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‘Wii Fit’ will definitely get you moving
MSNBC – 48 minutes ago
The mini-games are the most enjoyable part of “Wii Fit” – games that Nintendo claims will help you work on your aerobic strength and balance.
Nintendo Wii Fit launches Today I4U
Nintendo’s Wii Fit Pumps Up ‘Active Gaming’ Trend NPR
CNN – Reuters – Video Game Generation – ABC News
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Facebook CEO Wants to Talk With Google on Friend Connect
PC World – 7 hours ago
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to sit down with Google and work out the privacy issues that caused Facebook to block Google’s Friend Connect last week, he said Monday.
Where Portals and Social Networks Collide BusinessWeek
After Google calls Facebook’s bluff, Zuckerberg says “let’s see if … ZDNet
Washington Post – InformationWeek – PC Magazine – TechNewsWorld
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Study Predicts Fewer but More Powerful Hurricanes
eFluxMedia – 45 minutes ago
By Max Brenn A study published by meteorologist Tom Knutson reveals that global warming could cause the number of hurricanes to get smaller by the end of the century.
Recent Study Shows Global Warming not Related to Hurricanes Enews 2.0
Study says global warming not worsening hurricanes The Associated Press
ChattahBox – BBC News – Reason Online – Sarasota Herald-Tribune
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TopNews

Why I called Mozilla’s change to the Firefox install process “sneaky”
ZDNet Blogs – 51 minutes ago
Seems like some of you objected to my use of the term “sneaky” to describe the change made to the install routine of Firefox 3.0 RC1, while others thought I was being too easy on Mozilla.
Mozilla releases release candidate 1 of Firefox 3 Computerworld
Mozilla unveils Release Candidate 1 for Firefox 3 The Tech Herald
dBTechno – PC World – eFluxMedia – Lifehacker
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VentureBeat

Apple wants over-the-air music downloads for 3G iPhone
Apple Insider – 50 minutes ago
By Sam Oliver Apple is in talks some of the major music labels over a deal that would allow next-generation iPhone owners to purchase music tracks directly from the handset over cellular wireless networks, according to the New York Times.
Apple Wants More Mobile Music From Labels New York Times
Apple in talks on mobile music offerings iLounge
MocoNews – VentureBeat – Macworld UK
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Polar Bear Ruling to Bring Tsunami of Lawsuits: Kevin Hassett
Bloomberg – 6 hours ago
May 19 (Bloomberg) — As expected, the US Department of the Interior added the polar bear to the list of threatened species under the Endangered Species Act last week.

Video: Polar Bears On Thin Ice (CBS News) CBS

Comment by Dr. Peter Ewins Director of Species Conservation , WWF-Canada
eFluxMedia – New York Times – Fairbanks Daily News-Miner – Wall Street Journal
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E Canada Now

Sony: Oz PS3 Outsold 360 By 45% During Q1
Next Generation – 1 hour ago
By Tom Ivan SCE Australia managing director Michael Ephraim says that the PlayStation 3 far outsold Microsoft’s Xbox 360 in Australia during the first quarter of 2008.
Xbox 360 Outsells Original Xbox PC World
Original Xbox sales performance surpassed by Xbox 360 The Tech Herald
dBTechno – Portal IT – eFluxMedia – Punch Jump
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ZDNet

AMD launches ‘console-like’ PC hardware plan
CVG Online – 1 hour ago
AMD is attempting to make determining system requirements easier for mainstream PC gamers, with the launch of a new label titled AMD Play!
AMD – The Perfect Gaming PC Shopping Advisor eFluxMedia
AMD announces new PC gaming push ZDNet
Shacknews – Half Life Source – TG Daily – ZDNet
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ChattahBox

There Must Be More To Mars Than Ice And Dust
eFluxMedia – 4 hours ago
By Dee Chisamera We’re only days away from Phoenix’s encounter with the Red Planet, and all we can think of now is what incredible mysteries about that planet are about to be revealed.
An Icy Dig in Search of Signs of Life on Mars Washington Post
Rauch Planetarium invites public to see ‘live’ Mars landing U Of L News
Astrobiology Magazine – Arizona Republic – Chemical & Engineering News – Tucson Citizen
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CTV.ca

Bender Forms Group to Promote OLPC’s Sugar UI
PC World – May 16, 2008
Former One Laptop Per Child President of software and content Walter Bender has launched Sugar Labs, an organization that will promote the development of the open-source user interface originally developed for the XO laptop.
XP on XO: Negroponte has lost his bearings ZDNet
OLPC Adds Windows XP To XO Laptop InformationWeek
InternetNews.com – eFluxMedia – eWeek – CRN
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Earthtimes (press release)

Sprint Clears WiMax for Launch
eWeek – 8 hours ago
By Roy Mark Sprint kept the WiMax ball moving down the court May 15, declaring its XOHM 3G mobile broadband network has cleared testing and industry standards.
Sprint Says Mobile WiMax Is Ready To Launch In 2008 dBTechno
Sprint Says Mobile WiMAX Is Ready for Commercial Service eFluxMedia
InformationWeek – TeleGeography – InternetNews.com – BetaNews
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TechGadgets.in

Apple lines up overseas iPhone partners
United Press International – May 17, 2008
CUPERTINO, Calif., May 17 (UPI) — Apple Inc. says the popularity of its iPhone is gaining international ground, with new distribution deals in place Saturday for Europe and elsewhere.
Apple Signs More Nonexclusive iPhone Deals InformationWeek
Orange to help Apple expand iPhones overseas San Francisco Chronicle
CRN – Computerworld – Apple Insider – CrunchGear
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Brocktown News

US Reps Markey, Barton Question Charter About Web Tracking
CNNMoney.com – May 16, 2008
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Two senior members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are questioning Charter Communications Inc.’s (CHTR) recent announcement that will collect customers’ Web-surfing information as part of an enhancement to its …
Lawmakers fret about Charter Web tracking plan Reuters
Lawmakers concerned over Charter’s Web tracking The Associated Press
St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Register – Boston Globe – Bizjournals.com
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MySpace Suicide Case Leads To Tougher Laws
eFluxMedia – May 17, 2008
By Michael Todd After the troubling suicide commited by a Missouri teenager due to an Internet related incident, state lawmakers voted and gave final approval yesterday to a bill which will deal with cyber-harassment.
Cyber Bullying Mom Charged in Suicide In MySpace Case CRN
Mom faces 20 years jailtime in ‘cyber-bullying’ MySpace suicide case MemphisRap.com
ToTheCenter.com – Lawrence Journal World – DailyTech – Columbia Daily Tribune
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The Money Times

Russian Craft Reaches Space Station
eFluxMedia – 16 hours ago
By Michael Todd The International Space Station greeted the Russian Progress M-64 cargo spacecraft yesterday and the docking was completed without any incidents.
Russian Cargo Spacecraft Docks At Space Station dBTechno
Russian space craft reaches International Space Station The Tech Herald
Spaceflight Now – The Associated Press – United Press International – Space Com
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Baptist Minister Resigns Amid Sex Scandal
eFluxMedia – May 17, 2008
By Dee Chisamera Joe Barron, the Baptist minister taken into custody on Thursday in a sex sting operation has resigned from his position at the Prestonwood Baptist Church following the scandal, Rev.
Sex scandals in free-church pews GetReligion
Pastor: minister arrested in sex sting resigned The Associated Press
NBC5i.com – KWTX – KDBC – ABC12.com
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eFluxMedia

Look, officer: No hands! (How to talk on cell phone and drive …
San Jose Mercury News – 5 hours ago
Beginning July 1, you must use a hands-free device with your cell phone while driving. Here are some options to consider, from headsets to speaker systems, from Bluetooth wireless to hard-wired.
Aliph launches smaller Jawbone Bluetooth headset The Tech Herald
Aliph Offers You Jawbone 2 eFluxMedia
Boston Globe – about-electronics.eu
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Half Life Source

Study Shows Comcast and Cox Slow P2P Traffic
New York Times – May 16, 2008
By GRANT GROSS, IDG News ServiceWashington Bureau, IDG US cable broadband providers Comcast and Cox Communications are slowing BitTorrent traffic at all times of the day, not just during peak traffic, according to a new study by a German computer …
Cable ISPs block P2P traffic at all hours Inquirer
2008 CABLE SHOW: Comcast Invests In P2P Video Delivery Startup Multichannel News
Half Life Source – BetaNews – PC World – InformationWeek
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CNET Crave Blog

To Touch Or Not To Touch A BlackBerry
eFluxMedia – 2 hours ago
By Dee Chisamera We must admit that ever since the iPhone came out, consumers started asking for more from their phones, and how about that, they get more with every new smartphone that comes out.
IPhone’s Hold on Users Not Exclusive New York Times
BlackBerry, iPhone Raise Mobile Stakes eWeek
MacDailyNews – NetworkWorld.com – CRN – Half Life Source
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Three Sex Offenders Caught on Facebook and MySpace
eFluxMedia – May 17, 2008
By Ona Zachary Three registered sex offenders have been arrested in New Jersey for violating their parole by accessing social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, although a state’s new law restricted their use of the Internet, …
NJ sex offenders charged for MySpace, Facebook use The Associated Press
3 NJ Sex Offenders To Be Charged With Using MySpace,Facebook CNNMoney.com
Asbury Park Press – Gloucester County Times – NJ.com – The Star-Ledger – NJ.com – Newsday
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May 19, 2008

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it's all politics

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Compiled by Jonathan Helman and Mary Grace Lucas, CNN Washington Bureau

Washington Post: Clinton Quiet About Own Radical Ties
When Hillary Rodham Clinton questioned rival Barack Obama’s ties to 1960s radicals, her comments baffled two retired Bay Area lawyers who knew Clinton in the summer of 1971 when she worked as an intern at a left-wing law firm in Oakland, Calif., that defended communists and Black Panthers.

USA Today: GOP departures to cost party millions
The number of Republicans leaving Congress will cost the GOP millions of dollars in party-building funds for the fall congressional elections, campaign-finance records show.

Washington Post: Iran Remains Key Concern as Bush Returns
As he toured the Middle East over the past five days, President Bush tried to shore up support for his strategy of isolating Iran in meetings with the leaders of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian territories. But the one session that did not take place laid bare the problems his administration faces as it tries to persuade its allies to keep the faith.

LA Times: John McCain and Barack Obama Offer Two Visions of the Supreme Court
John McCain and Barack Obama, the two leading presidential candidates, have set out sharply contrasting views on the role of the Supreme Court and the kind of justices they would appoint.

AP: Obama warns seniors on Social Security threats
Democrat Barack Obama told seniors Sunday that Republican John McCain would threaten the Social Security that they and millions like them depend on because he supports privatizing the program.

NY Times: McCain to Rely on Party Money
Pivoting toward the general election, Senator Barack Obama is turning again to his history-making fund-raising machine, which helped to anoint him as a contender against Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and then became a potent weapon in their battle for the Democratic nomination. To confront the Obama juggernaut, Senator John McCain, whose fund-raising has badly trailed that of his Democratic counterparts, is leaning on the Republican National Committee.

May 19, 2008

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the political wires . . .

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Compiled by Jonathan Helman and Mary Grace Lucas, CNN Washington Bureau

May 19, 2008

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Ted Kennedy

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Conflicting reports out of Massachusetts today said Sen. Ted Kennedy, (D-Mass.,) suffered an apparent seizure. I hope he recovers. He’s one of our best fighters.

It was both a tragic and triumphant time on the public stage for the liberal lion. And I’m not talking about the death of his brothers. Mainly I refer to the young woman he caused to die and the dissolution of his first marriage.

I am sharing this speech because it exemplifies both his promise and his weakness. It came at the end of a vainglorious and doomed run for the presidential nomination against a president of his own party (he was largely blamed for Jimmy Carter’s loss in 1980, although I think Carter did not do much to help himself in that race.

In giving up the run, Kennedy gave one of the best speeches in the history of American political rhetoric.

1980 Democratic National Convention Address

Delivered 12 August 1980, New York, NY

Ted Kennedy at the 1980 Democratic Party National Convention

Thanks very much, Barbara Mikulski, for your very eloquent, your eloquent introduction. Distinguished legislator, great spokeswoman for economic democracy and social justice in this country, I thank you for your eloquent introduction.

Well, things worked out a little different from the way I thought, but let me tell you, I still love New York.

My fellow Democrats and my fellow Americans, I have come here tonight not to argue as a candidate but to affirm a cause.

I’m asking you — I am asking you to renew the commitment of the Democratic Party to economic justice.

I am asking you to renew our commitment to a fair and lasting prosperity that can put America back to work.

This is the cause that brought me into the campaign and that sustained me for nine months across a 100,000 miles in 40 different states. We had our losses, but the pain of our defeats is far, far less than the pain of the people that I have met.

We have learned that it is important to take issues seriously, but never to take ourselves too seriously.

The serious issue before us tonight is the cause for which the Democratic Party has stood in its finest hours, the cause that keeps our Party young and makes it, in the second century of its age, the largest political Party in this republic and the longest lasting political Party on this planet.

Our cause has been, since the days of Thomas Jefferson, the cause of the common man and the common woman.

Our commitment has been, since the days of Andrew Jackson, to all those he called “the humble members of society — the farmers, mechanics, and laborers.” On this foundation we have defined our values, refined our policies, and refreshed our faith.

Now I take the unusual step of carrying the cause and the commitment of my campaign personally to our national convention. I speak out of a deep sense of urgency about the anguish and anxiety I have seen across America.

I speak out of a deep belief in the ideals of the Democratic Party, and in the potential of that Party and of a President to make a difference. And I speak out of a deep trust in our capacity to proceed with boldness and a common vision that will feel and heal the suffering of our time and the divisions of our Party.

May 17, 2008

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Obama seeks focus on end of primary campaign

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EUGENE, Oregon (AP) — Attempting to lay a symbolic claim to his party’s presidential nomination, Democrat Barack Obama will mark the latest round of primary voting with a rally in Iowa, where his solid win in January caucuses propelled him to his status as the front-runner.

Obama was campaigning Saturday for primaries Tuesday in Oregon and Kentucky as his aides announced the rally on primary night in Iowa, which they described as “a critical general election state that Democrats must win in November.”

Rival Hillary Rodham Clinton has a strong lead in polls in Kentucky, but Obama has the advantage in Oregon.

Obama has built a solid lead in Democratic National Convention delegates over Clinton, and is working overtime to cast an image of inevitability to his campaign for the nomination. In recent days, he has spent more time focused on his differences with certain Republican nominee John McCain than sparring with Clinton.

Iowa has been a swing state in recent elections. Democrat Al Gore narrowly carried the state in 2000, and President Bush collected the state’s seven electoral votes by just over 10,000 votes in 2004. Since that time, however, Democrats have build a substantial edge in registered voters, and turnout in the January precinct caucuses was at record levels.
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May 17, 2008

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Florida, Michigan cannot save Clinton

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Michigan and Florida alone can’t save Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign.

Interviews with those considering how to handle the two states’ banished convention delegates found little interest in the former first lady’s best-case scenario. Her position, part of a formidable comeback challenge, is that all the delegates be seated in accordance with their disputed primaries.

Even if they were, it wouldn’t erase Barack Obama’s growing lead in delegates.

The Democratic Party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, a 30-member panel charged with interpreting and enforcing party rules, is to meet May 31 to consider how to handle Michigan and Florida’s 368 delegates.

Last year, the panel imposed the harshest punishment it could render against the two states after they scheduled primaries in January, even though they were instructed not to vote until Feb. 5 or later. Michigan and Florida lost all their delegates to the national convention, and all the Democratic candidates agreed not to campaign in the two states, stripping them of all the influence they were trying to build by voting early.

But now there is agreement on all sides that at least some of the delegates should be restored in a gesture of party unity and respect to voters in two general election battlegrounds.

Clinton has been arguing for full reinstatement, which would boost her standing. She won both states, even though they didn’t count toward the nomination and neither candidate campaigned in them. Obama even had his name pulled from Michigan’s ballot.

The Associated Press interviewed a third of the panel members and several other Democrats involved in the negotiations and found widespread agreement that the states must be punished for stepping out of line. If not, many members say, other states will do the same thing in four years.

“We certainly want to be fair to both candidates, and we want to be sure that we are fair to the 48 states who abided by the rules,” said Democratic National Committee Secretary Alice Germond, a panel member unaligned with either candidate. “We don’t want absolute chaos for 2012.

“We want to reach out to Michigan and Florida and seat some group of delegates in some manner, at least most of us do. These are two critical states for the general (election) and the voters of those states who were not the people who caused this awful conundrum to occur deserve our attention and deserve to be a part of our process and deserve to be at the convention,” she said.

May 17, 2008

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British Army faces public inquiry over Baha Mousa death

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by Aislinn Simpson, 5/15/2008

The British Army will face a public inquiry over the torture and subsequent death of an Iraqi hotel worker in its custody, the Defence Secretary confirmed on Wednesday.

The Defence Secretary Des Browne said in a written statement to Parliament that a public enquiry would ensure lessons could be learned.

Baha Mousa suffered 93 separate injuries and died of asphyxia while he was held by the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment at a British Army base in Basra in September 2003.

Seven members of the QLR faced court martial over the incident but all were eventually acquitted, including QLR commanding officer Colonel Jorge Mendonca.

One, Corporal Donald Payne, 35, became the first British serviceman to admit a war crime, that of treating Iraqi prisoners inhumanely and was jailed for a year.

Mr Mousa’s family and eight other Iraqis held in custody launched a claim for compensation through the British courts and the Government admitted it breached the 26-year-old father of two’s human rights and would pay damages.
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May 17, 2008

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Idiot right wing talk-show host

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Chris Matthews, who can be quite an idiot himself, was on the side of the angels in this encounter. He quickly figured out that Kevin James, the right wing nut job he had on his MSNBC show, did not know what he was talking about, even as he was trying to smear Sen. Barack Obama.

May 17, 2008

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McCain=Hypocrite

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The Young Turks talk about McCain

May 17, 2008

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Thumbs on the scale

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FROM MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA
During a speech to the Israeli parliament yesterday morning, President Bush attacked Barack Obama, comparing him to Nazi appeasers for the Illinois senator’s willingness to hold discussions with Iran.
One problem: Bush’s speech came just hours after The Washington Post reported that Bush’s defense secretary, Robert Gates, said that the United States needs to “sit down and talk with” Iran. Not only that, Gates added, “We can’t go to a discussion and be completely the demander.”
Oops.

McCain Was For Talking To Hamas: Before He Was Against It…

Naturally, then, a media firestorm erupted, with the Bush administration and its political allies questioned all day about whether Bush has any idea what he is talking about, whether he has lost control over the Pentagon, whether Gates will be fired, what Gates thinks about Bush’s comparison of those (like Gates) who advocate dialogue between the United States and Iran to appeasers of Adolf Hitler, and whether the fiasco will remind voters that the Bush administration’s foreign policy has been marked by incompetence and dishonesty, thus doing irreparable electoral damage to John McCain and other Republican candidates.
Sorry — what was I thinking? That didn’t happen.
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May 16, 2008

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