June 2012
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Eureka! Pentagon Preps Reddit Clone To Inspire... →
The U.S. military has its sights set on Reddit.
The Pentagon plans to create a version of the massively popular social news site, hoping that the crowdsourced discussion platform will surface innovative ideas and solutions to problems big and small.
The Reddit clone is called Eureka and will be part of a bundle of social Web services the military has created—dubbed milSuite—that will mirror...
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Marcus Samuelsson: Is That Your Baby? Growing Up a... →
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Salman Rushdie Video Game: Iran Turns Fatwa... →
Meet “The Stressful Life of Salman Rushdie and Implementation of His Verdict,” an in-progress educational video game inspired by Rushdie’s so-called sin. The concept came out of a student contest held three year ago by the government-funded Iranian Islamic Association of Students, reports The Guardian. Despite difficulties and delays, the game’s development is described in the...
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WikiLeaks CD: Group Says It Will Release an Album... →
WikiLeaks is branching out into the entertainment industry, announcing a CD, called “Beat the Blockade,” intended to raise money to keep the online transparency advocates afloat.
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WatchBoth CNN and Fox News incorrectly reported that the court had shot down Obamacare, with CNN providing a full seven minutes of on-air analysis before realizing their error.
To Jon Stewart’s mind, the collective flub is just the product of media outlets focusing too much on being “today’s grand champion of news-firstiness” instead of, you know, getting the facts right. So on...
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Homeless Students Top 1 Million, U.S. Says,... →
These kids live in shelters and on the streets, and increasingly in hotels and on the couches of friends and relatives. On one hotel-lined stretch of highway — a road leading to Disney World — Nilan heard of schools where there are as many as 25 homeless students in classes of 28.
I'm With Kanye: Selected quotes from the NYT... →
imwithkanye:
A review by Manohla Dargis:
NYT Critics’ Pick
Those cheeks, smooth as a hairless Chihuahua, will receive considerable attention, as will the rippling muscles, thrusting pelvises and the dancing, by turns snaky and acrobatic, that are on generous display in “Magic Mike.”
He takes to the…
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Dark Horse Brewery Turns Down Nickelback... →
Reddit user Talpostal recently posted a March 2010 entry from Dark Horse Brewery’s website, which revealed the operation’s opportunity to have its beer featured in a Nickelback music video. Head brewer Aaron Morse was less than enthusiastic about the prospect.
“I absolutely hate that band,” Morse said today. “It’s s—- rock and roll that doesn’t...
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WatchIs there such a thing as a cruise ship that’s too big?
Smithsonian: A Tour Of The World’s Biggest Cruise Ship
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'Amazing Spider-Man' Reboot Story: Why Sony... →
Reboots of film franchises have been typically launched many more years later than that. But today, “five years is a lifetime in the movie business,” says Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal. “I wasn’t troubled by it.”
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Howard Fineman: Health Care Law: All Hail The... →
Defying the expectations, Justice John Roberts — said to be a relentless conservative activist — joined the court’s “liberal wing” in saving the law by grounding the “individual mandate” not in the power of Congress to regulate commerce, but in its taxing power. As I suggested yesterday, the court essentially said that Congress could not require people...
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JPMorgan Trading Loss Reportedly May Reach $9... →
Shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. tumbled in premarket trading Thursday as a published report said that the bank’s losses on a bad trade may reach as much as $9 billion – far higher than the estimated $2 billion loss disclosed last month.
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“This should be clear by now, but I didn’t do this because it’s good...”
– Obama: Supreme Court Rules On Affordable Care Act
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Brooklyn Mutt: SCOTUS Blog's Amy Howe Explains... →
cheatsheet:
Take a breath and read this slowly. It helped us.
In Plain English: The Affordable Care Act, including its individual mandate that virtually all Americans buy health insurance, is constitutional. There were not five votes to uphold it on the ground that Congress could use its…
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“HuffPost’s Gene Demby reports:
Valerie Jarrett, the White House senior...”
– Ruling Anxiously Awaited By Civil Rights Groups
“Why has the Facebook app been so slow? Because the current version of the app is...”
– Gizmodo’s Casey Chan • Explaining the main problem with Facebook’s iPhone app — it’s not really a native app, so it’s slow. But this is apparently changing, according to Nick Bilton of the NY Times, who says a fully-native app is coming — and it’s fast. (via shortformblog)
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WatchJon Stewart Criticizes Fox News’ Hypocritical Fast & Furious Coverage
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"Women Tennis Players Shouldn't Earn As Much As... →
Gilles Simon, a Frenchman seeded 13th at Wimbledon, told reporters in French that he thinks “men’s tennis is ahead of women’s tennis” and “men spend twice as long on court as women do at Grand Slams.”
He also said men “provide a more attractive show” in their matches.
All four Grand Slam tournaments pay equal prize money to men and women, something...
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Affordable Dental Care Unavailable To One-Third Of... →
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Take The Color Challenge: Could You Be Colorblind? →
While one out of 255 ladies suffer from mild colorblindness, a whopping one in 12 men can’t tell the difference between chartreuse and lemon-mint. Egads!
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“When I met Sheryl the first thing I said was that she had really good skin.”
– Mark Zuckerbeg Introduced Sheryl Sandberg To Facebook Staff By Saying They Should All ‘Have A Crush On’ Her
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IRS To Let Foreign Bank Account Holders To... →
“Today we are announcing a series of common-sense steps to help U.S. citizens abroad get current with their tax obligations and resolve pension issues,” IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said in a statement. The optional procedure just announced is available only to Americans who owe little or no back taxes, not to those who have squirreled away substantial amounts in secret offshore...
Watchanderson:
The One Hashtag Anderson Would Use To Describe His Life (via HuffingtonPost.com)
What hashtag would you use to describe your life?
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Arianna Huffington: Heartbroken in Manhattan -... →
In time, Nora excelled not only as a blogger but as a blogging evangelist, spreading word of the medium’s particular value and making many converts. She quickly grasped that ”one of the reasons for blogging was to start the conversation and to create the community that comes together briefly to talk about things they might not be talking about if you hadn’t written your...
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What Nora Ephron Did For Women →
Nora Ephron died this evening and many of our editors are publishing very personal stories of their memories, chance meetings and long friendships. Here’s just one of those, about what Nora did for modern women.
