake it and Possible Technology new maps reveal how society
poke it. We're so enthralled with "Like ninjas battling on stage, will change over the next twenty
A ReadWriteWeb Guide finally getting to touch our Bre Pettis and Tal Chalzin will years."
Social media? Oh, please. Some products. But there's so much volley projects demonstrations Open Science: Create,
of these sessions are so 2009. more to direct manipulation than back and forth. From guitar Collaborate, Communicate
How can you have any fun at just tapping it with our fingers! player robots to machines that "From discovering galaxies to
SXSW this year if you can't see Let's explore some progressive vomit plastic skulls, the folding proteins: how to actively
any real innovation. interaction models that go presentation will include a mix contribute to science. Science
If space shuttles, cyborgs and b e y o n d t o u c h a n d i n t o of projects they've worked on projects are harnessing open
technological singularity are movement, infrared, wearable and that have been worked on at collaboration to further
what make you bleep and bloop, computing, sound and ambient the GarageGeeks, NYCResistor discovery and exploration. As a
you're going to love these ten data to really give us an idea of 'our' Internet?" and beyond. This presentation result, citizen science is
events at SXSW Interactive what our immersive interactive Is the Brain the Ultimate will both thrill and repulse you witnessing a renaissance. The
2010. At the very least you'll get future may hold and how we Computer Interface? with the possibilities that have panel will discuss how you can
to share beer with a few cool might curate that future now." "Will we be able to jack into the recently emerged in the DIY get involved and challenges
hardware hackers, learn more And this wasn't the only session brain and upload helicopter hacker technology space." faced in making science open."
about lunar exploration or get we found exploring futuristic instructions, like in The Matrix? Museum of Digital Art With Spacehack's Ariel
involved with a crowdsourced interfaces! Check out Beyond We already have the technology S h o w c a s e Waldman.
science project. Scifi: Design For Surfaces and to control a prosthetic arm or "The Austin Museum of Digital Zero Waste: The Future of
Sponsor Big Screens, No Touching! Twitter with thoughts alone. Art presents a party featuring Green
This is part of a series of Truly Invisible Interfaces and Dishes of neurons can control a live electronic music and visual "Innovation, global warming,
ReadWriteWeb guides to SXSW T h a t G a m e F e e l s N i c e : robot. And scientists have art. Expect video projections, and green technology are all
Interactive 2010. If this guide Tomorrow's Touch Interfaces, created a working artificial interactive installations, and a pushing in the same direction:
isn't your cup of tea, be sure to too. memory chip in rats." Laptop Battle with musicians zero waste. This concept is in
c h e c k b a c k f o r m o r e How SciFi Shapes the Internet Moon 2.0: The Outer Limits of competing to outperform one practice in several cities
information soon! First things first, we look back Lunar Exploration another in a series of elimination (including Austin) and will soon
Dorkbot in the past to see how our "Space sector representatives r o u n d s . F r e e f o r S X S W be in yours. Learn about the
"Think of it as a science fair f o r w a r d - t h i n k i n g f o r b e a r s will discuss how the use of web Interactive badgeholders." current, future, and upcoming
with free beer. Ample doses of i m a g i n e d t h e f u t u r e . and mobile technologies create Here Are Lions: The needs of this movement and
electricity, tomfoolery, mayhem, "What if Rod Serling had a opportunities for participation in Cartography of the Future how technology is playing a
makers and music combine to blog? Would Alfred Hitchcock future exploration of the Moon. "A new breed of maps is vital role."
form one exquisite geek talent Tweet? These great producers The panel focuses on how X revealing breakthroughs in our Those are our SXSW
show. Sponsored by SXSW and directors brought suspense PRIZE, NASA, commercial u n d e r s t a n d i n g o f b i o l o g y , Interaction recommendations for
Interactive, the International and irony to the popular medium space companies, and others neuroscience, ecology and the futurists of all stripes. If you've
Game Developer's Association of the time; television. How did generate greater interaction and physical world. We can now got suggestions or feedback, let
of Austin, Mr. Data, Ricochet their work shape the minds of interest in Moon missions using m a p n o t j u s t p h y s i c a l us know in the comments! See
Labs and the Digital Media the young people of the time collaborative platforms and geographies, but also genomes, you in Austin, folks! Discuss
Council. " who would grow up to create social media." neural pathways, emotions,
E-reader News Edition Tech News/ 49

Censorship in China: How ReadWriteWeb China Was Closed

Down For a Month
Richard MacManus According to Wikipedia, These site closures directly quality translation of US and
(ReadWriteWeb) Internet censorship in China is affected our own company, as European media [from Yeeyan]
Submitted at 3/1/2010 5:35:47 PM "conducted under a wide variety Yeeyan is our syndication threatening."
of laws and administrative partner for ReadWriteWeb Yeeyan re-opened in January
In the West, the concept of the regulations." In particular China China. (using .org instead of .com) and
'read/write Web' is a relatively looks to censor political or Yeeyan is a community we're certainly very pleased to
e a s y o n e t o g e t b e h i n d . social content. In mid-2009 a translation website (our initial see that ReadWriteWeb China is
E v e r y b o d y c a n c o n t r i b u t e number of prominent Western review 3 years ago), which back as a result. Free the
content to the Web ('write'), as social networking sites were publishes some well-known read/write Web!
well as read it - it's a very blocked in China, including Western news sites such as The There's no shortage of rhetoric
democratic notion. Facebook and Twitter. Western Guardian, Time Magazine, the from the West about why China
However in countries where media speculated that the bans New York Times and of course should cease censorship of the
democracy doesn't prevail, the were put in place to prevent ReadWriteWeb. In early Web. Indeed Google made a
read/write Web is often subject activists from using social December, Yeeyan was forced brave move earlier this year by
to censorship rules. Indeed in networks to organize themselves to shut down its site - including threatening to pull out of China
December, ReadWriteWeb - which happened in Iran in June ReadWriteWeb China. if it continued to have to censor
China was off the air due to the of 2009, when Iranian election At the time of the closure, the search results. While there has
t e m p o r a r y c l o s u r e o f o u r protesters used Twitter to call generated content, publishers following message was posted been no resolution in the Google
syndication partners Yeeyan. In attention to their cause. Self- routinely censor political to the Yeeyan homepage by the -China case as yet, at least the
this post we look at how and censorship content. But while this may Yeeyan team: issue is being highlighted and
why that happened. Inside China, self-censorship is appease the government, it risks "Due to our errors in handling challenged by companies of
Sponsor practiced by many web upsetting the core users. This some of the articles on the Google's stature in 2010.
The Global Times recently publishers in order to prevent has been the case on Douban, a website, we went against the I hope that ReadWriteWeb's
published a special report about trouble. "Self-censorship is the popular social network in China relevant regulations; therefore participation in the March 15
censorship in China. It is an rule of survival that prevents with 33 million registered users. Yeeyan has to temporarily shut event at the Paley Center in
illuminating analysis of a popular websites from being Censorship has recently off its server, and adjust the New York City, where I will be
number of publishers who have shut down," said veteran web tightened on Douban, leading to relevant content." discussing these and other issues
been censored or who self- developer Zoe Wang in The "veteran members" protesting Ethan Zuckerman from the alongside prominent Chinese
censor themselves in order to Global Times. about the censorship of certain Berkman Center for Internet and activist Ai Weiwei and Twitter's
s u r v i v e . O n M a r c h 1 5 , However, self-censorship is photos, poetry and book Society at Harvard Law School Jack Dorsey, does its bit to help
ReadWriteWeb founder Richard difficult to do in practice - reviews. Site Closures, concluded that "at least one of encourage China to remove
MacManus will participate in a because it's not regulated by a Including RWW China the authorities that control the censorship on the Web.
special event at the Paley Center single authority and so there are The Golbal Times points to Chinese internet - which include Bookmark our special Weiwei
i n N e w Y o r k C i t y : a a lack of clear rules on what to three recent examples of sites the State Administration of webpage to track the latest buzz
conversation with Chinese artist censor. Web publishers in China closed down by authorities: Radio, Film and Television and about the March 15 event and
Ai Weiwei and Twitter co- are never sure what could get Fanfou, Yeeyan and Blogbus. the Ministry of Industry and view a video about Ai Weiwei's
founder Jack Dorsey about their site shut down. The latter two were recovered in Information Technology - found art and digital activism. Discuss
digital activism in China. On sites driven by user- January. the prospect of frequent, high-
50 Tech News/
Watch Out, iPhone Devs: One-Man Android App Nets $13K
Monthly
Jolie O'Dell (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 6:55:27 PM
To all those companies and
developers focused exclusively
on iPhone apps: Watch your
back. The Android platform is
catching up, and none too
slowly.
As Android's growth continues
to explode since the release of
the Droid, only the most foolish
of app shops are not planning to
expand beyond Apple's walled
garden. One developer, in fact,
wrote that his app, which was
showing modest, double-digit
daily sales late last year, now
reports that his app is making
$13,000 a month.
When that kind of opportunity
exists for a single app, why
would developers put all their
eggs in one basket, a.k.a. the
"Jesus phone"?
Sponsor
A few weeks ago, we told you,
"As of December 2009[...] 4
percent of all smartphone
owners now use a phone
running some version of the
Android OS. That's an increase
of 200 percent since the
previous survey released in
September.
"Respondents were also asked
about their plans to purchase a
smartphone in the future.
Among those who planned to
purchase within the next 90
days, 21 percent said they would
now choose Android."
It's this growth that helped fuel
the success of Eddie Kim's app,
Car Locator.
In a blog post today, the
developer revealed that his
Android app "started as a little
side-project while I was
vacationing with my family,
turned into a few extra bucks for
lunch money every day[...] has
continued its upward trend and
is now beyond my wildest
fantasy of what could have been
possible. "
Car Locator is a pretty simple
application: Users save their
location when they park their
cars, and the app navigates them
back to their cars later. The app
was available in free and paid
versions with varying feature
sets. The paid version originally
sold for $1.99, and the price was
later increased to $3.99. Kim
has done no marketing for the
app, but it did win third place in
Google's Android Developer
Challenge 2.
E-reader News Edition
the free app has been
downloaded 70,000 times, with
paid app sales at about 10
percent of that figure.
"The application was netting an
average of about $80-$100/day,
until it became a featured app on
the Marketplace. Since then,
sales have been phenomenal,
netting an average of $435/day,
with a one day record of $772
on Valentine's Day. Too bad I
didn't have a Valentine's date
this year - we would've gone
somewhere real special!" (Catch
that, ladies?)
Kim also stands by the Android
platform, saying, "Some may be
quick to point out that a featured
Android application is only able
to net $400/day, while top
iPhone apps make thousands[...]
However, I still think that
Android is only a fraction of
When Motorola's Droid was what it will eventually become.
released, Kim saw his first Each release of a new Android
major spike in sales: handset gets me excited, as it
"In the first 2 months, the app means a wider reach for the
saw sales of about $5-6/day. Marketplace."
Nothing too fancy," he wrote. Folks, if you've been longing
"But starting November 7, for a much-hyped app to make
there's been a significant uptick its way to the Android Market,
in sales, peaking on November forward this article to the
9, where the app saw $44 in developers and marketers in
sales. Sales have since settled to charge. There's money to be
about $20/day, but it's probably made there, and the userbase is
too early to tell if this will hold." only getting bigger. Discuss
Little did Kim realize that his
sales had just begun. To date,
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Weekly Poll: What is the Top Threat Apple Goes After HTC
to Cloud Computing?
Alex Williams
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 5:30:16 PM
The first peek at Apple's new
In Lawsuit Over 20
iPhone Patents Top reason: To give Apple the
ability to deliver its own
content, followed by the belief
Erick Schonfeld (CrunchGear)
that Apple will make iTunes an
online application. Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:56:00 AM

data center stoked much of the In our post, several people

interest in our poll last week.
We asked: "Why is Apple
building a massive, $1 billion
data center?" A total of 1,456
people responded.
This week is the RSA
Conference, the largest security
conference in the world. A
major topic for discussion will
focus on cloud computing
security.
Sponsor
In anticipation of RSA, the
Cloud Security Alliance has
listed the top security threats to
cloud computing. What do you
commented with their own
speculations:
Tim Jones:"Why is Apple
think?
building a massive, $1 billion
Take Our Poll surveys
data center? Because it's playing
class="alignright"
catch-up to Google, Amazon,
Last Week's Poll: Why Is
etc. No way anyone would trust
Apple Building a Massive, $1
Steve Jobs to store their stuff
Billion Data Center
with him when he'd likely wake-
Last week's poll reflected the
up one day and decide to erase
deep interest people have in
all the words that begin with the
Apple's data center. Of the
letter H in the data center,
1,456 people who responded, 53
because he felt he didn't like
percent of respondents agreed
words that begin with the letter
that there are several reasons for
H that day." Discuss
Apple's massive data center.
Apple is using its strong patent
portfolio to fight iPhone
competitors in court. Its latest
target is HTC. Apple has filed a
patent infringement lawsuit
against the cell phone
manufacturer. The suit involves
“20 Apple patents related to the
iPhone’s user interface,
We’ve decided to do something
underlying architecture and
about it. We think competition
hardware.” Steve Jobs is quoted
is healthy, but competitors
in a press release saying: “We
should create their own original
can sit by and watch competitors
technology, not steal ours.”
steal our patented inventions, or
we can do something about it.

HootSuite Mobile Gets Ads with 140 Proof

Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 7:19:00 AM
While the blogosphere has been
buzzing over how and when
Twitter will finally roll out the
full details of its anticipated ad
platform, 140 Proof has put
together an advertising platform
for the microblog service of its
own. Today, it announced that it
will integrate targeted
advertising for HootSuite on
both Android and iPhone.
HootSuite is launching an
Android version of its Twitter
client today, along with a new
version for the iPhone, both of
which will have ads by 140
Proof.
Sponsor
While this certainly may not be
the most exciting news around
to Twitter users (has anyone
ever said "Boy, this would be
great, if only it had some
advertising!"), companies
looking to reach Twitter's
userbase have a way for
A big difference here, however,
is that the expected Twitter ad
platform would only appear in
targeting their ads. searches. The 140 Proof ad
From what we heard last week platform, on the other hand, is
about Twitter's expected ad highly targeted, focusing on a
platform, 140 Proof takes a number of features, such as
similar approach. According to "keywords in tweets, followers, TheFilter Recommends
the company's press release, as well as device, location and Music, Movies, and Web
"the ads behave just like tweets: p l a t f o r m " , a c c o r d i n g t o -Based Video [Media]
each ad must have a real tweet TechCrunch. The ads will show
Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
associated with it so users can up directly in the user's tweet
reply, and if desired, retweet the stream, but will be easily Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:30:00 AM
ad." identifiable. Discuss
THEFILTER page 52
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THEFILTER
continued from page 51
Four years ago we
recommended TheFilter as a
way to sort through your iTunes
music and automatically build
playlists. You can still get
TheFilter as an iTunes plugin
but it's also a web-based
suggestion engine for media of
all sorts.
Just like before, if you're in
Windows, you can install a
plugin for iTunes—Windows
Media Player and Winamp too.
Doing so allows you to not only
sort and generate playlists in the
respective media players but
also beam your music habits
into TheFilter's main site. Even
Make 17 Meals from One Chicken [Cooking]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:00:00 AM
Food blog Cheap, Healthy,
Good is all about stretch food
frugality very, very far, while
keeping the meals tasty and
leftover-friendly. An older post
illustrates how one roast chicken
can make 17 meals for a total of
$26.
Blogger and serious home
economist Kristen Swensson
bought a 7-pound Purdue roaster
chicken for $6.92, less than $20
worth of other supplies over a
week, and gave herself some
rules for cooking dinners and
lunches. Swensson went for no
repeats or very similar dishes on
the menu, used as many pantry
if you opt to use TheFilter in a
web-based format only you can
quickly build a database by
importing your Flixster and
Last.fm information or start
from scratch by entering in your
favorite bands, movies, and
browsing web-based videos and
ranking them on TheFilter.
You can rank everything from
the whole song or movie to the
individual people encompassed
by it—musicians, actors,
directors, and so on. The view
you see above, of the giant
heart, is the "taste sphere" that
shows you where the things you
rank in relation to your taste.
goods as possible, and tried to
add as little fat as possible to the
plates. How'd it turn out?
Victory, for the most part. I
ended up cooking five distinct,
delicious, largely healthy
dinners with PLENTY of
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TheFilter is free and requires a Windows Brings the
basic signup. The web-based Climbing at 14,000 feet?
service is available to everyone, Speed [Downloads] Sailing in Sydney Harbour?
but the plugins for iTunes, Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Sitting in the emergency room at
WMP, and Winamp are 3 a.m.? You never know when
Windows only. Have a favorite Submitted at 3/2/2010 4:40:00 AM access to your home or work
suggestion service? Let's hear Windows: As expected, Opera computer will come in handy…
about it in the comments. made version 10.5 of its browser Some people say the iPhone
TheFilter[via MakeUseOf] official this morning, calling it isn’t for business. But in fact, a
recent survey of 400 LogMeIn
OPERA page 53 Ignition for iPhone users found
that more than 65 percent of
them are accessing their work
computer with their iPhone.
Perhaps even more amazing, 57
consumed each night and ate for percent said they now ditch their
lunch the next day, that $25.86 laptop in favor of carrying their
made 17 full meals, which Apple device (and the LogMeIn
works out to $1.52 each. That's app) at least half the time.
less than a cup of Starbucks The survey results are revealed
coffee, so … aces. in a new e-book now available
You can grab all of Swensson's from LogMeIn entitled, “Hey,
recipes, her full shopping list, that guy is running his laptop
and read her notes on every from his iPhone.”
recipe at the post, helpfully dug The e-book also shares true-life
up by Boing Boing. If you've stories of iPhone users, from
found your own miracle budget- doctors to mountain climbers,
stretching food, tell us how you who successfully used their
leftovers. And miracle of work it in the comments. 1 iPhone and the LogMeIn app to
miracles, there were no duds in Chicken, 17 Healthy Meals, $26 stay connected and productive
the group. (Thanks, online B u c k s , N o M a y o [ C h e a p , — no matter where work or life
reviewers!) Healthy, Good Boing Boing] takes them. Download it today!
However, I did go $0.86 over
budget. I'm okay with that,
though. Between what we
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"the fastest browser on Earth"
and also touting its Windows 7
integration, HTML5 video
support, better private browsing,
and more.
In terms of HTML5 and video,
Opera has gone the way of
Firefox, supporting native, Flash
-free streams of the Ogg Theora
format, but not H.264. Apple's
Safari supports only H.264, and
Google Chrome supports both.
Opera has also added in
extensive Windows 7 graphical
look and taskbar support, as
we've detailed, and also added
the seemingly requisite "private
Simple Scan Makes Linux Scanning Beginner-
Friendly [Downloads]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 7:00:00 AM
Linux: The default image
scanning app on most Linux
destkops, XSane, has many,
many buttons and sliders. When
all you want to do is make a
PDF from text, or scan a picture,
Simple Scan is there for you.
Robert Ancell, a developer for
Ubuntu backer Canonical, is
developing Simple Scan to drop
into the next release of Ubuntu,
Lucid Lynx, due out in April.
browsing" option.
What the Opera developers are
really touting, though, is Opera's
JavaScript and page loading
speeds—and we don't blame
them. Here are two quick
reminders of how Opera's 10.5
pre-alpha (labeled erroneously
as a beta in these charts) fared
against its competition. First in
JavaScript:
And in "cold" (right off a
reboot) and "warm" (having
previously opened) start-ups:
Opera's certainly managed to
get everyone's attention with
their new Carakan engine, that's
Although his software isn't
officially at a finished, 1.0 stage,
it's already decent enough to be
an attractive install for Ubuntu
users. Load up your scanner,
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for sure. In our own tests, Opera
10.5 feels very snappy and
lightweight when moving about
the web, and that's without the
server-caching Turbo is turned
on.
Opera 10.5 is a free download
for Windows systems only; Mac
and Linux users should expect
'Two and a Half
their own versions to follow Men' - 'Tinkle Like
very soon. Opera browser[via
DeepTech/CNET] A Princess' Recap
Allison Waldman (TV Squad)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 9:02:00 AM
(S07E16) Holy hoochey-mama!
Looked like the old Charlie
Harper was back by the time all
was said and done. For a while
there, it wasn't a certainty.
Charlie had all the symptoms of
a Woody Allen schlemiel
as'Two and a Half Men'
PDFs, and crop your results, but ventured into territory that
you usually don't need to. The seemed out of kilter. It was like
buttons to save, email, and print the Kubler-Ross five stages of
your results are all there, too, grief. Fortunately, acceptance
and this app just works. for Charlie was just a bender
Simple Scan is a free download away. More on that and the
for Linux systems only. Source $18,000, too, after the jump.
code is available in addition to Continue reading'Two and a
Ubuntu packages, but we're Half Men' - 'Tinkle Like A
guessing the app runs best on Princess' Recap
plug it into your system, fire up
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Simple Scan, switch between
Scan[Launchpad via Starry S h o w s , E p i s o d e R e v i e w s ,
Photo and Text, and hit the Scan
Hope] Reality-Free
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Panasonic Toughbook C1 claims world’s lightest 12.1-inch

convertible tablet crown
Doug Aamoth (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:42:09 AM

Just 3.2 pounds, folks. That’s

all. Jetsetting, globetrotting,
running after trains and then
jumping into that one open car
with all the hay in it. That could
be you. Except once you’re in
the hay car you could get on
Twitter and be like, “Just ran
alongside train and jumped in
open car filled with hay. Need a
Claritin! Blah! ROTFLOL!”
The features, please:
• Intel Core i5 CPU at 2.4GHz
(with “Turbo Boost” up to
2.93GHz)
• 12.1-inch LED-backlit multi-
touch screen at 1280×800
resolution
• “Up to ten hours of battery
life, enabled by a twin hot-
swappable battery design” – one
battery for five hours, both
batteries for ten hours
• 3.2 pounds with single
battery, 3.7 pounds with both
batteries
• Able to withstand a drop from
30 inches
• Windows 7 with XP
downgrade option
• 250GB hard drive, 2GB of
RAM (expandable to 6GB)
• Wi-Fi (b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.1,
optional Gobi networking

Initially, the screen will be

available as a “Multi-touch + PANASONIC page 55
digitizer screen allowing input via finger, gestures and electronic stylus pen” but in the
E-reader News Edition
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continued from page 54
Fall, there’ll be a “Gloved multi
-touch screen allowing input via
finger and gestures.”
Now before you get too excited,
this thing’s meant for the health
care, field service, and
education sectors and, as such,
carries a pretty gigantic starting
price tag of $2500. It’ll be
available for purchase sometime
in June of this year.
Here’s a YouTube video from
Panasonic:
And some hands-on photos that
CrunchGear’s own J. Biggs took
recently.
Full Press Release:
Panasonic Introduces the
Toughbook® C1 – World’s
Lightest 12.1” Convertible
Tablet PC
Innovative design and
exceptional performance ideal
for professionals in healthcare
and other highly mobile markets
SECAUCUS, N.J.–(
BUSINESS WIRE)–Panasonic
Computer Solutions Company,
manufacturer of durable,
reliable Panasonic Toughbook®
mobile computers, today
introduced the Panasonic
Toughbook C1, the world’s
lightest 12.1” convertible tablet
PC. The new device delivers up
to 10 hours of battery life, a 30”
(to base) drop rating, optional
Gobi2000™ mobile broadband
and a host of other features
designed to maximize return on
investment and reduce the total
cost of ownership. Powered by
the Intel® Core™ i5 520M
vPro™ processor and weighing
only 3.2 pounds (with one
battery, 3.7 lbs with two), the
Toughbook C1 offers desktop-
class performance in a
lightweight, convertible tablet
form factor that is ideal for road
warriors and mobile workers in
a variety of markets, including
healthcare, field service, sales
and education.
Innovative Design
The Toughbook C1 is one of
the first laptops to support multi
-touch and digitizers, offering
the input of a finger, gesture or
an electronic stylus pen for
handwriting recognition and
greater precision. By leveraging
Panasonic’s advanced battery
technology, the Toughbook C1
delivers up to ten hours of
battery life, enabled by a twin
hot-swappable battery design
that allows for continuous use,
pushing productivity in the field
to a new level. The Toughbook
C1 also features a shock-
mounted, flex-connect 250GB
hard drive with a quick-release
feature that allows for enhanced
data protection.
The Toughbook C1 is the first
convertible to employ a unique
triple hinge design – one set of
hinges for opening and closing
the screen and another hinge for
rotating the screen to tablet
mode. The Toughbook C1’s
triple hinge design significantly
reduces hinge failures (a
common problem with current
generation convertible tablets)
by separating the two actions
normally required of a single
hinge. Toughbook C1 also
offers a ‘hand-free’ ergonomic
strap and dome hand support
system that cradles the hand for
comfortable long term use as
well as providing a natural
keyboard tilt.
Meets Needs of Medical
Professionals
“One of the main markets for
the Toughbook® C1 is
healthcare,” said Greg
Davidson, healthcare senior
business development manager,
Panasonic Computer Solutions
Company. “We have been
working with our healthcare
customers to design a
convertible tablet that truly
addressed their needs. To date,
the market has been making do
with tablets that fail to offer the
light weight, ergonomics and
battery life needed by healthcare
professionals. We believe the
new Toughbook C1 addresses
all these issues, while offering
the additional benefits of
excellent performance and
durability.”
Desktop Performance
The Toughbook C1 is powered
by the Intel® Core™ i5-520M
vPro™ Processor (2.4 GHz with
Turbo Boost up to 2.93 GHz,
Intel® Smart Cache 3MB),
giving the device desktop
performance in a lightweight
and highly mobile form factor.
“The Toughbook C1 is an
example of a convertible tablet
PC that has been designed for a
mobile workforce,” said Erik
Reid, mobile client marketing
director, Intel Corporation.
“Intel® Core™ i5-520M vPro™
Processor technology makes the
Toughbook C1 more valuable
by helping to address remote
management and security issues.
This creates a compelling
solution for organizations that
want the most out of their
mobile employees.”
Real World Durability
In order to withstand the
demands of a highly mobile
work environment, The
Toughbook C1 has been
designed to endure drops,
bumps and spills. The
Toughbook C1 successfully
survived drops of 12” from any
angle for the unit itself and from
30” for the shock-mounted, flex-
connect hard drive.
Additionally, the Toughbook C1
survived a 30” (just over the
typical height of a desk or table)
drop to the base of the unit
while operating. The unique
Panasonic spill-resistant
keyboard design protects against
liquid spills of about 6 ounces
(200 cc), and both the lid and
base of the notebook are
designed to withstand more than
225 lbs (102 Kg) of pressure. In
addition, Panasonic’s
commitment to quality—at both
the component and finished
goods level—results in a total of
more than 500 checks and tests
during and after production.
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“An exceptional level of
engineering has gone into the
Toughbook C1,” said Kyp
Walls, director of product
management, Panasonic
Computer Solutions Company.
“The unique triple hinge design,
‘hand-free’ ergonomic strap,
twin hot-swappable battery
system and quick-release HDD
Pack exemplify our commitment
to go beyond ‘good-enough’ and
delivering products that map to
how our customers use them.
The Toughbook C1 sets the
standard for what an enterprise
convertible tablet should be.”
Embedded Wireless
Connectivity
The Toughbook® C1 offers a
variety of embedded wireless
technologies, including Wi-Fi
802.11a/b/g/n, Bluetooth® 2.1
and optional Gobi2000™
mobile broadband technology
from Qualcomm. Gobi
simplifies complex multi-carrier
wireless deployments for IT
departments and allows mobile
employees improved
connectivity options while
traveling at home or abroad. The
Toughbook C1 is also designed
so Wi-Fi, WiMAX and 3G
mobile broadband modules can
be embedded in the same unit,
while allowing exceptional
reception and flexibility for data
access on the go. The
Toughbook C1 will be certified
on the Sprint and Verizon
PANASONIC page 58
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Review of the PocketBook 360 eReader – Lean, Light,
Beautiful and Blazing Fast
Tablet
(BestTabletReview.com)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 5:47:44 AM
This post was written by Roger
Pelizzari, a semi-retired writer
and recent adopter of electronic
readers.
Ebook readers have been
arriving in ever greater tidal
waves over the past few years,
some loaded with features,
others barely able to perform as
eBook readers. This January
when I began my search, I was
looking for one feature, the
ability to read books easily,
without eye strain. I have no
desire to divide my mind with
music or the internet while
reading.
So when my ivory colored
PocketBook 360° appeared
before my eyes—lean, light, and
beautiful—I had a feeling that it
would be a perfect fit. In fact,
being the size of a CD case, and
weighing a mere 5.3 ounces
(half that of the Kindle or
Nook), it fit perfectly in my
pocket.
The 360° is the latest model
from PocketBook Global, the
Ukraine-Taiwan company with
offices in Long Island and
Kansas City. It gets its name
from the built in accelerometer
which allows for automatic
orientation of pages in portrait
or landscape mode. The text
E-reader News Edition
reflow looks like magic the first the 360° really flies. No need
time you see it and is a real for a heavy physical keyboard or
boon for lefties. the glare from a touch screen.
The device comes well The pop-up virtual keyboard
packaged and opens easily. The works with dictionaries,
detachable hard shell protective applications, working with files
cover has a beautiful swirling and creating notes. It’s also a
design and attaches to the back turbo speed searcher. Just a tap
for safe keeping, adding no bulk of the joypad and a couple
to the size, unlike most eBook clicks and your word is found
covers. It connects via USB and and highlighted. The 360°
is instantly recognized on Intel always finds your last place in a
Macs and PCs. You simply drag book, never loses bookmarks,
your files onto the icon. easily jumps to a specific page.
The 360° reads more formats MENUS
than any reader out there, The main menu offers quick
including FB2, FB2.zip, TXT, access to your two recently read
PDF, RTF, HTML, PRC, CHM, titles, plus icons to take you to
DJVU, DOC, EPUB, TCR, JPG, eBooks, News (via a Windows-
BMP, PNG, and TIFF. There is only RSS feed downloader),
also native support of Adobe favorites, photos, dictionary,
Digital Editions, which means notes, apps, calendar or settings.
you can read DRM protected Applications included are a
you can choose one of several PDFs.
EPUBs and PDFs as well as free clock, a calculator, a dictionary,
fonts or add your own, size them Pocketbook’s next version of
library books. It also supports a and games (solitaire, chess,
from tiny to elephantine, change firmware will add the ability to
wide range of languages, Latin Sudoku and SeaBattle).
the margins and line spacing, turn a page with just the flick of
and Cyrillic based and also While in a book, tapping the
and zoom in several levels. your wrist. A turn to the right
Japanese, Chinese, Korean, center of the joypad brings up a
SPEEDY NAVIGATION goes back, a turn to the left
Arabic and Hebrew. quick menu. When reading
Speed is the word for moves forward. The 360°s
EASY ON THE EYES ePUBs, the lower right hand
Pocketbook 360°. Just 10 motion sensor will act as a
Sporting a 5 E-Ink Vizplex icon brings up a settings menu
seconds after booting, you’ll see trigger for the page turns.
600×800 166dpi, with 16 for choosing almost any font
the menus. Books open in 5 The feature is already available
grayscale levels, the screen size. Though not available with
seconds. Flipping pages is as using a custom version of
looks sharp, has great contrast PDFs or DRM files, you can
fast or faster than any eBook FBReader.
and is glare free, perfect for still use the up arrow to chose
reader I’ve heard of. The refresh SEARCHING
reading books without eye from five levels of zoom.
between pages is about half a Simplicity here is a plus. With
strain. You can take it outdoors The 360°’s speed covers folder
second, twice as fast as the its large wing-shaped
and read easily in direct support too with hierarchical
Kindle or Nook, and hardly forward/back buttons that give a
sunlight.
noticeable. And that’s with nice audible click and a very REVIEW page 57
With the included FBReader,
DRM and non-DRM ePUBs and responsive directional joypad,
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REVIEW
continued from page 56

and directory structure. You
have 3 ways to view
content—with icons,
thumbnails, or in a list. Flags
next to the icons signal whether
a book is not yet read, being
read, or finished. Comparing to
the big boys, the Kindle still
lacks folder support and the
Nook has a more complicated,
split screen personality.
SLEEP, SHUT DOWN, AND
BATTERY LIFE
The Pocketbook 360° has a
sleep mode, key lock mode and
models.
WHAT I’D STILL LIKE TO
SEE
Naturally, there’s always room
for improvement. Luckily, all
three of my suggestions are
scheduled to be fixed in future
versions of firmware.
Pocketbook software engineers
regularly read forum
suggestions and respond to
them.
1.An option for starting at the
first or last entry when entering
a new module—Books, Pictures,
the crowd. It’s completely user
configurable. You can change
the functions of the all buttons,
and even modify the
FBReaders’ config file through
the main menu.
Thanks to PocketBook’s
developer kit many applications
are also available. Already
loaded are several games as well
as applications (clock and
calculator). Also available are a
language learning program and
a terminal emulator for those
who can work with Linux.
there. If you want to focus on
reading, this may just be the
one. If you need 3G and/or Wifi,
consider the upcoming
PocketBook 302, but if you just
want to read books, you’ll
appreciate the total ease of use
of the 360°.
• Small, light, easy to hold.
The Most Desired Man
• Very fast page turns. in the World, Ladies and
• User-replaceable battery. Gentlemen [Open
• ADE connectivity to buy Caption]
books or borrow from your
library Richard Lawson (Gawker)
• Sturdy protective cover. Submitted at 3/2/2010 9:38:55 AM

automatic shut off, but with
such fast boots, I just turn it off
manually when I’m done.
The battery is rated 8,000 page
turns, so if you use it 4 hours a
day without sleeping or locking
the keys, you’ll enjoy 2-3 weeks
of reading. Even with the
accelerometer activated, long
shut-off settings, and a SD card
inserted, you’ll still get over a
week of use. And best of all, the
battery is user-replaceable, so
you won’t ever need to send it in
for a pricey replacement as with
new Kindles and all Sony
etc.
2.A more elegant way to eject
the 360° from a Mac. Right
now you have to pull the plug to
stop the 360°’s icon from
reappearing. One user has
already posted a fix that works
fine using a free program called
Hidden Cleaner.
3. Older Macs with PPC
processors do not currently
recognize the 360°. You need an
Intel Mac or PC to load books.
FLEXIBLE FIRMWARE
The 360°’s firmware is another
feature that distinguishes it from
PRICE TAG
The PocketBook 360° sells for
$239.99 at the Pocketbook
w e b s i t e ,
http://www.PocketbookReader.c
om, and for $20 extra you get an
AC adapter and MicroSD card.
So that puts it at the same price
as the Kindle and the Nook, but
Pocketbook’s 2 year warranty,
gives the 360° a clear advantage
in value.
SUMMARY
The Pocketbook 360° is one of
the simplest, fastest, and most
beautiful eBook readers out
• Large page turn buttons with
left-handed compatibility.
• Excellent customer service
replies within hours rather than
weeks!
• Two year warranty – twice the
standard length
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Apple sues HTC for infringing 20 iPhone patents

Nilay Patel (Engadget) infringing 20 patents "related to CEO. "We think competition is 20 iPhone patents originally
Submitted at 3/2/2010 9:52:00 AM the iPhone's user interface, healthy, but competitors should appeared on Engadget on Tue,
underlying architecture, and create their own original 02 Mar 2010 09:52:00 EST.
Looks like Apple's going on the hardware." Steve, you have technology, not steal ours." Please see our terms for use of
warpath, kids. Just a few months something to say? Okay then. We're pulling the feeds. Permalink| Apple| Email
after Cupertino got into it with "We can sit by and watch complaint filing now, we'll let this| Comments
Nokia over phone patents, competitors steal our patented you know the exact details as
Apple's filed suit against HTC, i n v e n t i o n s , o r w e c a n d o decided to do something about soon as we learn them.
alleging that the company is something about it. We've it," said Steve Jobs, Apple's Apple sues HTC for infringing
58 Gadgets/
PANASONIC
continued from page 55
Wireless networks, allowing
workers to stay connected at all
times. Other wireless carrier
certifications will be announced
soon.
Integrated Features
To enable advanced
communication and
collaboration, the Toughbook
C1 offers integrated features,
such as an optional modem or a
webcam for mobile video
conferencing and a standard
built-in dual array microphone
for superior speech recognition.
Multiple security features are
also available, including options
for SmartCard and fingerprint
readers, to ensure sensitive data
is kept secure and private.
Panasonic Toughbook® C1:
Select Features and
Specifications
Genuine Windows 7® (with XP
downgrade option)
Intel® Core™ i5-520M vPro™
Processor (2.4 GHz with Turbo
Boost up to 2.93 GHz)
250GB shock-mounted flex-
connect hard drive with quick-
release
2GB RAM (DDR3-800),
expandable to 6GB
Choice of two 12.1” WXGA
(1280 x 800) displays with LED
backlighting
Multi-touch + digitizer screen
allowing input via finger,
gestures and electronic stylus
pen
Gloved multi-touch screen
allowing input via finger and
gestures (available Fall 2010)
Anti-glare screen treatment
6 backlit tablet buttons (5 user-
definable)
Hot-swappable twin battery
design
5 hour battery life (with one
battery); 10 hour battery life
(with two batteries)
3.2 lbs (with one battery); 3.7
lbs (with two batteries)
Optional webcam
Built-in dual array microphone
Business-rugged
30” operating drop (to base
only)
26 sides 12” drop (non-
operating)
225 lb pressurized vibration
Magnesium alloy case
Spill-resistant keyboard
(protects against 6 ounces spills)
Triple hinge design with screen
rotation lock
‘Hand-free’ ergonomic strap and
dome hand support
Embedded Connectivity
Optional integrated WWAN /
Gobi2000™ mobile broadband
(EV-DO and HSPA)
Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N
6200 802.11a/b/g/n
Bluetooth® v2.1 + EDR (class
2)
Optional Integrated Security
Features:
Fingerprint reader
SmartCard reader
11.8” (H) x 8.9” (W) x 1.2”-
1.7” (D)
Optional desktop dock with
DVD multi-drive and dual
monitor support
Optional 4-bay battery charger
Pricing and Availability
The Panasonic Toughbook®
C1 will be available worldwide
starting June 2010. In the United
States, the Toughbook C1 is
expected to be available at an
estimated street price of $2499
from authorized Panasonic
resellers and distributors.
The Toughbook C1 includes a
standard three-year limited
warranty.
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Panasonic's Multitouch
Toughbook C1 Tablet Has No
Time for This "iPad" [Tablets]
John Herrman (Gizmodo) battery options, respectively,
while the whole assemblage is
Submitted at 3/2/2010 9:30:00 AM
tied together by Windows 7, or
There was a time when the optionally, XP. The casing is,
w o r d " t a b l e t " i n v o k e d a n like every other Toughbook,
entirely different vision, of water-resistant and just short of
keyboards and hinges and bulletproof. And lastly, the
people working on stuff and, trackpad is circular, because
well, not this. The Toughbook why the hell not?
C1, Panasonic's 2000s-style Anything beyond a superficial
12.1-inch rugged convertible c o m p a r i s o n t o t h e n e w
tablet, remembers those days generation of slate-style tablets
well. would be misguided, because
That's not to say that the C1 is this is a decidedly workmanlike
overly bulky, or necessarily device. It has multitouch in the
o u t d a t e d — i t s s p e c s h e e t same way that other Windows 7
suggests the opposite, listing its tablets and notebooks have
dimensions at a surprisingly thin multitouch, which is to say, er,
1.2-1.7 inches and its weight at technically. It comes with a
a reasonable 3.2lbs, making it stylus. Under the hood, it's pure
the "world's lightest" 12.1-inch laptop. And then there's the
convertible tablet. Behind the matter of price: The Toughbook
keyboard you'll find a 2.4GHz C1 will start at $2500. Not that
Intel Core i5, 2GB (expandable) this matters, since most of the
of DDR3 RAM, a 250GB shock p e o p l e w h o u s e o n e w i l l
-resistant hard drive, and probably have it issued and
optional EV-DO or HSPA data. expensed, but still: $2500! Ship
Battery life claims fall at 5 and date falls sometime in June. [
10 hours for the single and dual Panasonic]
E-reader News Edition
Apple Sues HTC For Infringing On 20 iPhone
Patents [Apple]
Kat Hannaford (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 9:33:02 AM
Whoa, Apple just sued HTC for
infringing on 20 patents "related
to the iPhone's user interface,
underlying architecture and
hardware." The guns are out.
Steve Jobs' biting take on the
lawsuit:
"We can sit by and watch
competitors steal our patented
inventions, or we can do
something about it. We've
decided to do something about
it. We think competition is
healthy, but competitors should
create their own original
technology, not steal ours."
Sound familiar? Of course it
does, because Nokia's being
accused of the same thing, and
Apple had similar nasty
comments for Palm as well,
though they haven't led to a
lawsuit (yet).
We're digging up what exactly
HTC is in trouble over, with
Apple merely stating it's related
to the "iPhone's user interface,
underlying architecture and
hardware." However, it's worth
noting Apple won a fairly huge
multitouch patent just a couple
of weeks ago, and now they're
nailing HTC for twice as many
patent infringements as they
busted Nokia on in that
countersuit.
Apple's original set of iPhone
interface patents were actually
fairly limited when you drill
down, but we'll see pretty
shortly what, precisely, they're
suing HTC over. Which should
give us a pretty good idea of
whether or not this just the first
of many lawsuits, since HTC's
not exactly the only other
multitouch game in town.
The terse press release, in full:
Apple Sues HTC for Patent
Infringement
CUPERTINO, Calif. March 2
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ —
Apple® today filed a lawsuit
against HTC for infringing on
20 Apple patents related to the
iPhone's user interface,
underlying architecture and
hardware. The lawsuit was filed
concurrently with the U.S.
International Trade Commission
(ITC) and in U.S. District Court
in Delaware.
"We can sit by and watch
competitors steal our patented
inventions, or we can do
something about it. We've
decided to do something about
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'Chuck' - 'Chuck
Versus the Fake
Name' Recap
Allison Waldman (TV Squad)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 1:03:00 AM
(S03E08) It seems more and
more like the spy job is less and
less attractive for Chuck. Just
when things were on the verge
of getting really good for Chuck
on the personal front, there were
complications based on the past
and the job and the choices he's
been forced to make. If this is
it," said Steve Jobs, Apple's
spy life, it's no wonder James
CEO. "We think competition is
Bond drinks so much. More on
healthy, but competitors should
that and the chicken pepperoni
create their own original
after the jump.
technology, not steal ours."
Continue reading'Chuck' -
Apple reinvented the mobile
'Chuck Versus the Fake Name'
phone in 2007 with its
Recap
revolutionary iPhone®, and did
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it again in 2008 with its
Chuck, Reality-Free
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mobile applications in over 90
countries. Over 40 million
iPhones have been sold
worldwide.
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Panasonic slips Core i5 into 'world's lightest' 12.1-inch
Toughbook C1 convertible tablet
Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 9:04:00 AM
We tell ya -- all this tablet talk
sure has us feeling like it's 2003.
You know, minus all that Y2K
hangover stuff. Anywho,
Panasonic has today outed what
it's calling the planet's lightest
12.1-inch convertible tablet PC,
with the Toughbook C1 offering
the line's iconic rigidity while
boasting 10 hours of battery life,
an optional Gobi 2000 mobile
broadband module and Intel's
RedEye mini converts iPhone, iPad or iPod touch
into IR-beaming universal remote
Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 9:30:00 AM
ThinkFlood's original RedEye
was pretty swank, but
unfortunately, it was both
expensive and somewhat
convoluted. It's only been four
months since that very device
hit the scene, but it's safe to say
it's already history. Today, the
RedEye mini is setting a new
bar in the world of iPhone / iPad
/ iPod touch remotes, with a
single plug-in Infrared (IR)
adapter enabling your Apple
device to beam out a near-
limitless array of IR commands.
All that's needed is the 3.5mm
decidedly potent 2.4GHz Core
i5-520 processor. All told, the
device weighs just 3.2 pounds
with a single battery (3.7 pounds
with twins), and there's full
support for digitizers and
multitouch. Other specs include
a shock-mounted, flex-connect
250GB hard drive,
802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, up to 8GB
of DDR3 memory, a WXGA
(1,280 x 800) LED-backlit
panel, a triple hinge design and
the ability to survive a 30-inch
plummet. It's available to (quite
dongle (read: your dock
connector remains open), the
latest iPhone OS and the free
RedEye app; once you're setup,
you can then control your TV,
AV receiver, Blu-ray player and
literally) smash iPads starting
this June, though that $2,499
starting price may be somewhat
off-putting to those without
whatever else is lucky enough to
be in your home theater rack
and support IR dictation. Better
still, the app allows users to
customize the way they control
their gear, with full multitouch
copious amounts of disposable
income.
Gallery: Panasonic Toughbook
C1 convertible tablet PC
and accelerometer support
complementing the ability to
add (soft) macro buttons. Oh,
and did we mention that this
wealth of functionality will only
set you back $49? Huzzah!
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converts iPhone, iPad or iPod
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Netflix Would Very
Much Like to Know If
You Would Like an
iPhone App (Hint: YES)
[NetFlix]
matt buchanan (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 10:05:55 AM
Here's a real interesting
question from a recent Netflix
survey: "How likely would you
or someone in your household
be to instantly watch movies &
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NETFLIX 'Dancing with the Stars'
continued from page 60
Celebs Get Paired Up
TV episodes on your iPhone via profits preserved by the window
a Wi-Fi network?" system—the journey a movie with Partners
If you recall, Netflix CEO Reed takes from the multiplex to (ETonline - Breaking News)
Hastings promised that Netflix DVD to PPV to HBO to cable— Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:57:00 AM
streaming would come to the before the studios can extract
iPhone "eventually" just a few the last final drops themselves. It takes two to tango! The
months ago. While survey That disgusting 28-day window newest slew of celebrities to hit
questions can be indicative of a before you can rent a new the dance floor of ABC's
company's plans—it wouldn't be Warner Bros. movie is a primo "Dancing with the Stars" have
the first time for this kind of example. So, to get mobile been paired up with their pro
company to tip their video hand streaming rights? That's partners -- and the match-ups
via survey—I wouldn't get too probably a whole 'nother may surprise you.
excited. Not because of the tech, ballgame, and I don't expect the Reality show mom Kate
which is trivial (even studios will play any nicer. Gosselin will be dancing with
considering the jump from But we can dream, we can Tony Dovolani, who is returning
Microsoft's Silverlight hope, we can pray. Even if it is for his ninth season on the show.
technology on the desktop) but only over Wi-Fi. [ Hacking Another reality show favorite,
because of the rights. Netflix via SAI] "The Bachelor" Jake Pavelka is
Netflix has already run into
issues with studios afraid of it Frameless laptop teaming up with "Dancing" pro
cutie Chelsie Hightower.
massing too much influence, too "Baywatch" beauty Pamela
many eyeballs, squeezing the
lifeblood remaining in DVD
screens expected soon Anderson will be dancing with
the newest pro of the show
Doug Aamoth (CrunchGear) reinforced glass substrate is Damian Whitewood, while
Dodd proposes consumer Submitted at 3/2/2010 7:20:36 AM more expensive than a
conventional one (US$19-21 for
"90210" star Shannen Doherty
has been paired up with Mark
The infinity pools of the the former compared to US$12-
role for the Fed computing industry, frameless 15 for the latter in a 15.6-inch
laptop screens are expected in model), the cost of frame
Ballas. ESPN host Erin
Andrews will dance with
(Financial Times - US Consumer Financial Protection the second or third quarter of "DWTS" bad boy Maksim
homepage) materials and assembly can be Chmerkovskiy, and "The
Agency originally proposed by t h i s y e a r , a c c o r d i n g t o
reduced, the sources said.” Insider" correspondent Niecy
Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:55:38 PM the Treasury. Designed to D i g i T i m e s .
Apparently there are some Nash is hot to trot with Louis
regulate the sale of products They’ll be a little more manufacturers developing
The Federal Reserve would s u c h a s c r e d i t c a r d s a n d van Amstel. Pussycat Doll
expensive than standard laptop frameless screens without using Nicole Scherzinger is matched
receive additional consumer m o r t g a g e s , t h e C F P A
screens, but those costs are lids at all, opting to instead up with season 7 champ Derek
protection responsibilities as became one of President Barack
e x p e c t e d t o d e c l i n e a s “conduct electroplating and Hough.
part of a proposal circulated on Obama’s most cherished reform
production increases. coating processes directly on the
Monday by Chris Dodd, the proposals.
According to the article: back of display panels.”
Senate banking committee Five Filters featured article:
“The frameless LCD screens are Frameless-screen notebooks
c h a i r m a n , i n a s u r p r i s i n g Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
made using reinforced glass expected to hit market in 2Q10
reversal of the central bank’s PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
substrates fitted onto or 3Q10, say Taiwan
political fortunes. Term Extraction. magnesium-alloy or plastic lids, m a k e r s [ D i g i T i m e s . c o m ]
The new division, if approved,
the sources said. Although a
falls short of an independent
62 Gadgets/ Entertainment/
XP downgrade lawsuit
thrown out, MS lawyers
celebrate rare victory
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 9:51:00 AM
It's hard to imagine a more busy
team of lawyers than those on-
staff at Microsoft, and while the
news isn't always good for them,
today they can hold their heads
high as a lawsuit filed last year
alleging that MS was profiting
from so-called "downgrade
fees" has finally been dismissed.
US District Court Judge Marsha
Pechman found that the
plaintiff, Emma Alvarado, didn't
prove Microsoft was in any way
gaining value from these
charges. In fact the downgrade
fee to move to XP was, in this
case, being charged by Lenovo,
not Microsoft, and was to cover
the additional time it took to
physically install that OS over
the standard (at the time) Vista.
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Jay Leno:
There's No Place
Like Home
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 4:35:00 AM
"The Tonight Show with Jay
Leno" re-launched Monday
night in black and white with
Jay impersonating Dorothy from
'The Wizard of Oz.'
Kevin Eubanks and Ross " The
Intern" Mathews crowded
In other words Alvarado missed VUDU rolls in around his bed as Jay came back
to consciousness from his
the mark and in the process
surely cost taxpayers and
Microsoft thousands and
Facebook and Twitter "dream" to host the show. There
was also a cameo from the very
funny Betty White, who
thousands of dollars. Hooray!
XP downgrade lawsuit thrown integration
out, MS lawyers celebrate rare Ben Drawbaugh (Engadget)
commented about the drab décor
of the barn.
able to see those particular Jay's new set is anything but
victory originally appeared on updates, but also join in on the drab, but rather full of color and
Engadget on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 Submitted at 3/2/2010 9:00:00 AM
fun by watching the same modernity. One thing was
09:51:00 EST. Please see our If you thought the constant roll movie. A pretty neat way to missing, thoug--a desk. He
t e r m s f o r u s e o f f e e d s . out of VUDU updates would promote and discover content, traveled around Burbank door-to
P e r m a l i n k a r s t e c h n i c a | end once Wal-mart took over but we're not sure we'd want to -door to find a new one. A
ComputerWorld| Email this| the reins, think again -- and no, f o l l o w a n y o n e w i t h s u c h creepy crawler, Randy Jackson,
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were not talking about how mundane updates and wonder if a n d A d a m C o r o l l a w e r e
quickly the after dark content baking the social features in interviewed in "Tonight Show"
got pulled. The update this week makes more sense, you know, neighbor's living rooms until he
will be of particular interest with the way Boxee does it. found a desk that was just right.
those who love to flood their VUDU rolls in Facebook and
social feeds with their every Twitter integration originally
movement, as now VUDU will appeared on Engadget on Tue,
u p d a t e y o u r F a c e b o o k o r 02 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST.
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Shenzhen TESO wins

“biggest iPhone” award
with new tablet clone
Tablet 1GB of DDR2 RAM, 3G, 4-in-1
(BestTabletReview.com)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 6:28:45 PM
card reader, WiFi b/g, three
USB 2.0 ports, VGA, optional
Logitech outs the sub-$100 600 and
The Shenzhen TESO tablet PC
GPS, accelerometer, 320GB HD
and 3000mAh LION battery. It
Have you been looking for a measures 11.4 x 5.9 x 0.79
650 Harmony remotes
Matt Burns (CrunchGear) so successful in the first place, backlit screen instead. But the
comically large iPhone for your inches and weighs 2.65 lbs.
Mime Steve Jobs routine? Then (great for superior arm strength). Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:00:01 AM but forgos a few creature- easy-to-set-up macros and
the day is yours. The Shenzhen Actually, that doesn’t sound comforts to reach the sub-$100 activites buttons are still in place
TESO is exactly what you need. like a half-bad tablet. We’ll be The Harmony universal remote market. so they are probably fine
We guess it could also double interested to see how the line just got two well-needed The $99 650 seems like it’s just remotes. In fact, the 650 seems
as a tablet PC since it runs eventual price compares with additions to its stable. The 600 like the few-months-old 700 like a great deal over the 700 if
Windows 7 and an Intel Atom the cloned source. and 650 offers most of the model with a small color screen you consider batteries are cheap
N450 1.66GHz processor. The Source: Cloned in China Harmony magic at a more and ergonomic feel, but lacks and they tend to last a long time
10.1-inch 1024 x 600 resolution Five Filters featured article: affordable price-point. Both the rechargeable batteries. The in these remotes. Just saying.
screen is also capacitive touch Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: models do the computer-assisted $79 600 keeps the same body
(in keeping with the theme). PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, setup thing that made the brand but comes with a monochrome
Rounding out the spec sheet is Term Extraction.
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Apple Supplier Audit Reveals Child Labor, More Violations
Darrell Etherington action. Plus, I can’t imagine
(TheAppleBlog) Apple’s audits come as a
Submitted at 3/1/2010 8:17:32 AM surprise to suppliers, so who
knows the extent to which the
Apple has been criticized in the violations might truly go.
past for not doing enough to Besides the age violations,
ensure that labor conditions in inspectors from Apple also
its supplier factories were up to found that more than 50 of its
international humanitarian supplier’s factories forced
standards. Today, it released its employers to work more than 60
2010 Supplier Responsibility hours in a given week, a
r e p o r t ( P D F ) , i n w h i c h i t maximum cap set by Apple
provides the details of audits it t h e m s e l v e s . M a n y o f t h e
conducts at those supplier facilities were also found to be
facilities, in order to gauge the not paying staff correctly. 48
degree to which violations are or facilities were using improper
aren’t taking place. calculations to determine
This time around, the report overtime pay, and at 24 workers
details no less than 17 violations were receiving less than the
at its supplier facilities, and minimum wage for regular
more than a few of them are working hours. In those cases,
fairly serious indeed. Underage the reason given was largely that
worker serious, in fact. Apple’s employees needed to meet strict
i n s p e c t o r s f o u n d t h a t 1 1 attendance requirements before
employees were employed prior becoming eligible for the
to being of legal working age in minimum wage rate.
the countries in question. Other violations included
According to the report, the age depriving staff of benefits like
issue was moot at the time the sick leave, and the falsification
audit was conducted, since the o f r e c o r d s . M a n y o f t h e
employees in question had falsification violations occurred
either reached legal age by then, in conjunction with other types
or were no longer employed at of offenses, which makes you
the supplier. Kind of convenient w o n d e r h o w m a n y t i m e s
if you ask me that all of these falsifications were “successful”
violations just happened to be and went unnoticed. At least one
past offenses and required no facility was found to have
E-reader News Edition
specific violation, but also the
underlying management system
needed to prevent its recurrence.
We track completion of each
corrective action to closure, with
an expectation that all violations
will be corrected as quickly as
possible, but not later than 90
days after the audit.
If, after a follow-up audit to
determine that corrective action
has been taken, the company is
still found to be in violation,
Apple works further with them
definitely covered up hiring It’s excellent to find that in to ensure that the fix really is
underage employees in the past, some cases Apple is basically put in place. Finally, as a course
and another was found to have acting as a regulatory body of last resort, “Apple may have
hidden records of overworking where none would otherwise no choice but to terminate the
and underpaying employees. e x i s t , b u t w h a t a r e t h e business relationship.”
Apple’s audit this year was the consequences if facilities are I respect Apple’s efforts
largest on record improving on f o u n d t o h a v e a c t u a l l y regarding this responsibility
the 83 facilities covered in the p e r p e t r a t e d v i o l a t i o n s ? report. No one is forcing them to
report covering the 2008 period: Especially in the case of child do this, and it does seem like
In 2009, Apple conducted labor violations, one might Cupertino is attempting to bring
audits at 102 facilities, including expect to see Apple ending its considerable pressure to bear
annual audits of all final professional relationships, in improving the working
assembly manufacturers, first- p a r t i c u l a r l y w h e n r e p e a t conditions of some of its most
time audits of component and violations become apparent. Not vulnerable employees. But
nonproduction suppliers, and 15 necessarily so, though. The without actual consequences
repeat audits of facilities where section detailing the “corrective implemented in a swift and
a core violation had been action process” informs as to consistent manner, it just seems
discovered. During most of our what the actual consequences like a public relations exercise
audits, suppliers stated that are for these suppliers: instead of a measure genuinely
Apple was the only company When a violation is found, concerned with the welfare of
that had ever audited their Apple requires the facility to human beings.
f a c i l i t y f o r s u p p l i e r implement a corrective action
responsibility. plan that addresses not only the
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Apple Acknowledges, Will Service iMac Screen
Color Issues
Darrell Etherington
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 11:00:56 AM
The 27-inch iMac has not been
Apple’s proudest moment. The
pricier version of the company’s
all-in-one desktop has had more
than its share of problems since
its launch in October of 2009.
Apple has released a number of
fixes aimed at getting things
back on track, but until recently
the Mac maker hadn’t addressed
the very vocal complaints of
some of its most important
customers.
The high-end iMac is the
machine of choice for many
graphic and photo professionals,
so screen color temperature
issues is not a problem that can
be treated lightly if you expect
to maintain the loyalty of one of
your core customer groups.
Now, according to Gizmodo,
Apple has acknowledged the
problem, and is telling people to
contact Apple Care to get it
resolved.
In case you’re wondering about
the specific symptoms of this
problem or its the first time
you’re hearing about it, a
number of owners of the new
iMacs are complaining that their
screens have an unpleasant
yellowish tinge as you move
from top to bottom. Since the
temperature is inconsistent
across the display, the problem
is even more noticeable.
Gizmodo managed to elicit a
public statement regarding the
problem by contacting Apple
We’ve addressed the issues that
caused display flickering and
yellow tint. Customers
concerned that their iMac is
affected should contact
AppleCare.
I still remember being told by
an Apple Store employee that
the same color tint issue which
affected two of my replacement
iPhones was a “cosmetic” issue
and wouldn’t be addressed if it
occurred more than twice, which
it did. At least on the much
larger screen Apple is admitting
that it is, in fact, a problem, and
not pretending it’s just
something customers should get
used to.
If you think your iMac may be
affected, but you aren’t sure or
you don’t have a reliable way to
directly and by repeatedly prove it once you actually do
publishing stories about the book your Genius appointment
specific issue, since it affected to have it looked at, try pointing
multiple machines purchased by your browser of choice at this
one of the tech site’s writers. link. The shades of gray are the
The statement is brief, but it same top and bottom, and it
should be enough to allow should pretty clearly show any
customers to bring in their yellowish tinge that may be
affected machines and receive affecting the bottom of your
no hassle from Apple store screen, even to dubious Apple
Store employees.
employees:
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Blacklight: Tango Down
coming to PSN, XBLA
and PC this summer
Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 9:15:00 AM
Xbox Live Arcade and
PlayStation Network haven't
traditionally been the most
familiar territories for new first-
person shooters, but titles like
Serious Sam HD and Battlefield
1943 have started carving out a
respectable niche. Ignition has
decided to join the fray,
announcing that Blacklight:
Tango Down is set to arrive on
XBLA, PSN and PC this
summer.
Details are hard to come by on
the Zombie Studios title ( first
revealed nearly a year ago), but
we know it's a "military action"
franchise that prides itself on its
weapon and character
customization. Zombie
describes the near-future world
of Blacklight as "disturbingly
detailed," with "old-world
architecture dripping with
modern sci-fi lighting and
brightly lit advertisements." And
just a crazy number of Grateful
Dead posters.
Gallery: Blacklight: Tango
Down
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66 TV/ Fashion/ E-reader News Edition

'How I Met Your Dustin Hoffman Taking New Beauty

Mother' - 'Hooked' on TV with 'Luck' Obsession: NP Set
Allison Waldman (TV Squad) Pretty Presto Palette
Recap Submitted at 3/2/2010 10:10:00 AM
ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog)
Joel Keller (TV Squad)
In 1965, Dustin Hoffman Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:30:00 AM
Submitted at 3/2/2010 9:24:00 AM played Buddy in an episode of
CBS's legal drama 'The I love Napoleon Perdis’ NP Set
(S05E16) When I was out in LA Defenders.' It didn't cause much palettes because they’re
for the press tour in January, I of a ripple. He was still an affordable, compact, and
had the pleasure of watching the unknown, struggling actor when chockfull of beautiful,
table read for this episode. This he landed the role of Benjamin universally flattering shades. At
was the actual Monday-morning in 'The Graduate,' a role bigger the moment, the new Pretty
table read, not a show for the names had all turned down Presto set ($17, Target stores) is
gathered critics; the writers were including Charles Grodin, getting the most face time—I’m
sitting by taking notes that Robert Redford and Warren a sucker for a faux glow, and the
would be used to make changes Beatty. The point is that unlike rosy blush and bronze eye
before shooting. many young actors, television shadows are to die for! The best
What struck me about the table did not launch the career of two- part is that the brown shimmers
read was that, despite the fact time Oscar winner Dustin aren’t just easy on the eyes;
that it was the first draft and the Hoffman. they’re perfect for the cheeks
cast hadn't fully gotten into how But Dustin is giving TV cheap. Milch's previous work too. So when I want sun-kissed
exactly they were going to play of what was coming, I laughed
as hard as I did when I was on another shot. Dustin Hoffman for HBO includes 'Deadwood' skin in a hurry, I take the
the script, the episode was will star in 'Luck,' David Milch's and 'John in Cincinatti.' biggest powder brush I have,
funny. People were genuinely the set a month and a half ago. If new series for HBO. Michael C o n t i n u e r e a d i n g D u s t i n swirl it over the blush and
laughing, including the writers, that's not the sign of a top-notch
Mann has also signed up to Hoffman Taking on TV with shadows, and apply the resulting
who have lived with the script episode, I don't know what is. direct the pilot, and Dennis 'Luck' rosy-bronze combo along my
for some time; they weren't Continue reading'How I Met Farina and John Ortiz have been Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, cheeks, forehead, and nose. For
cackling in an effort to sell their Your Mother' - 'Hooked' Recap cast as well. That's a boat-load A w a r d s , C a s t i n g , E m m y s , an extra dose of glamour, I pop
funny lines. In fact, it was one Filed under: OpEd, How I Met of talent and a good indication Reality-Free out the palette’s mini-mascara
of the funniest episodes of the Your Mother, Episode Reviews, that HBO is high on the project. P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | | and lip gloss and, voila! I’m
season. Reality-Free
Comments ready to go.
Watching the final version, I P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | | Presumably, Hoffman, Milch,
Mann and company don't come —Emily Hebert
noticed that not a whole lot C omments
Photo: Courtesy of Napoleon
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New Cast for 'Dancing Which Tweener Likes to Have Coke-
With the Stars' Revealed Fueled Sex in Public? [Blind Items]
Michael Pascua (TV Squad)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 8:00:00 AM
The celebrity cast of'Dancing
with the Stars' Season 10 has
been announced. ABC wisely
trimmed the cast down from 16
to 11. Hopefully this will get rid
of the unnecessary double
eliminations.
On paper, this season's cast
feels like the celebrities have a
higher caliber. They are at least
closer to B-listers than just
washed-up celebrities. This
balances out the reality TV stars
that stretch the definition of
"Star." I have come to terms
with the fact that Kate Gosselin
will end up on my television in
one way or another with the
excuse that she's doing it for her
kids. The full list after the jump.
Continue reading New Cast for
Street Chic: Milan Fashion Week
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Submitted at 3/2/2010 4:00:00 AM
Rachel Zoe's multistrand
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Brian Moylan (Gawker)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 10:03:42 AM
She walked into the party, like
she was walking on to a yacht.
OK, it was more like walking
into a brothel. This MTV star
doesn't want her sex tape to be
the clouds in her coffee. They're
so vain.
1."This A list female tweener
from a cable channel recently
wandered into a party drunk out
of her mind. When she first
arrived she ignored everyone
' D a n c i n g W i t h t h e S t a r s ' else and just sat on the lap of the
Revealed guy who brought her to the
Filed under: OpEd, Dancing party. She then takes out an
With The Stars, Casting eight ball of coke and snorts line
P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | | after line, not even paying
Comments attention to the rest of the just hikes up her skirt and pulls (either past or present). A source
people at the party. Some people him on top of her. He asks if she discovered one of the show's
leave, so there's only about 5 or wants a condom and she says, stars had a hidden side job that a
6 people left, and she keeps 'Nah, f**k it.' They then had sex little internet research might be
saying how hot she is so she just in front of a room of people. able to uncover. She's been in
takes off her shirt, breasts totally After having sex, the guy she several amateur adult films. It
exposed. At this point everyone came with passed out. Our wouldn't be that big of a deal,
else is kind of like, 'What in tweener got down off the bunk but she wants a future as an
the...?' Anyway a little later on, without even saying anything, actress and is even shopping out
everyone's still drinking, she did some more lines and left." [ a network show and doesn't
gets up on this bunk bed that's in CDaN] want the internet clips
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Listened to Rahm Emanuel [Rahmance]
Ravi Somaiya (Gawker) presidency and thus condition of anonymity to give a
Submitted at 3/2/2010 8:42:26 AM overstretched somewhat. frank assessment of frustration
Emanuel, meanwhile, quietly with the White House. The
According to a Washington b l a s p h e m e d a n d r a g e d t o source blamed Obama's
Post profile, Rahm Emanuel— himself while getting behind
hired as White House chief-of- whatever he was told to get
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creating a self-confidence and
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almost every issue from the on in the White House. We'll
Manhattan terror trial to jobs probably only find out in post-
marginal things a White House
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[Reality TV]
Hamilton Nolan (Gawker)
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From the network that brought
you "Paranormal Cops" and that
show about the exterminator
comes a new drama about the
dramatic tedium faced by New
York MTA workers. Well—it
would be coming, if the MTA
had its shit together.
A&E has an idea. Not just any
idea; an idea for a reality show
about life as a worker in New
York's subway system. There
would be, you know, trains,
surly people, delays, homeless
people, the maddeningly slow
hands of the clock, crazy people.
Everything. It's no "Parking
Wars," sure, but it has the
potential to equal or even
surpass " Sell This House" in its
ability to leverage a distasteful
task into purported
entertainment. And its creator
also stood out as an important
runway statement. Donatella
showed motocross minis at
Versace, while Domenico Dolce
and Stefano Gabbana explored
was inspired by a great work of ski-bunny chic at D&G(reindeer
art: print catsuit anyone?). Here, a
Inspired by his children's few of my favorite things from
Thomas the Tank Engine toys, Milan.
[producer Ross] Breitenbach —Violet Moon Gayn or
approached the transportation Left to right: Sexy ski-bunny
authority last year about an chic at D&G, a motocross mini
a n i m a t e d c h i l d r e n ' s s h o w at Versace, Bottega Veneta
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Canada a step closer
'American Idol''s First to hiking rates from
Four Cut Talk to ET record low?
Peter Boockvar (The Big
(ETonline - Breaking News) went out.' I felt like I kept it Picture)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 3:10:00 AM together, I sang my song better
Submitted at 3/2/2010 7:05:02 AM
than I sang it the first time and
America voted and Janell I'm really happy with how it
After Australia raised rates to
Wheeler, Ashley Rodriguez, Joe went," Janell says.
4% as expected, the other major
Munoz and Tyler Grady were all For his part, Tyler says he isn't
commodity country, Canada,
eliminated from the ninth season clear why he was eliminated,
decided to leave rates
of "American Idol"'s Top 24. except for the fact that he didn't
unchanged at their record low of
Now ET talks to the ousted g e t e n o u g h v o t e s . " A s a
.25%, as expected. They also
"Idol" hopefuls about the performer you have to stick to
repeated that policy won’t
disappointment of not making it your guns," he says. "You have
another week on the singing to be honest and you have to Madoff Investors change before the end of Q2 but
they hinted that they could go
competition. stay true to yourself. If you're
"If there was any way to go out, going to change your style of
I'm so proud of myself in the performance and your style of
Denied Fantasy Money up soon after as they said “core
inflation has been slightly firmer
than projected, the result of both
way that I did. Several of the vocals and be inconsistent, you
girls have even texted me and won't be able to build a solid fan [Scams]
just said, 'Janelle, you had so base, because people won't be Hamilton Nolan (Gawker)
transitory factors and the higher
level of economic activity.”
promptly disappeared when the They also said “the level of
much poise, you were a class act able to catch on to you." fraud was discovered. But the economic activity in Canada has
Submitted at 3/2/2010 9:06:34 AM
and we look up to you and we people who invested with been slightly higher than the
really admire the way that you A judge ruled yesterday that if Madoff and didn't get their bank had projected” in its Jan
you invested with Bernie original investment out in report. Rates have been at
Asian funds line up to back Madoff, but withdrew all the
money you invested, you didn't
time—the ones who lost real record lows because of the
money, as opposed to fantasy BoC’s concern with economic
Pru deal actually "lose" money,
regardless of the fictional
money—say they should get growth in the US, Canada’s
first crack at any reparations, biggest trading partner, and due
(Financial Times - US The move is a sign that, after a c c o u n t b a l a n c e M a d o f f
homepage) and a judge agreed. to the strength in the Canadian $
suffering big losses on their presented you. Take one guess Is it possible to feel sorry for which today is rallying to a 6
Submitted at 3/1/2010 11:13:46 AM investments in western financial who disagrees with this. people and think they're greedy, week high vs the US$ but the
g r o u p s d u r i n g t h e c r i s i s , Yes, it's those very same at the same time? Because that time has passed for record low
Sovereign wealth funds from sovereign wealth funds are i n v e s t o r s . T h e y s a y t h e i r is how we feel about these "I am i n t e r e s t r a t e s i n C a n a d a
China and Singapore have been prepared to put their money to "losses" should be calculated entitled to my fantasy money" considering their more positive
l i n e d u p t o h e l p f u n d work in the sector, especially on according to their final account Madoff investors. If this is not outlook and bubbly housing
Prudential’s $35.5bn purchase deals in their core markets. balances, which were totally possible, we just feel sorry for market.
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Host Nation’s Hockey Gold Caps Canada’s Success
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 8:34:02 AM
Canada won a record 14 gold
medals in the Vancouver
Olympics, but the ones draped
around a happy group of hockey
players are the pieces of
precious metal that Canadians
will celebrate most exuberantly
from coast to coast for a long
time. No other medal shines as
radiantly as the one worn by one
of the NHL’s dominant young
stars, Sidney Crosby, whose
overtime goal beat a scrappy
Team USA, 3-2. The result was
a fitting conclusion for Canada’s
collection of all-world hockey
talent, which started slowly in
the tournament, including a loss
to their most bitter rival to the
south, sending Canadians into
fits of paroxysm. But the nation
of 34 million fanatics is on top
of the hockey world today
thanks to Crosby’s magic, and
all is well in the Great White
North. Getty Images A hockey
team so good, they made
bouquets look tough.
“Had Crosby not slipped a pass
from Jarome Iginla through the
pads of Ryan Miller, the
nonpareil American goalie, and
had the Americans beaten the
permeable Roberto Luongo once
more, the past three weeks
would’ve been deemed a failure
across Canada, for hockey is
really all that matters,” Yahoo’s
Jeff Passan writes. “This isn’t to
demean any of the record 14
gold medals won by Canada.
Just know the populace would
trade 13 if it meant one in
hockey.”
The Toronto Star’s Damien
Cox says it was fitting that
Crosby, on hockey’s biggest
stage, scored the winning goal.
“He was expected to do it,” Cox
writes. “And when it didn’t
seem as if he would produce the
moment in an Olympic
tournament that appeared
determined to push him to the
rear and make him something
other than the main story, he did
it anyway. He found the
moment.”
In the New York Daily News,
Filip Bondy notes that Sid the
Kid saved Canada twice in a
tournament in which he wasn’t
the best player. “Crosby rescued
Canada once before in this
tournament, in a shootout
against Switzerland,” Bondy
writes. “In truth, he didn’t look
all that great yesterday, or for
much of this entire tournament,
yet he won two games by
himself. That’s what superstars
do.”
ESPN’s Scott Burnside has a
simple question after such a
pulsating, nerve-racking game.
“Could we have some more,
please? Did it have to end?”
Burnside asks. “Maybe
Crosby’s shot didn’t really
surprise U.S. netminder Ryan
Miller and end this gold-medal
game. Maybe Sunday’s titanic
afternoon of hockey could go
on. And on. And on.”
The Vancouver Olympics
closed with a finale of fireworks
and a star-studded celebration.
Video courtesy of AFP.
But it did end in heartbreaking
fashion for Team USA, which
battled back valiantly from a
two-goal deficit and forced
overtime on Zach Parise’s goal
with 24.4 seconds left in
regulation. In the Los Angeles
Times, Bill Plaschke writes that
he thinks both teams came out
winners. “The victory gave
Canada its 14th gold medal
here, a record for any country in
the Winter Olympics,” Plaschke
writes. “The silver gave the U.S.
37 overall medals, also a Winter
Games record. Given that, could
it be the outcome worked for
both sides? Is such a thing even
possible in sports anymore?”
Team USA didn’t have the
storybook ending it yearned for,
but its surprising run to the gold
-medal game shows how much
depth and skill the team has,
CBS Sports’s Wes Goldstein
writes.
The New York Post’s Mike
Vaccaro says fans will
remember the game — and the
finish — for years to come.
“You will always remember the
sinking feeling of seeing that
puck leave Sidney Crosby’s
stick, elude the Americans’
brilliant goalie, and settle in the
back of the net, freezing the
scoreboard forever at Canada 3,
USA 2,” Vaccaro writes. “There
is nothing quite so sudden as
sudden-death hockey, when an
entire season — or an entire
Olympics — comes to a
screeching, permanent halt.”
Vaccaro’s Post colleague Phil
Mushnick loved that a big
sporting event started at a decent
hour.
Writing before the gold-medal
game, the Pittsburgh Post-
Gazette’s Dejan Kovacevic
questions whether the NHL
would continue to suspend
operations for the Olympics
without better U.S. television
coverage.
Also in the Post-Gazette, Ron
Cook writes that he wants the
NHL’s best to continue playing
in the Olympics.
Yahoo’s Dan Wetzel lists the
Games’ winners and losers.
The Guardian’s Lawrence
Donegan reviews the best and
worst of the Vancouver
Olympics.
Slate’s Josh Levin playfully
takes stock of the commercial
appeal of skater Kim Yu-Na in
her native Korea.
Making a second appearance,
Plaschke writes in the L.A.
Times that he appreciates the
kindness and friendship of
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Canadians. “Forget the medal
counts and podium ceremonies,
there was only one true winner
here, the beauty and breadth of
its land equaled only by the
daily kindness of its people,”
Plaschke writes. “Canada, you
were gold.”
But not to Fort Worth Star-
Telegram columnist Gil
LeBreton. “From the opening
ceremony to Sunday’s closing,
from the tragic death of
Georgian luger Nodar
Kumaritashvili to Sunday’s gold
-medal hockey game, on the
streets of Vancouver and at the
Olympic venues, only a token
nod was given to the rest of the
world’s athletes,” LeBreton
laments. “I was as surprised as I
was disappointed. Had the
classic Canadian inferiority
complex finally decided to bite
back?”* * *
And now that the Olympics are
over, the Fix returns to other
games. With Kansas, Kentucky
and Purdue all losing on the
penultimate weekend of regular-
season college basketball, No. 4
Syracuse is poised to jump over
that trio to No. 1 when the latest
Associated Press poll is released
Monday.
In front of a record crowd at the
Carrier Dome on Saturday, the
Orange routed No. 7 Villanova,
95-77. Yahoo’s Jason King
writes that the Orange should
get the top ranking, which
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retain the top two seeds, they
wouldn't meet until the Eastern
Conference finals, which begin
in mid-May.
"Will be out for a min but when
I return it is on," O'Neal posted
on his Twitter account Monday
morning. "Win da ring for da
king! Luv my team, Cavs baby!"
O'Neal has played well for the
Cavaliers, averaging 12 points
and 6.7 rebounds in 53 games.
He injured the thumb Thursday
at Boston when his shot was
blocked by Glen "Big Baby"
Davis with just over 7 minutes
left in the first half.
Cavs general manager Danny
Ferry said O'Neal will wear a
splint for the next two weeks,
then begin his rehab.
"Our guys have done a very
good job of stepping up this
season. We are confident they
will do the same in this
situation," Ferry said. "We are
fortunate to have some depth in
our front court that can keep us
moving forward while Shaq
recovers and returns to play for
the postseason."
Anderson Varejao will continue
to start at center for Cleveland,
which has the NBA's best record
average is much
easier in Asia
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Peter Boockvar (The Big
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Former backup Zydrunas
After cutting interest rates from
Ilgauskas, traded to Washington
7.25% to 3% over the Aug ‘08
for Antawn Jamison, is now a
to Apr ‘09 time frame to battle
free agent following a buyout by
the credit implosion, the
the Wizards. Ilgauskas is free to
Reserve Bank of Australia
sign with any team, but will
continues to normalize policy.
have to wait another couple of
They raised rates 25 bps to 4%
weeks under NBA rules should
as they believe growth is “likely
he elect to re-sign with the
to be close to trend and inflation
Cavaliers.
close to target over the coming
Cleveland has battled injuries
year.” Helped by huge exposure
and personnel losses all season.
to Asia “where financial sectors
Point guard Mo Williams
are not impaired,” allows policy
recently returned after missing
11 games with an injured
US, UK, etc…, in contrast,
shoulder and guard Delonte
won’t know back to “average”
West bounced in and out of the
for years to come. Growing
rotation early because of
optimism that the Greek fire is
personal reasons. Powe debuted
flaming out for now ahead of
last week after recovering from
this week’s details on more cuts
knee surgery last summer.
"There's nothing we can do
week low to around 300 bps.
about it," coach Mike Brown
After falling below 1.35 vs the
said. "It's happened all year.
US$ for the 5th day in the past
Hopefully someone will step up
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and fill the void and we'll just
making 1.35 a key short term
keep moving forward."
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The Count: About Those Medal Records for U.S.,
Canada…
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 3:34:02 PM
For the second straight
Olympiad, the title of most-
decorated nation is in dispute.
The host Canadians won 14 gold
medals, more than any other
nation ever has at a Winter
Olympics and four more than
Germany, which finished
second in that category. But the
U.S. won the most medals
overall, a record haul of 37.
Assign three points for gold,
two for silver and one for
bronze, and the U.S. also won,
edging Germany by seven
points and Canada by nine. Go
with a 5-3-1 system that counts
the gold more heavily, and the
bronze less so, and the U.S. still
leads, this time with Canada and
Germany tied for second, seven
points back. (The U.S. led all
nations in both silvers and
bronzes.) Either of these point
systems is arbitrary, but then so
is the medal system itself —
third arbitrarily was chosen to
count infinitely more than fourth
in the overall medal count. (The
Journal sought to rectify this by
counting which countries had
the most last-place finishes.)
Reuters All those shiny discs for
Canada’s triumphant men’s
curling team counted as just one
medal in the overall count.
This is reminiscent of the
previous Olympics, in Summer
2008, when the host nation of
China led the gold-medal count
but the U.S. won the most
medals overall. Chinese athletes
and sports administrators
viewed other medals merely as
tiebreakers, as do other nations.
Canada’s view is a little less
clear; the nation’s Own the
Podium goals were 35 medals,
which Canadian athletes didn’t
achieve, and 12 golds, which
they exceeded.
Such disputed national winners
are common at Winter Games,
thanks to the lack of
international consensus on what
constitutes medal supremacy. I
applied these four potential
scoring systems to the last 13
Winter Olympics medal tables,
including this year’s (starting in
1964, the first time there were at
least 100 medals handed out;
this year there were 258). Four
previous times — in 1980,
1984, 1994 and 2002 — the
nation that won the most golds
didn’t the overall medal count,
according to Sports Reference’s
Olympics database.
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This slice of Winter Olympics gold-medal games each were markets as sterling and the euro
history also places the two awarded a gold medal, but those remained in focus.
records — Canada’s gold-medal wins counted as just two medals The FTSE World equity index
count and the Americans’ record in Canada’s overall count. rose 0.8 per cent, with risk
medal total — in context. The Meanwhile two Norwegian appetite fuelled by recent
rapid rise in number of events cross-country skiers, Marit supportive economic data – such
makes it easier to record big Bjørgen and Petter Northug Jr., as Monday’s worldwide surveys
totals. Consider that the U.S. combined for five gold medals of manufacturing– and signs
won 14.3% of all medals this and nine overall. that the pressure on Greek debt
year, 13.5% of points in the 3-2- Also, these rankings don’t take may be easing.
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14 nations won a greater share financial resources, Slovakia,
of all medals than the U.S. did Slovenia, Croatia and Estonia
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Americans on 5-3-1 points. And seven silvers and three bronzes.
14 nations took a greater share
of available golds than Canada
did this year.
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Syracuse Orange climb
Allen Iverson is not returning to Philadelphia to No. 1 in ESPN/USA
Today coaches' poll
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Inside Pride House Alistair Overeem Likely to

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) in Whistler’s Olympic Village.
One wall of the lounge is
because they’re worried about
the consequences of coming out
Face Brett Rogers on May
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:49:48 AM
covered in photos of gay
You’ve seen the Molson and athletes, the ceiling is draped
— or even of being rumored to
be gay.
Strikeforce Card
Heineken houses, the pavilions with a piece of the longest “The ramifications are very big Mike Chiappetta (FanHouse
Main)
for the Swiss, the Irish and the rainbow flag in the world. Then for an athlete,” says Nelson. “If
Jamaican bobsledders. What there’s the piece de resistance: a you’re a hockey player you may Submitted at 3/1/2010 4:03:00 PM

nobody’s seen before these statue of a nude hockey player get passed over on a trade. You
Olympics is Pride House, the taking aim at an invisible puck. might lose millions of dollars in Filed under: Strikeforce, News
first venue dedicated to gay and No mistaking this vibe. sponsorships.” Strikeforce heavyweight
lesbian athletes, attendees and Edmonton, Alberta-based artist Still, the House has seen champion Alistair Overeem is
supporters. Edmund Haakonson, who took Canadian two gold medalists expected to make his long-
Located in Whistler’s Olympic as his inspiration the famous stop by: swimmer Mark awaited return to the fold and
Village, near the courses for Greek statue of the discus Tewksbury (Barcelona ‘92) and fight for the promotion during
cross-country and alpine skiing, thrower, describes the statue as skeleton racer Jon Montgomery, its May event.
the idea behind Pride House was “ a n c i e n t G r e e k O l y m p i c who dropped by with his Overeem confirmed his
to have a comfortable place for sculpture crashed headlong into girlfriend during a party and participation on his Twitter
take place on May 15.
gay athletes and attendees to modern Canadian sport.” (He’s ended up auctioning off a account, and though he later
The source said Overeem is
hang out, says venue organizer an Edmonton Oilers fan.) cookbook and some art work deleted the message, a source
likely to fight Brett Rogers in a
Dean Nelson. As the games draw to an end, (he’s a car auctioneer in real told MMA Fighting that he is
non-title matchup, but that the
Phred Dvorak interviews Nelson says there’s been a life). still expected to compete on the
fight was not yet officially
sculptor Edmund Haakonson steady stream of visitors but few event, which is still
signed.
about his statue at Pride House celebrity athletes, possibly unannounced but expected to

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continued from page 70

would be their first in 20 years,
and will contend for the national
title.
The Syracuse Post-Standard’s
Mike Waters blogs that three
schools — Kansas, Kentucky
and Syracuse — could make a
claim for the top spot.
At the Sporting News, Mike
DeCourcy surveys the damage
surrounding the Boilermakers,
who played their first game
Sunday without forward Robbie
Hummel — out for the rest of
the season with a torn ACL —
and lost to Michigan State.* * *
A new biography of Willie
Mays has hit the bookstores. In
the New York Times, Pete
Hamill reviews James S.
Hirsch’s book “ Willie Mays:
The Life, the Legend,” which he
calls a “long, fascinating
account.”
Can’t Stop the Bleeding’s Ben
Schwartz wasn’t too impressed
by Hamill’s review, however.
“Only the adolescent perfection
of Hamill’s pre-teen Brooklyn
seems to matter as a yardstick
here,” Schwartz writes. “To
him, steroids are apparently the
only thing in baseball history Don Hartline and to fellow Fixer
that has ‘permanently stained’ David Roth.
the innocence of the game. Not Found a good column from the
segregation (90 years of it), not world of sports? Don’t keep it to
pre-steroid era drugs, bans on yourself — write to us at
free agency, the Black Sox, not dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll
the pre-union days of discarded consider your find for inclusion
and broken players without in the Daily Fix. You can email
health care, not the totally Garey at ris84rap@gmail.com.
arbitrary ‘golden age’ of NY
Babe Ruth baseball [versus]
reality in determining records
and Hall of Fame ballots or
standards of achievement nope,
just steroids.”
– Tip of the Fix cap to reader
76 Sports/ E-reader News Edition

Jim Brown Actually Was Hurt --

Once
Terence Moore (FanHouse linebacker power during his
Main) nine NFL seasons, was he ever
Submitted at 3/1/2010 3:00:00 PM concussed?
"Well, I don't know if I had a
Filed under: FanHouse concussion. I got dinged. We
Exclusive Ever hear of Jim called it getting dinged, where I
Brown? Well, he was on the couldn't remember the plays,"
other end of the phone from his said Brown, 74, who, needless
Cleveland home, and as always, to say, isn't sure of the year or
he wasn't boring. The NFL's all-
time best running back had a
the opponent involved with the
moment. He does remember that
Florida's Donovan
few things to say about the
releasing of LaDanian
Tomlinson and Brian
he was hit violently in the back
of his neck and that he never left
the game. Added Brown, "I
Knew Syracuse Was
Westbrook, along with the lack
of loyalty in the game that has
didn't get knocked out, so I
could still function, but I just
running back when his forward couldn't remember the plays. So
This Good
spanned the decades. Brett McMurphy (FanHouse our team in the 2005-06,"
First things first, though. Never progress is stopped. I told the quarterback to tell me Main) Donovan said on Dec. 10 after
h a v e l e a g u e o f f i c i a l s a n d Just wondering: Did the world each play -- tell me before each Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:02:00 AM Syracuse improved to 9-0. "We
members of the players union every spin backward during the o n e o f t h e m w h a t m y lost [three starters] and started
placed this much emphasis on late 1950s through the early assignment is, and I will carry it Filed under: Florida, Syracuse, the year unranked and we went
trying to reduce concussions. 1 9 6 0 s ? W h i c h i s t o s a y , out." Big East on to win the national
They even are considering courtesy of noted tough guy He chuckled softly. SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Give c h a m p i o n s h i p .
making it illegal to pound a Brown blasting folks with Billy Donovan credit. The "Based on what I've seen, I
Florida coach was way ahead of think they're capable of winning
the curve about how good the national championship. ... I
Syracuse was going to be this think they have everything.
year. They've got a low post presence.
Back on Dec. 10 after losing to They rebound. They shoot the 3.
the Orange 85-73 in Tampa, They're an unselfish team. They
Fla., in the SEC/Big East can turn you over. They can beat
Invitational, Donovan said you in a lot of different ways."
Syracuse had the look of a On Saturday night, Villanova
national title contender. And was the latest to discover
Donovan should know after Syracuse's versatility. The
g u i d i n g t h e G a t o r s t o Wildcats lost at Syracuse 95-77
c o n s e c u t i v e n a t i o n a l in the Carrier Dome before an
championships in 2005-06 and on campus NCAA record crowd
2006-07. of 34,616.
"Syracuse reminds me a lot of
E-reader News Edition Sports/ Game/ 77

Dreams Undimmed, Graham Jokes Abound for Knicks,

Rahal Joins IndyCar Whose Only Hope Is the
Unemployment Line Last Laugh
Holly Cain (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 8:22:00 AM
Filed under: NASCAR Rumors,
IRL On the bright side, Graham
Rahal figures by the time the
IZOD IndyCar Series begins
March 14 in Brazil, he will have
essentially earned an advanced
degree in marketing and
promotion.
What the 21-year-old really
wants, however, is a job behind
the wheel of a race car --
preferably a car without fenders.
"I know there have been a lot of
NASCAR rumors, but right now
my focus is 100 percent on
being in the IndyCar Series,''
Rahal told FanHouse this
weekend.
"I'm not just an IndyCar driver,
but very much a fan of the sport
and to make a big switch like
that takes time to consider. As
of this second, everything I have
going is for IndyCar.''
So instead of joining Danica
Patrick in the stock car ranks --
even as a part-time gig -- Rahal
has been visiting America's
corporate boardrooms hoping to
attract financial backing for the
2010 IndyCar season. The
timing, however, couldn't be
worse.
Pat McManamon (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 4:30:00 PM
Filed under: Cavaliers, Knicks
CLEVELAND -- Is it worth it?
That's the question that came to
mind, over and over, as the
Cleveland Cavaliers obliterated
the New York Knicks Monday
night.
Obliterated might be too kind a
word, actually.
Because the Cavs eviscerated
the Knicks, tore them up and
down and all apart. The team
that LeBron James plays for this
season pretty much embarrassed
the team some folks think he
will play for next season.
Rumor: Japanese
game programmers
report low salaries
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 4:30:00 AM
[ Chris Gladis] It would be, like,
totally glamorous and exciting
to be a programmer for a game
company in Japan, right? Maybe
The 124-93 final actually was not so much. According to
misleading. How bad was it? anonymous responders on
"They outclassed us," New York Japanese super-forum 2ch (as
coach Mike D'Antoni said. translated by CNNGo), salaries
" T h e y o u t m a t c h e d u s . for game programmers are far
Outplayed us." below what you'd expect for a
tech job in one of the most
expensive countries in the world
to live in.
RUMOR: page 78

Splinter Cell: Conviction Xbox 360 bundle coming this April

Richard Mitchell (Joystiq) Europe, Australia and New Cell: Conviction, thanks to its on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:15:00
Submitted at 3/2/2010 10:15:00 AM Zealand. The bundle will retail split-screen co-op modes. EST. Please see our terms for
for $399 and will include two Check out hi-res images of the use of feeds.
click for more top-secret controllers, a standard edition bundle in the gallery below. Read| Permalink| Email this|
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Microsoft has announced a Conviction and a 250GB hard Conviction Xbox 360 bundle
special Splinter Cell: Conviction drive. We should remind readers Splinter Cell: Conviction Xbox
Xbox 360 bundle set to arrive that, unlike the one offered in the second controller will 360 bundle coming this April
this April in North America, the Final Fantasy XIII bundle, actually be useful in Splinter originally appeared on Joystiq
78 Game/
Welcome Wii-centric
studio Judobaby to the
world
Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 8:35:00 AM
Several old hands from Sony,
Crystal Dynamics, Sega, and
Capcom have unveiled their
newest project, Wii-focused
developer Judobaby, to the
world. Just like a real baby, it's
been in "stealth development"
for around a year*, crafting its
family-friendly first release as
part of what the company says
will be "a line of fun, humorous,
'pick-up & play' products." At
the helm of the Redwood City,
California firm is Dan Mueller,
who last founded the now-dead
BottleRocket.
Its secret project is set to launch
this year, and Gamasutra reports
there's already talk of "a live-
action motion picture tie-in."
Subsequently, we hope that you
will join with us and sign this
petition, protesting the rumored
film version of this game that
we will some day care about a
great deal, maybe. The time for
action is later! (But we're
getting a head start.)
*Yes, we understand the
gestation time for a typical
human is nine months. Please
stop messing up our joke.
Welcome Wii-centric studio
Judobaby to the world originally
appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 02
Mar 2010 08:35:00 EST. Please
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RUMOR:
continued from page 77
"¥130,000 [$1,457] for 256 [$7,622] a month, with a
hours of work a month," one
poster reports. "¥160,000
separate yearly bonus," one
anonymous poster boasts. "But
[$1,793] and I am ready to die," it isn't in the game industry.
another laments. "I can't even
afford the 'recruit suit' I'll need
Ha!" The moral of this story is
this: Don't work for a game
for interviewing for another company in Japan.
job." How do you live in Tokyo [Via Kotaku]
on that kind of scratch? Rumor: Japanese game
"¥180,000 [$2,017] a month, no programmers report low salaries
bonus, and only thanks to the originally appeared on Joystiq
company dorm can I afford to on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:30:00
live in Tokyo," one responder EST. Please see our terms for
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It seems that game development Read| Permalink| Email this|
is considerably less prestigious Comments
than other fields. "I'm 27, live in
Tokyo, working for a major
company, and make ¥680,000
Hideo Kojima's Twitter feed goes
bilingual, now in English
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) now up and running, revealing making Metal Gear Solid
Submitted at 3/2/2010 9:45:00 AM that Kojima is just an ordinary games.
dude. Whod've thunk it? Hideo Kojima's Twitter feed
G i v e o u r l i m i t e d Take, for example, this recent goes bilingual, now in English
comprehension of the Japanese Tweet: "My stomach hurts, originally appeared on Joystiq
language, we were free to nose's running, and my hair is on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:45:00
imagine Hideo Kojima's Twitter g e t t i n g l o n g . " A n d t h e n , EST. Please see our terms for
feed to be an outlet for the following that, a picture of his use of feeds.
idiosyncratic developer's most hair. See? He's just like you or Read| Permalink| Email this|
outlandish, puzzling statements. us, only when he's done posting Comments
However, an English-language self-shot pictures of himself on
version of his Twitter page is the internet, he gets back to
E-reader News Edition Fashion/ E-reader News/ 79

Freescale's New Chip Could

Revolutionize E-Readers (PC World
via Yahoo! News)
(Yahoo! News Search Results operate at full speed and then comparatively bloated price tag
for e-readers) switch off to save power. Given a run for its money and further
Submitted at 3/1/2010 1:23:00 PM the extensive battery life of Amazon's reign on the eReader
current eReaders, adding more market.
eReaders are about to get juice is just icing on the cake. Will Traditional eReaders Still
hotter, faster and cheaper. OMG When? be Relevant?
Freescale Semiconductor-- Freescale's Web site says the The big question is whether or
makers of the guts behind i.MX508 will be available to not people will still be buying
Amazon's Kindle and Sony's "select customers early in the traditional E Ink eReaders by
Reader -- announced it has third quarter of 2010." By the time Freescale's chip is
created a chip that will rock the "select customers" Freescale released. Color, touchable
eReader world. The forthcoming likely means its most powerful screens could experience a
i.MX508 processor will double clients, Amazon and Sony. massive boom in the next few
Look Chic in Your 20s, eReader speed, support large Burchers was careful to add that
color screens, improve battery it usually takes about six months
life and lower the retail cost by from sampling a chip to a
months, which could lead to a
decline in consumer interest in E
Ink.
30s, and 40s Wearing the about $30.
Faster and Long-Lasting
finished product going on sale.
With a job posting that hints at
Tablets are one thing; eReaders
are another. Amazon always
Season’s Hottest Trends Current eReaders generally flip bringing color to the Kindle,
pages in about two seconds; Amazon's device could wield
stresses that its Kindle is meant
for book readers, whereas
ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) not, age needn’t apply. Click Freescale wants to cut that down serious competition to colorful tablets are for people engaged in
Submitted at 3/1/2010 12:14:22 PM here to find out how to make to size. Glen Burchers, a tablet devices like Apple's iPad, other interests as well. And with
spring’s hottest trends—from marketing director at Freescale, and just in time. such fierce competition out
Truth be told, Daria Werbowy r u f f l e s t o f r i n g e — a g e - purports that its new chip will How Much Will eReader Prices there, and eReaders' relative
could look chic in a burlap sack. a p p r o p r i a t e . populate E Ink screens in less Drop? newness to the market, it's likely
That said, at 26, (a good 8-10 —Violet Moon Gayn or than half a second-- that might The new chip will cost to me that Freescale will arrive
years older than many of the Two of spring's standout trends: even be faster than turning a manufacturers less than $10 in just in time.
models walking the runways in feminine flourishes on the physical book's page. quantities greater than 250,000 Five Filters featured article:
New York, London, Milan, and r u n w a y a t V a l e n t i n o a n d In terms of battery life, the units and will have a minus $30 Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
Paris) Werbowy looks better military-chic worn by Daria at i.MX508 processor includes effect on retail sales. Some are PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
than ever. On the runway at Balmain "special power modes" that predicting the Kindle could drop Term Extraction.
Balmain back in October, she Runway photos: Imaxtree allow the eReader and some to under $150. Again, this could
perfectly embodied Decarnin’s Follow ELLE on Twitter. peripherals ( eReader apps?) to g i v e t h e i P a d a n d i t s
military-chic look for spring. Become our Facebook fan!
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80 Economy/ E-reader News/ E-reader News Edition
New Freescale
Semiconductor
technology will drive
down prices on e-readers
like Kindle (New York
Daily News)
(Yahoo! News Search Results
for e-readers)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 2:36:00 PM

Reuters
Tuesday, March 2nd 2010,
4:00 AM New technology to
lower price of e-readers
Will you buy a Kindle or
another kind of e-reader if price
drops by $30?
Freescale Semiconductor says
its newest chip will help drive
down prices in the next
generation of electronic readers,
which analysts say is key to the
devices gaining mass adoption.
Freescale's next-generation e-
reader chip combines two
important pieces -- an
applications processor and a
Mortgage Rates: Only One Way to Go display controller -- into a single
piece of hardware, which the
Michael Panzner (The Big While there have been some That means yields and/or early 1990s, we may well be on company says will cut the retail
Picture) suggestions that the Fed may spreads on mortgage-related the cusp of a secular rise in the price by around $30.
Submitted at 3/2/2010 6:45:03 AM extend and expand the program borrowings have only one way cost of mortgage-related "Cost is really the main driver of
beyond the end of next month, to go. As it happens, a quick financing costs. Another reason, the market's growth," said Glen
T h e r e ’ s b e e n p l e n t y o f nothing has been said officially. read of the chart of the 30-year perhaps, to bet against a near- Burchers, director of global
speculation about what will Assuming it ends on March 31st fixed-rate mortgage yield less its term recovery in house prices. consumer marketing for
happen to mortgage rates if and as planned, the laws of supply- government bond market Five Filters featured article: Freescale. He said the chip will
when the Federal Reserve wraps and-demand would seem to counterpart lends further weight Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: also allow for faster, more
up the last of its planned indicate that the MBS market is to that view. That is, it looks PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, responsive performance.
purchases under the $1.25 headed for a heap of trouble. rather bullish — which is bad Term Extraction. Privately held Freescale, whose
t r i l l i o n M o r t g a g e - B a c k e d Why? The Fed has been the for borrowers. chips are already used in
S e c u r i t y ( M B S ) p u r c h a s e biggest buyer of residential In fact, based on what happened Amazon.com Inc's Kindle and
program, first announced in mortgage-backed securities by following the similar technical Sony Corp's Reader, says it
November 2008. far over the past year or so. pattern that developed in the
NEW page 81
E-reader News Edition E-reader News/ 81
NEW
Intel: Think of the children - give continued from page 80

controls 90 percent of the coming wave of touchscreen

them PCs, not e-readers (The market in e-reader applications
processors.
tablet computers, led by Apple's
iPad, which offer e-reader-like
The technology world has seen functionality along with more
Register) a burst of new players jumping
into the e-reader market,
computing power.
But Burchers said the main
(Yahoo! News Search Results Classmate tablet design aimed at able to access links, cut and providing fresh competition for demographic for e-readers --
for e-readers) school children. paste text and the like. "We market leader Amazon. users in their 40s for whom
Submitted at 3/2/2010 2:46:15 AM The new Classmate runs on an believe in e-learning, not just e- Strong growth is forecast for reading is the main leisure
Atom processor and can run reading." the industry. Research group activity -- ensure that there will
Intel: Think of the children - Windows or Linux. Demo The platform design is designed DisplaySearch expects the always be a market for a
give them PCs, not e-readers models today were running for the K8 market - ie just into global e-reader market to more dedicated device.
Tablets for the kids Windows 7. The touch-sensitive the teens, and should be priced than triple in 2010 to more than He said Freescale's new chip
By Joe Fay at Cebit• Get more r e v e r s i b l e s c r e e n c a n b e at slightly more than the current 14 million units. will be in e-readers on store
from this author "written" on with a stylus, with classmate design, which starts at Analysts say the market is still shelves by the end of the year.
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Intel said school kids need happily chucking the devices to Intel expects local OEMs to will open up even more when
computers, not e-readers, as it the floor as Intel product start shipping Classmate prices fall below $200.
kicked off the Cebit computer managers warned these were products next quarter. ® And some believe the e-reader
show in Hannover this morning. preproduction samples. Free whitepaper – Power and market is already imperiled by a
Apart from the pre-teen crowd, Asked if the device pointed the Cooling Capacity Management
the vendor made a grab for way for Intel's interests in the e- for Data Centers
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Americans, Toyota Owners Still Confident in Toyota Vehicles

(All Gallup Headlines) Americans paying close
Submitted at 3/1/2010 7:00:00 PM attention to the news about
Toyota vehicles are more
PRINCETON, NJ -- Sixty critical of both Toyota and the
percent of Americans believe U.S. government. Among the
Toyota's vehicles are safe, and 26% of Americans who are
61% say they have not lost following the news about
confidence in the automaker Toyota recalls "very closely,"
despite the safety issues that 66% say Toyota and 52% say
have resulted in large-scale the U.S. government did not
recalls of Toyota vehicles. respond fast enough.
Current Toyota owners are even Bottom Line
more positive about the The safety concerns
company's cars -- 74% say they surrounding Toyota vehicles are
have not lost confidence in surely not welcome news for the
Toyota vehicles and 82% think automaker. While Americans
they are safe to ride in. are generally critical of the
"Though most Americans company's response to the
remain confident in Toyota matter, most believe the
vehicles, they are less charitable company's vehicles are safe and
in their views of the way the say their confidence in the
company has handled the automaker has not been
matter." poll attempted to assess the car in the near future, 11% say c o m p a n y h a s h a n d l e d t h e affected. Toyota's sales likely
These results are based on a longer-term impact of the recall they no longer will consider matter. A majority, 55%, say will continue to suffer, but most
new USA Today/Gallup poll, by asking those who plan to buy buying or leasing a Toyota Toyota Motor Corporation did Americans in the car-buying or
conducted Feb. 27-28, as Toyota or lease a car within the next because of the recent recalls; not move quickly enough to leasing market -- and about
confronts safety issues affecting three years whether they would 79% still would. respond to safety issues with its three-quarters of those who
some of its vehicles, most consider Toyota vehicles. In all, This high degree of Toyota vehicles. Most of the rest, 32%, would have considered a Toyota
n o t a b l y f o r u n e x p e c t e d 17% of prospective car buyers loyalty may stem in part from say the response has been about before the recent recalls -- say
acceleration. The company say they will no longer consider the fact that relatively few right. Toyota owners and non- they will still consider buying or
issued recalls for many of its Toyotas because of the recalls. Toyota owners claim to be owners have similar views on leasing a Toyota vehicle.
models to address the problem, But three times as many likely affected by the recalls. Just 14% the question. Survey Methods
which has been attributed to the car buyers, 53%, say they would say their vehicle appeared on the The U.S. government gets Results are based on telephone
vehicles' floor mats and to still consider buying or leasing a r e c a l l l i s t f o r g a s p e d a l slightly better reviews for its interviews with a random
sticky gas pedals. Toyota Toyota, suggesting that there problems, while 70% say their response -- 42% say it did not sample of 2,021 national adults,
executives -- including company remains a potentially large car was not on the list, and 16% move quickly enough to respond aged 18 and older, conducted
President Akio Toyoda -- market for Toyotas in the United are unsure. to Toyota safety issues, only Feb. 27-28, 2010. For results
testified at congressional States. Twenty-nine percent of Most Say Toyota's Response slightly more than the 37% who based on the total sample of
hearings regarding safety and likely U.S. car buyers say they Too Slow say the government's response national adults, one can say with
company practices last week. would not have considered a T h o u g h m o s t A m e r i c a n s has been about right. Toyota 9 5 % c o n f i d e n c e t h a t t h e
Toyota's share of the U.S. auto Toyota even before the recalls. remain confident in Toyota owners and non-owners rate the maximum margin of sampling
market has already suffered Among current Toyota owners vehicles, they are less charitable government's response about the
AMERICANS, page 83
because of the safety issues. The who are likely to buy or lease a in their views of the way the same.
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error is ±3 percentage points.
For results based on the sample
of 495 adults whose household
owns or leases a Toyota or
Lexus vehicle, the maximum
margin of sampling error is ±5
percentage points.
For results based on the sample
of 990 adults whose plan to buy
or lease a vehicle within the
next three years, the maximum
margin of sampling error is ±4
percentage points.
Interviews are conducted with
respondents on land-line
A Bird's Eye View of the Chile Earthquake's
Energy Distribution
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 11:30:28 AM
It's easy to think of tsunamis as
phenomenon that mimic the
behavior of ripples on the
surface of water; you toss a
stone into a pond and the
resulting energy from the splash
moves out away from the
epicenter in a series of even,
concentric circles. But this
NOAA energy distribution map
from the 8.8 magnitude
earthquake in Chile over the
weekend tells a different story.
Though the tsunami threat
telephones and cellular phones.
In addition to sampling error,
question wording and practical
difficulties in conducting
surveys can introduce error or
bias into the findings of public
opinion polls.
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wasn't great - the reddest
portions of the above map
represent only 3-foot-plus waves
- you can really see the way the
energy pushed out away from
the continental shelf, posing the
same threat to islands in the mid
-Pacific and all the way across
the ocean in Asia as it did to
nearby coastal regions along
South America's northern
Pacific coast (though the
PopSci/ 83
immediate coastal areas near the
epicenter did experience some
deadly waves, with the sea
coming as far as two miles
inland in places).
Three-foot surges were reported
in places as far away as
California and small waves hit
shores in Hawaii and then
Japan, though damage in those
places was minimal. It's a
reminder just how powerful and
far-reaching the natural
processes of our blue planet can
be.
[ NOAA, New York Times]
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interface (API), so that third
party developers can access
massive amounts of government
data and create apps that can
offer services such as real-time
or predicted traffic conditions
for buses and trains.
The government API would
launch sometime during the first
half of 2010, and eventually
expand from a website to mobile
platforms.
But as the Korea Times notes,
South Korean officials have not
always smiled so kindly on
independent developers making
"unauthorized use" of public
info.
The popular iKorail app on
Apple's iTunes store shared real-
time train status and schedule
info, at least until state rail
operator Korail blocked the app
An Open Letter to John
Doerr Regarding Bloom
Energy
info@greentechmedia.com
(Greentech Media: Headlines)
Submitted at 3/2/2010 4:00:38 AM
AN OPEN LETTER TO JOHN
DOERR
Dear John,
I want to congratulate you and
all your colleagues at Bloom
Energy. Both for putting on a
great show over the last several
days, but more importantly for
from accessing its Internet
server. Another app called
"Seoul Bus" ran into similar
trouble with a provincial
government for providing real-
time status for buses.
Whether or not the new
government API would allow
for unrestricted access to public
data for anyone remains to be
seen, although that sounds like
the plan. Hopefully South Korea
keeps an open mind on the apps
that it allows, unlike Apple's
rather draconian line.
[via Korea Times]
having the fortitude necessary to
make it to this point. I am sure
that you and KR are acutely
aware that you are standing on
the shoulders of many good
technologists from the past.
Welcome to the energy
business.
I've been in the business, oops,
space -- both clean and not so
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Company Promising Electricity from
Heat (and Vice Versa) Gets $2.7
Million
info@greentechmedia.com
(Greentech Media: Headlines)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 9:34:18 AM
Tempronics, which wants to
make electricity out of hot air
and vice versa, has landed $2.7
million in a Series A round of
funding, the company said
today. Nth Power led the round.
The company specializes in
thermoelectric materials, which
can convert waste heat into
electricity. Potentially, the
material could be wrapped
around pipes in a factory to take
advantage of waste heat.
Conversely, you can insert
electricity (from solar panels or
other sources) into the material
and produce heat, which can be
used to cook with or run chiller-
style air conditioners.
"Thermoelectric devices have
the potential to be lower cost,
more reliable, lighter, smaller
and more environmentally
friendly than many of today's
rotating machines used for
cooling and power generation,
including: compressors, gas
turbines, steam turbines and
electrical generators," said
Tarek Makansi, CEO of
Tempronics in a prepared
statement.
Waste heat and thermoelectrics
could become a big business
someday. The U.S. consumes
100 quads of energy a year, and
approximately 55 to 60 percent
of the total gets dissipated as
waste heat. Companies such as
Recycled Energy Development
have created industrial,
mechanical systems for
harvesting waste heat for
factories. In West Virginia, the
company is working on a project
to generate 45 megawatts of
power from waste heat in a
factory setting.
These mechanical systems,
however, don't scale down
easily. Thermoelectric
companies believe they can
expand the market with their
solid state solutions. Some of
the companies that have
emerged in recent years are
Alphabet Energy, which says its
chips could produce power for
$1 a watt in volume production.
The company, which grew out
of research conducted by ARPA
-E's director Arun Majumdar
while he was at Lawrence
Berkeley National Labs, came
Energy/ 85
out of stealth last year. Its secret
sauce is silicon nanowires,
according to sources: traditional
thermoelectric chips rely on less
efficient bismuth telluride.
GMZ Energy, Promethean
Power, Komatsu and Cypress
Semiconductor are all also
experimenting with
thermoelectric devices. GMZ
and Cypress want to turn heat
into power, while Promethean
converts electricity from PV
panels directly into heat. MIT
researchers, meanwhile, want to
insert quantum dots into laptops
and cell phones that could use
the devices' internally generated
heat to trickle-charge their
batteries. It's power you are
already paying for -- you might
as well get to use it.
MC10 and Photonic Devices
recently received grants from
ARPA-E to develop waste heat
semiconductors. Hmmm. Maybe
ARPA-E and the DOE like this
concept.
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clean -- for almost four decades.
I have to admit that I am a
technology junkie and wouldn't
make a good VC, since I never
met an energy technology or
energy technologist that I didn't
like (well, almost never).
But I'd like to talk to you a little
like a "Dutch Uncle," since you
and Bloom are entering what is
really new territory for you, but
old and familiar to me.
First, the technology is not
really all that disruptive. As a
matter of fact, when Clayton
Christensen published his first
book (1997), he spoke at a local
angel investors group in Palo
Alto. He mentioned that
someone told him "fuel cells
were a new, disruptive
technology for the energy
business." He looked a little
sheepish when I told him that
fuel cells had been around
forever. Yes, the technology
sizzles (metaphorically, I hope),
but there are other ways to get
where you say you are right
now.
For instance, a 650-kilowatt
Caterpillar genset fueled with
natural gas and backed up by a
500-kilowatt diesel genset and
all the necessary electric panels
costs under $1 million. Home
Depot had four similar systems
operating from 2004 to 2006
around New York City. Gas
prices were about $6.50/Mcf
(Mcf = 1000 cubic feet) at the
meter and the cost of generation
was about 10 cents per kilowatt-
hour. Home Depot didn't
purchase any power from
ConEd and saved $30,000 per
year (about 10 percent) for each
of the stores. Last year, natural
gas prices in California to
commercial customers ranged
from about $6.00/Mcf to about
$9.50, so the old-style gensets
are still in the mix to the right
customers.
Each of the Home Depot units
cost about twice what you say
your customers pay for each of
the Bloom Servers, with all the
"price supports." The gensets
use about 60 percent more
natural gas per kilowatt-hour.
But each of the units at The
Home Depot produced more
than six times the amount of
electricity as each of the Bloom
Energy Servers. You can spend
a lot on natural gas for the
savings in capital costs.
So the Bloom Servers really
don't provide such a big
disruption in the business of
distributed power, and maybe
not all that much of a
technology disruption.
They do seem, at least from the
outside, to be providing some
substantial improvements in fuel
cells. It used to be that the size
of solid oxide fuel cells had a
tough time going below about
250 kilowatts because of the
sizing of the steam reformer --
that's the thing that takes the
fuel and chops off the hydrogen
from the methane or
hydrocarbon molecule. It sounds
as though you have pushed that
along pretty well.
I thought General Powell hit on
some really good points.
Developing countries need
power. KR can tell you that the
gensets that Caterpillar and
others supply are a ubiquitous
part of life in most of these
countries. At least ubiquitous for
the elites. There is a fantastic
after-market for refurbished
gensets from the U.S. and
Europe into these countries. So
here again, you'll run into some
obstacles at the pricing points
you currently have. That's not to
say that the Bloom Energy
Server can't contribute. Since
the fuel cell is more forgiving
with respect to the type fuel, the
generation of biogas and
biofuels in developing areas
could be huge. At the right
price.
The military already has some
pretty good substitutes. The M1
battle tank has a 1,500 hp (that's
about 1.2 megawatts) gas
turbine engine. They're
expensive and use a lot of fuel.
But they're also not much bigger
than your box and they have 12
times the output. More
importantly, the Army can have
kids with a high school diploma
fix them in the field with a small
tool kit.
Now for the markets.
About 90 percent of all
commercial buildings have
access to natural gas. This
compares to about 70 percent of
all residential buildings (though
there are 70 million of them).
Both of these markets are really,
really, really big. Lots of
opportunities.
But it's puzzling from what you
said on 60 Minutes -- that you
find this to be an electric utility
play. Yes, it replaces the need
for big power plants. But it uses
natural gas. Let me say that
again.
It uses natural gas.
Not all customers have the
same company deliver natural
gas and electricity. Probably
half the customers have to write
two checks each month. One bill
going to the electric company
and one to the local gas
distribution company. Even
where gas and electric service is
provided by the same company,
they are hardly the same when
you view them from inside the
organizations. There aren't many
CEOs in these companies who
got their start on the gas side of
the business. Certainly, HR in
these companies should check
with legal to see if there could
be any discrimination lawsuits.
The cultures tend to be very
different. I had a friend start out
on the gas side of his company
and later became the COO of
the electric side. He said he
always had a better time on the
gas side of the business than the
electric side.
Please don't take that to mean
that people who run electric
companies are strange. They are
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not. It's just that the businesses
are different. Electric companies
are the most difficult business in
the world to run. Their
customers want electricity when
they want it. That very instant.
And they can't really put any
product into inventory (at least
not very easily).
As far as your comments about
locating Bloom Servers at
electric substations, boy, it's
been a long time since I heard
that. In the early 90s, it was one
of the mantras of the distributed
generation crowd. It never really
took off much. You don't really
find many gas mains close to
electric substations.
So let me come back around to
the beginning. The Bloom
Energy Server looks like a really
neat technology. It isn't, at this
point, something that's going to
knock the market on its ear. But
that's how the energy business
works. You've got something
that you can take to the market
and have at least an even chance
of being heard. That's all you
really need. That and patience.
You should have a clear shot at
the commercial market.
The residential market is
different. If you can get KR to
rework the insides of the box to
be able to serve the variations in
electric, space conditioning, and
hot water that residential
customers need, then the sky's
the limit. Even if you have to
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88 Energy/
Can Sound Waves Reduce Power Consumption?
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(Greentech Media: Headlines)
Submitted at 3/1/2010 3:08:34 PM
It's an air conditioner, but it
works sort of like a loudspeaker.
Palo Alto Research Center
(PARC) has launched an effort
to replace the mechanical
compressors in refrigerators and
air conditioners with
thermoacoustic compressors.
More details will come out at
the ARPA-E Energy Innovation
Summit taking place this week
in Washington, D.C.
Thermoacoustic compressors
essentially compress or expand
gases with high-intensity sound
waves. Compressing gases
generates heat, while letting the
gases expand cools things off.
Think of the chill that gets
created when a carbon dioxide
cartridge is suddenly discharged
and the gas is allowed to
expand.
Mechanical compressors work
on the same principle.
Mechanical compressors,
however, typically only achieve
around 12 percent of the
theoretical maximum.
Thermoacoustic compressors
can triple and more that
efficiency rating because of the
inherent properties of sound
waves. A thermoacoustic
compressor can potentially
complete 10,000 cycles a
second, according to Scott
Elrod, vice president of the
hardware systems laboratory
and head of PARC's green tech
efforts.
"You can do the same thing with
a sound wave, but with more
successive compression and
expansion cycles," said Elrod.
"It would look pretty much like
a speaker but with high intensity
sound waves."
Thermoacoustic compressors
are employed in labs to turn
atmospheric gases like nitrogen
into extremely chilly liquids.
However, that equipment works
best in extreme situations and is
not particularly efficient or
economical for keeping office
buildings at 72 degrees. PARC's
breakthrough lay in devising a
thermoacoustic device for
ambient temperatures.
If it works and can go
commercial, the cooling sound
from PARC could take a
substantial chunk of out U.S.
and even global power
consumption. Cooling-
refrigeration and air
conditioning-account or 17
percent of the energy consumed
in commercial buildings and 20
percent in residences, according
to the 2008 Buildings Energy
Data Book Buildings from the
Department of Energy.
Buildings account for 39 percent
of total U.S. energy
consumption and 76 percent of
the electrical consumption.
If widely deployed in the U.S.,
the technology could reduce
energy consumption for cooling
from 7 BTUS to 4 BTUs, which
translates to a 13 percent
reduction of electricity
consumption in the U.S.,
according to PARC.
Air conditioning may not be as
groovy as electric cars or even
solar, but the field has begun to
attract entrepreneurs and
investors. Ice Energy, which
makes thermal mass (i.e., ice)
powered air conditioners, has
raised nearly $75 million since
2002. The company is currently
trying to convince utilities to
cover the cost of swapping out
existing, inefficient air
conditioners in certain regions
with their units: Ice Energy's Ice
Bear units make the ice at night
and therefore curb peak power
consumption.
Other companies to track:
Chromasun ( solar-powered air
conditioner company founded
by Ausra co-founder Peter Le
Lievre), Calmac(producer of
large-scale ice air conditioners),
Coolerado (a novel system that
extracts heat with mist via the
Maisotsenko Cycle), Optimum
Energy (software for optimizing
air conditioner chiller
performance) and anyone with
desiccant coolers (a gel that
shifts from solid to vapor to
eliminate heat). In some cities
like San Francisco and Seattle,
architects are also exploiting
passive, ambient cooling and
leaving out the AC unit entirely
in new buildings. Last week we
met with EcoThermics, which
says it can generate hot and cold
air from compressing and
releasing carbon dioxide. It
developed the unit for the U.S.
Army after the E.U. passed
regulations mandating that NAT
and other organizations
eliminate air conditioners based
around questionable chemical
refrigerants. See Eleven Cool
Names and Concepts to Watch
In Air Conditioning for more.
PARC has created
computerized simulations and a
basic prototype. Two prototypes
coming in the relatively near
future will hopefully validate
the simulations.
How do they work? Gases are
inserted into a tube filled with
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mesh membranes called
regenerators. As the sound wave
passes through the regenerators,
a low-pressure, low-
temperature/high-pressure, high-
temperature gradient begins to
form. One end gets hot while the
other gets cool. Heat exchangers
can then be used to extract and
exploit the heat or cooling
power.
Like some other green projects
at PARC, the thermoacoustic
coupler can be traced back to
printers and copiers. (This place
used to be Xerox's internal lab
before it got spun out as an
independent subsidiary in 2002.
It's where the PC was invented.)
PARC had once conducted
research on exploiting sound
waves to focus ink-jet droplets,
said Elrod. The idea was to
develop photo quality imaging.
Although promising, Xerox did
not commercialize the
technology.
Research on controlling toner
powder has lead to a spiral that
could one day be used in water
purification or separating algae
from water to make biofuel.
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pair it with one of TJ's [T.J.
Rogers--ed.] solar panels.
But look to the natural gas side
of the business and to the
current HVAC market --
including companies like York,
Trane, etc. -- to install the
systems. They know that market
cold.
Talk to the people in the gas
transmission and supply side.
I'm sure Aubrey McClendon at
Chesapeake will take your call
and can tell you how to make it
happen.
You're going to have a blast
making the business work.
And just one more thing...
Remember, above all, this ain't
the Web.
Rich Hilt / Menlo Park, CA
Bio
In the '70s, Rich was involved
in Corporate Energy
Management at a $2 billion
Fortune 100 Company with
annual energy costs of $100
million. He crawled over
industrial boilers, slogged
through nasty chemical plants,
and changed light bulbs in
manufacturing facilities. To help
increase operational efficiency,
he set up a reporting system to
measure and track energy
consumption and match that
against plant output. He created
a corporate awareness campaign
to better communicate the
importance of reducing energy
use to the average employee.
In the '80s, Rich worked for the
natural gas industry in
Washington during the
industry's period of
deregulation. He helped build
and run a strategic policy
analysis group to position the
industry for a more competitive
environment. This group
became an important player in
D.C. energy policy discussions,
contributing to: the debates on
coal gasification; early
information on how increased
use of carbon would effect
world energy use; the expansion
of natural gas into the electric
power industry; the impact of
proposals for the Clean Act
Amendments of 1991; and the
potential contribution energy
technologies would have on the
economy and the environment.
In the '90s, Rich tried to do the
same for the electric power
industry. He worked to redirect
the strategic position of the
Electric Power Research
Institute in preparation for the
industry's deregulation
activities. After leaving EPRI,
he continued to address industry
policy direction, by writing
several special studies that were
published by McGraw-Hill.
Some of the studies were used
by states in developing
information on the impact that
deregulation would take and on
the legislation the ensued. He
provided benchmarks for the
industry that were useful in
measuring both operational and
financial performance.
Later, he and several other
EPRI expats formed BrightLine
Energy, which focused on the
opportunities that arose from the
deregulated environment. He
was involved in writing business
plans for a variety of energy
related startups, including one
for a unique microturbine
business model.
In the first years of the 21st
century, Rich helped found a
company providing energy to
"big-box retailers." He worked
89
on the Smart Grid (before it was
too smart) in the marketing
department of CellNet Data
Systems.
He was a cofounder of Arare
Ventures -- first time VCs
focused on CleanTech -- that
morphed into LiveFuels, an
algae-to-biofuels science-based
startup. Afterward, he tried to
"jump the chasm" by proposing
to develop a 1,000 hectare algae
farm in Chile. Just as the
financial markets collapsed.
His educational background is
in engineering, economics, and
public policy. Rich is always
looking to help out in greentech
to atone for his past sins. He can
b e r e a c h e d a t
brightline@sbcglobal.net.
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