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By David Morgan (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:59:03 AM
President Barack Obama visits
New York State today. But the
first black U.S. president may not
get a very warm welcome from
New York’s first black governor.
That’s because the White House
wants Gov. David Patterson to
end his tenure in office, believing
he is too embattled to remain at
the top of the state Democratic
ticket, according to U.S. media
reports.
The White House and national
Democrats are worried that
Patterson’s low poll numbers
could drag down other Democrats
in next year’s congressional
elections.
Not that Obama cares much
about warm receptions from
Patterson. The president snubbed
Patterson during his visit to Wall
Street last week by failing to
invite the governor to the high
profile event in his own state.
Instead of an invitation,
Patterson got a meeting with
White House political director
Patrick Gaspard, who told him
Obama had lost faith in his ability
to win election in 2010, the New
York Times reported.
Patterson was lieutenant
governor until March 2008, when
he unexpectedly rose to the helm
of the state government after
former Gov. Eliot Spitzer
resigned in a prostitution scandal.
Some New York Democrats are
said to be angry about what they
view as heavy handed White
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Dell buys Perot Systems in
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Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:52:28 AM Dell, based in Round Rock,
Texas, said in its August earnings
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) report that it expects stronger
-- Computer maker Dell will sales in the second half of the
acquire information-technology year, though it has seen sector-
company Perot Systems for $3.9 wide weak PC demand.
billion in cash, the companies said Average sales prices on PCs
Monday. have been falling sharply,
Once the purchase is complete, n a r r o w i n g p r o f i t m a r g i n s .
Perot ( PER) will become Dell's ( Consequently, Dell's quarterly
DELL, Fortune 500) services unit, sales were down 22% to $12.76
a press release said. billion from $16.43 billion a year
Dell plans to buy Perot for $30 ago.
per share, 67% higher than the IT Also in its earnings report, Dell
firm's Friday closing price of said it has redesigned about 70%
$17.91. of its products as part of a $4
The deal is expected to be billion cost-cutting plan launched
House tactics. But others
welcome the move. completed during Dell's fiscal last year.
fourth quarter ending in January.
Meanwhile, Patterson has dug in
his heels and hired a campaign Perot will remain based in Plano,
manager who worked for the Tenn. man swept away as Mass. Senate to debate
Obama campaign. rain drenches Southeast Kennedy succession bill
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September 20, 2009 By JAMES
T. MADORE, TOM BRUNE,
REID J. EPSTEIN AND
DANIEL EDWARD ROSEN
reid.epstein@newsday.com
Photo credit: Craig Ruttle | Gov.
David Paterson shakes hands on
Sunday during the African
American Day Parade in Harlem.
Gov. David A. Paterson vowed
Sunday to seek election in 2010
despite alleged pressure to drop
his bid from President Barack
Obama and others alarmed by his
dismal poll numbers.
“I have said time and time again
that I am running for governor
next year,” Paterson said at a
parade in Harlem. “My plans have
not changed.”
-- PHOTOS: Paterson marches
in the African-American Day
Parade
Paterson was responding to
reports of Obama’s request that he
not pursue the Executive
Mansion, delivered by Rep.
Gregory Meeks (D-Queens) on
Friday. The governor didn’t deny
receiving the message, only
saying, “I am not going to discuss
confidential conversations.”
Meeks could not be reached, but
a Democratic Party source
confirmed the topic of the dinner
conversation. A Paterson aide also
said White House political affairs
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director Patrick Gaspard met with
the governor last Monday to
discuss worries that Republicans
will win key state and
congressional seats because of
him.
Democrats now control both
houses of the State Legislature
first time since 1935. But the
party’s domination is tenuous
with a two-seat majority in the
State Senate and the offices of
governor, comptroller and junior
U.S. senator held by appointees.
Also, if the GOP regains the State
Senate next year, it would be able
to redraw districts for the
legislature and House of
Representatives, preserving power
for a decade.
Marist College pollster Lee M.
Miringoff said the White House
was concerned about the bleak
election prospects of U.S. Sen.
Kirsten Gillibrand, who was
tapped by Paterson over Obama
favorite Caroline Kennedy to
succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton.
A Gillibrand loss could rob
Democrats of their ability to
thwart Republican filibusters in
the Senate. “It would be a disaster
if were to lose the Senate seat,”
Miringoff said.
Paterson said he hadn’t yet
spoken with Obama about the
2010 elections. In what could be
an awkward moment, the pair will
be at Hudson Valley Community
College in Troy Monday.
An official in the Obama
administration said Sunday, “It’s
no secret that Democrats in New
York are very concerned about
the situation. We share those
Thousands of Cubans filled
Revolution Square in Havana
concerns and those concerns have
been conveyed in an appropriate
way.” However, the official said
the White House had not “ordered
out of the race.”
In a poll released last week,
Marist College said 70 percent of
voters don’t want Paterson to run.
Some Democratic leaders
privately expressed relief at
Obama’s move, saying it would
clear the way for state Attorney
General Andrew Cuomo to run
for governor. Cuomo, so far, has
said he plans to seek re-election as
attorney general, though Marist
found he would defeat Paterson in
a primary and former New York
City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a
Republican, in the general
election.
Still, Obama, the first African-
American president, urging
Paterson, the state’s first African-
American governor, to stand
down may not be enough for
Cuomo. He angered African-
Americans in 2002 with an
unsuccessful challenge to H. Carl
McCall, the party favorite for
governor that year.
Suffolk Democratic chairman
Richard Schaffer said it was only
a matter of time before Paterson
bows out of the 2010 race. “He or
his people are putting in motion
what everybody’s been thinking
about.”
Meanwhile, Edward Cox, the
soon-to-be state GOP chairman,
said Obama’s “unprecedented
meddling . . . is a sign of
Democratic weakness and the
potential for Republican victories
here.”
Possible New York
yesterday for a campaigning
concert
gubernatorial candidates in 2010:
Democrats
David A. Paterson
Position: Governor
Public stance on running: “I am
running for governor,” he said
Sunday.
Campaign cash on hand: $5.44
million.
Strategy: Keep hanging on,
hope lightning strikes. Use clout
as titular state party leader to
access resources needed to win.
Outlook: Not good. A Marist
Poll released last week showed
Paterson with a 20 percent
approval rating and badly trailing
possible foes Andrew Cuomo(70-
24) and Rudy Giuliani(60-34).
Andrew Cuomo
Position: Attorney General.
Public stance on running: Says
he’s running for attorney general.
Campaign cash on hand: $10.11
million.
Strategy: Say nothing, stay alert
to action around him and wait to
make move at the right time.
Outlook: Couldn’t be better.
Marist’s poll found voters —
especially Democrats —
overwhelmingly want Cuomo to
run for governor and support him
against each of the other three
presumed candidates.
Marist found that 69 percent of
New Yorkers approve of the job
Cuomo has done.
Republicans
Rudy Giuliani
Position: former New York City
mayor.
Public stance on running: Says
he’s making decision this fall.
Campaign cash on hand:
$7,245.
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Strategy: Cash in on lingering
star power in party; draw centrist
Democrats who may embrace his
pitch that he is a strong manager.
Outlook: He represents best
GOP chance, polls show, even if
he has yet to win a race otside
New York City and recently came
out on losing side of state party
leadership fight.
Rick Lazio
Position: Former GOP
congressman (R-Brightwaters).
Public stance on running:
Formally announcing campaign
tomorrow.
Campaign cash on hand:
$184,333.
Strategy: Present self as the
fiscally conservative reformer
which others have proven not to
be.
Outlook: He needs to raise a lot
of cash and work to make people
forget his failed 2000 U.S. Senate
run against Hillary Rodham
Clinton. Needs to improve name
recognition and prove he has the
heft for the job.
-- PHOTOS: Paterson marches
in the African-American Day
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Marine charged with faking war wounds for gain (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) annually to the FBI and civilian to fete wounded warriors. unearned Purple Heart and other with other VIPs and shotgun
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:27:38 AM groups about impostors flaunting He faked post-traumatic stress decorations. Tazewell falsely manufacturing executives.
store-bought medals. disorder in hopes of leaving claimed he had rescued six "I accepted his story at face
SABILLASVILLE, Md. – On a Their very prevalence exposes service early and was sent to the Marines and recovered the bodies value," Boomer said. "Nothing
sultry day in July 2008, Marine something else a nation so eager National Naval Medical Center in of four others in Iraq. that I recall would have set off
Sgt. David W. Budwah strode in to embrace its war fighters, Bethesda, where he bluffed his Prosecutors portrayed him as a alarm bells."
his battle fatigues to the front of a especially the wounded, that it way into 33 events from late July failing sailor so desperate to Budwah again managed his way
picnic pavilion to tell three dozen s o m e t i m e s f a i l s t o d i s c e r n through November 2008, remain in service that he to the center of attention at a
young boys what he did during between the real heroes and the according to charges obtained by fabricated the story. September 2008 boxing event in
the war. fakes. The Associated Press through an Navy corpsman Robert White, Glen Burnie, Md. Organizer Scott
With his clear gaze, rigid "In every society in history, the appeal of its Freedom of got 45 days in the brig after Wagner said the highlight of the
posture and muscled, tattooed warrior is glorified," said phony- Information Act request. pleading guilty in December at night was when he brought
arms, Budwah looked every inch hero debunker B.G. "Jug" Burkett Bethesda hospital spokesman Great Lakes Naval Station, Ill., to Budwah and dozens of other
the hero he claimed to be. He said of Plano, Texas. "The second you Chris Walz said the staff tries to wearing a Purple Heart he bought. military hospital patients into the
he was on his second tour of duty say you're a warrior who has involve as many patients as A former girlfriend testified ring for a standing ovation.
in Afghanistan when a homemade performed heroically in combat, possible in such activities, which White obtained the medal after he "Were they injured or not? I
grenade exploded, wounding his e v e r y b o d y p e r c e i v e s y o u range from free NFL tickets to was shunned by his peers for don't know and I really don't care.
face and arm when he dove to d i f f e r e n t l y . " speaking engagements like assaulting her, the Navy Times If half of them were injured, I still
shield a buddy from the blast. Burkett, 65, a Vietnam veteran Budwah's at Camp West Mar. reported. feel good about it," he said.
"We're here to make sure of the and author of the 1998 book, " The charges include making People fabricate military A year after Budwah's speech to
freedom you have every day," Stolen Valor," said the urge to false official statements, injuries for many reasons, the youngsters at the American
Budwah told his audience at honor the wounded can cloud a malingering, misconduct and including laziness, greed, Legion camp, Spencer Shoemaker
Camp West Mar, a wooded person's judgment. larceny. Budwah faces up to 31 sympathy and psychosis, said sat stunned in the family's kitchen
American Legion compound "I tell reporters that when you've 1/2 years in prison and a Loren Pankratz of Oregon Health as he read the charges against his
about 60 miles northwest of got a guy who's vocal 'Let me tell dishonorable discharge if & Science University, who wrote Marine idol for the first time.
Washington. you how I won my Silver Star' convicted on all eight counts at a about PTSD impostors in his Shoemaker, then 10, was so
But the Marines say Budwah is your antenna should go up," trial set for Oct. 20. at Quantico. book, "Patients Who Deceive." impressed he had his picture taken
a liar, a fraud and a thief. They are Burkett said. "The real guys Budwah, who declined to enter "A more common theme would with Budwah and kept a treasured
court-martialing the 34-year-old typically don't talk about it." a plea at his Aug. 5 arraignment, be somebody who would newspaper clipping about the
Springhill, La., native, alleging he Budwah's case is remarkable denied wrongdoing in a brief represent sort of the antihero the visit. He said Budwah's talk made
was never in Afghanistan, wasn't because he is an active-duty telephone interview in April. "The guy who's given his all and yet him want to join the Marines.
wounded and didn't earn the Marine facing military justice, not allegation is not even true," he been abused and misunderstood," "Well, it's better that I know,"
combat medals he wore or the a civilian charged with wearing said, declining to comment Pankratz said. the boy said after a long silence.
many privileges he enjoyed. unearned medals. Of nearly 3,100 further. Burkett said others are simply "It did tear me down, but I'll still
Budwah joined the Marines in courts-martial last year in the four Defense attorney Marine Capt. con men. join the Marines."
October 1999 and spent nearly all major armed services, only 27 Kelly Repair and prosecutor Walter E. Boomer, who served His father Michael, a
of the next six years with a radio were trials for wearing illegal Marine Capt. Thomas Liu also as assistant commandant of the construction worker, seethed at
communications unit in Okinawa, decorations. Just two involved have declined to comment. Marine Corps from 1992 to 1994, the news about Budwah.
Japan, according to the Marine Marines. Recent prosecutions of active- vaguely remembers meeting "He scammed America,"
Corps Base in Quantico, Va., Prosecutors say Budwah wore duty service members include Budwah in November when they Shoemaker said. "He scammed a
where Budwah has been stationed unauthorized medals and accepted Dontae L. Tazewell, a Navy were guests at a Grand National kid."
since February 2006. VIP invitations to rock concerts, hospital corpsman sentenced in Waterfowl Association benefit on
Phony heroes aren't unusual. major-league baseball games, January 2008 in Norfolk, Va., to Maryland's Eastern Shore. They
Thousands of complaints pour in banquets and other events meant two years in prison for wearing an shot at ducks, drank and dined
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Emmy 2009 Winners List Includes Familiar Names: '30 Rock,'

'Mad ... - MTV.com
(Most Popular - Google News) Actor in a Comedy Series for his Middle" dad Bryan Cranston also doing a song and dance number Charles Dickens serial novel that
Submitted at 9/21/2009 7:02:20 AM role as network boss Jack made it a two-fer, winning Best called "Put Down the Remote," in aired on PBS and won seven
Donaghy. "I'd trade this to look Actor in a Drama Series for which he pleaded with viewers to Emmys over the course of the
Even though he wasn't at Sunday like him," Baldwin joked of "Breaking Bad," in which he stick with the show after last night, including Best Miniseries.
night's 61st Annual Primetime presenter Rob Lowe. plays a terminally ill chemistry year's Emmys brought the lowest Other winners included "Wizards
Emmy Awards, Kanye West still Justin Timberlake showed up to teacher-turned-crystal-meth- ratings in history thanks to an ill- of Waverly Place" for Best
loomed large over the event. collect his previously awarded cooker. Another repeat winner informed decision to have a Children's Program; the Harris-
While critically acclaimed TV Best Guest Actor in a Comedy was "Amazing Race," which beat rotating group of reality-show starring "Dr. Horrible's Sing-
shows like "30 Rock" and "Mad Series Emmy for his guest-stint the competition in the Reality stars host the program. Harris not Along Blog" for Best Short-
Men" were scooping up repeat on "Saturday Night Live." This Competition Program for the only proved his "Dr. Horrible" Format Live-Action
wins, jokes about West's stage- was the first time "SNL" hosts seventh straight year. "The Daily singing chops were still strong, he Entertainment Program; MTV's
busting outburst at the previous have been eligible for that award. Show" also made it seven straight also kept the evening moving with 2008 Video Music Awards for
week's VMAs were par for the He took home the prize for, with a win for Outstanding a series of crisp jokes and Best Art Direction for a Variety,
course. among other memorable Variety Series. comically uncomfortable Music or Nonfiction
Among the surprise winners moments, his unforgettable ode to Michael Emerson, who plays exchange with his competition in Programming; "South Park" for
were Australian actress Toni cougars, "Motherlover." He, of the creepy, not-to-be-trusted the Best Supporting Actor in a Best Animated Program and
Collette, who beat out "30 Rock" course, also dropped a Kanye Benjamin Linus on "Lost" won Comedy Series, Jon Cryer. Bruce Gowers of "American Idol"
star Tina Fey in the Best Actress reference while picking up the for a second time in the Best After Cryer won his first trophy for Best Directing for a Variety,
in a Comedy Series for her role as trophy, telling fellow Guest Actor Supporting Actor in a Drama in four tries for his work in the Music or Comedy Series.
a w o m a n w i t h m u l t i p l e in a Comedy Series winner Tina category, eight years after first popular "Two and a Half Men," Even when the winners weren't
personalities in Showtime's Fey, "Imma let you finish." taking the award for his guest Harris dialed him up on the big household names, such as veteran
"United States of Tara" (written "Samantha Who" star Christina work on "The Practice." screen while Cryer was talking to actor Ken Howard, who won for
by "Juno" and "Jennifer's Body" Applegate joked on the preshow, There were a few fresh faces on the press backstage and needled Best Supporting Actor in a
scribe Diablo Cody). Collette was "I just have to wonder: Who's the stage, though, including him about the win, making him Miniseries for his work in the
almost upstaged, however, by gonna pull a Kanye?" She was Kristin Chenoweth — who, like double-check the envelope to HBO drama "Grey Gardens,"
fellow nominee Sarah Silverman, followed a few minutes later by a host Harris, will be a guest judge make sure it really had his name their speeches touched on
who grabbed the spotlight by similar joke from "Survivor" host on the upcoming season of in it. "I used to think that awards universal themes. "This is very
sporting a fake mustache during Jeff Probst. "American Idol" — who won were just shallow tokens of encouraging," first-time nominee
the reading of the nominees and Speaking of repeats, the 1960s Best Supporting Actress in a momentary popularity," Cryer Howard said, praying that he
breaking awards-show etiquette advertising drama "Mad Men" Comedy Series for the canceled joked during his acceptance wouldn't be "interrupted by
by pretending to be put out when snagged the Best Drama Series "Pushing Daisies." Chenoweth, speech. "But now — [I realize] congressmen or rappers."
she didn't make the cut. award for a second year in a row, who was later taken to the they are the only true measure of The incomparable Dan
"30 Rock" nabbed the Best though its cast was shut out in the hospital for a migraine-related a person's real worth as a human Castellaneta won Outstanding
Comedy Series award for the third acting categories and it won in incident, joked during her being." Voice-Over Performance for his
year in a row, beating out such just three of the 16 categories for acceptance speech, "I'm Viewers voted online for the many characters on "The
buzzed-about contenders as which it was nominated. Another unemployed now, so I'd like to be Breakthrough Moment of the Simpsons," including Homer
"Flight of the Conchords," repeat winner was Glenn Close, on 'Mad Men.' I also like 'The Year, which was awarded to a Simpson and Krusty the Clown,
"Weeds," host Neil Patrick Harris' who took home Best Actress in a Office' and '24.' " Another first- scene from HBO's vampire and beating out fellow cast members
"How I Met Your Mother" and Drama for her take on a tough timer was actress Cherry Jones, shape-shifters drama, "True Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer,
the first animated series to get the l a w y e r i n t h e F X d r a m a who won Best Supporting Actress Blood." as well as "Family Guy" boss Seth
nod in nearly 50 years, "Family "Damages," a role Close called in a Drama for her role as the The night's biggest winner was MacFarlane and voice of "Robot
G u y . " F e y ' s c o - s t a r , A l e c "the character of my lifetime." president on "24." the public television mini-series Chicken," Seth Green.
Baldwin, also took home Best Former "Malcolm in the The show opened with Harris "Little Dorritt," an adaptation of a
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ARLINGTON, Tex. This game
had a little bit of everything and a
lot of people to see it. The crowd
of 105,121 was a regular-season
record for the N.F.L. on a night of
celebration for Texas football
culture.
It was the first official game in
the new Cowboys Stadium, a
sports palace showy even by 21st-
century standards. Among the
witnesses for America’s team
were former president George W.
Bush and various entertainment
celebrities. There was music,
dancing, boasting, and also
fireworks, appropriate for the
action that followed.
Along with a national television
audience, the fans saw the lead go
back and forth. On the field and
on the gigantic television above it,
they saw the Cowboys commit
four turnovers. And they saw the
Giants and their quarterback, Eli
Manning, struggle again when
they got close to the opposing
goal line.
But they also saw Manning find
a groove with receivers Steve
Smith and Mario Manningham.
Trailing by a point with the
seconds ticking away, Manning
led them down the field to a 33-31
Giants victory on a 37-yard field
goal by Lawrence Tynes as time
expired, and as quiet ensued.
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linebacker Antonio Pierce
discussed the sound of silence.
“We appreciate 100,000 people
cheering us on,” Pierce said. “We
enjoyed watching ourselves on the
TV.”
It was Tynes’s fourth field goal
in five tries. That’s not counting
the good one he kicked just before
the end that was nullified because
Dallas called a timeout right
before he kicked it. He seemed
almost happy about getting
another chance.
“I didn’t hear the whistle; I
didn’t hit the first one that good,”
Tynes said. “I scored the first and
last points tonight. That’s why I
ran after that ball.”
He pointed to his locker, where
his souvenir rested.
The night was warm, and both
teams played like boxers throwing
haymakers in the late rounds of a
brutal bout. “Everyone was tired,”
Manning said. “It was hot. It was
a long game. Everyone did a great
job of gutting it out.”
Manning was one of them,
completing 25 of 38 passes for
330 yards and 2 touchdowns, one
each to Manningham and Smith,
both for 22 yards. Both receivers
caught 10 passes, Manningham
for 150 yards and Smith for 134.
Smith’s touchdown, early in the
fourth quarter, gave the Giants a
27-24 lead. He caught it at the
Dallas 5-yard line and dived into
the end zone. Manningham caught
his earlier, with 46 seconds left in
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the second quarter, for a 20-14
lead.
Manningham said he lost the
ball in the lights but caught it as
he fell and it bounced off his
body. “I should have caught it on
the first one,” he said.
Manningham and Smith helped
answer one of the season’s
pressing questions: Who would
replace Plaxico Burress and
Amani Toomer?
Manning said Manningham
spoke up during the spring to
insist on more work for his second
season, sending Manning text
messages and calling him on the
phone to ask how to get better.
“He wanted to watch film,”
Manning said. “He worked
extremely hard. He has a great
grasp of the offense. He’s an
explosive receiver, and some of
that talent’s coming out.”
On defense, the Giants gave up
378 net yards, some of it because
they lost Justin Tuck, their star
defensive end, to a shoulder injury
when he was tripped by Flozell
Adams and knocked to the turf in
the second quarter.
Although Adams was penalized
and the foul negated a big gain for
Dallas, it was not enough
punishment in Tuck’s estimation.
“I think it was bush-league, he did
it a few times,” Tuck said. “I
would have liked to have had the
rest of the game to punish him for
it.”
Tuck’s arm was in a sling. His
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line has already lost Jay Alford to
knee surgery, and Chris Canty
missed this game with a calf
injury. The secondary is also
battered but made several big
plays.
Two of them were interceptions
by Kenny Phillips. One was an
interception by Bruce Johnson
that he ran back for a 34-yard
touchdown. Phillips, who almost
missed the game with a knee
injury, almost had a touchdown,
too.
When Tony Romo’s pass hit the
hand of Jason Witten, it bounced
down but hit Witten’s foot and
went to Phillips, who raced to the
end zone even though an official
blew a whistle thinking it was
incomplete.
When Phillips was asked if he
was the only one in the building
who realized it was a live ball, he
replied, “I was hoping one of the
refs knew.” The officials looked
at a replay and awarded the Giants
possession at the Dallas 28, but no
score.
That drive ended in
Manningham’s touchdown.
Technically, the Giants failed to
score touchdowns all five times
they had the ball in the Dallas red
zone inside the Cowboys’ 20
although the last drive was
primarily to set up a field goal.
Still, Manning groused about
this chronic difficulty and vowed
to improve it. The result left the
Giants 2-0 and the Cowboys 1-1
5
in their early jockeying for
position in the National Football
Conference East.
Just before the Giants’ winning
drive, the Cowboys had retaken
the lead, 31-30, with 3 minutes 40
seconds left in the fourth quarter
on a 7-yard run by Felix Jones.
“I knew they left too much
time,” Tynes said.
Jones had replaced Marion
Barber, who could have scored on
the previous play had he not fallen
at the 7 with an apparent leg
injury after a 35-yard gain.
Barber gained 124 yards on 18
carries, and scored an early
touchdown. Jones rushed for 96
yards and the late touchdown on
seven carries. Danny Clark, the
Giants’ strongside linebacker,
noted, “It was not pretty
whatsoever.”
Coach Tom Coughlin agreed,
but added: “Heck of a football
game. It’s a full, 60-minute
game.”
EXTRA POINTS
Giants wide receiver Domenik
Hixon left the game with a knee
injury sustained on his first
reception. Michael Boley played
many downs at weakside
linebacker, his first game in a
Giants uniform, and had seven
tackles.
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Dell's $3.9 billion
(BBC News | Americas | World And will the Nato allies give more strategy which makes its top a Kabul bomb attack last week.
Edition) help? This must be doubtful. priority the protection of the And the future of German troops acquisition
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:36:52 AM A senior adviser to Afghan Afghan people. in Afghanistan has become a
President Hamid Karzai said the In the report Gen McChrystal central issue in Germany's By Paul Foster
The US mission in Afghanistan government was not against more also: election campaign. (BloggingStocks)
will "likely result in failure" international troops being sent - Submitted at 9/21/2009 8:00:00 AM
• Provides new details about the The Washington Post says that
unless troops are increased within but their success would depend on sophisticated nature of the Taliban the report has been presented to
a year, the top general there has where they were sent. Filed under: Dell (DELL),
insurgency US Defence Secretary Robert Options
said in a report. "Our official stance is that until • Criticises Nato forces for Gates.
Gen Stanley McChrystal made o u r s e c u r i t y f o r c e s a r e Dell(NASDAQ: DELL) will
focusing more on tackling A recent opinion poll showed commence an offer to acquire
his assessment in a copy of a strengthened, both in terms of insurgents than protecting Afghan that a narrow majority of
confidential report obtained by the numbers and quality, there won't Perot Systems(NYSE: PER) for
civilians Americans now oppose the $30 per share in cash. DELL
Washington Post. be a long-lasting peace in • Censures the Afghan conflict.
He recently called for a revised Afghanistan," Sebghatullah Sanjar expects the transaction to be
government for lack of action on Last week the chairman of the accretive to DELL's GAAP
military strategy in Afghanistan, told the BBC. widespread corruption Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm Mike
suggesting the current one is earnings in its fiscal year 2012.
'Mission failure' • Warns that Afghanistan's Mullen, told the US Senate PER options were active last
failing. In his latest assessment, Gen prisons have become a sanctuary Armed Services Committee that
More than 30,000 extra US McChrystal is quoted by the week, with 2,549 contracts trading
for active insurgents more troops might be required to on September 18, the most active
t r o o p s h a v e b e e n s e n t t o Washington Post newspaper as All of these factors, he claims, tackle the mounting Taliban
Afghanistan since May - almost saying: "Failure to gain the day since July 2002. PER over all
have led to a "crisis of confidence insurgency. option implied volatility of 48 is
doubling the US contingent. initiative and reverse insurgent among Afghans" in the face of a But President Obama later said
The number of US troops in momentum in the near-term [next above its 26-week average of 36,
resilient insurgency. there was "no immediate decision according to Track Data,
Afghanistan is already set to rise 12 months]... risks an outcome The increase in troop numbers pending" on sending more troops
to 68,000 by the end of the year. where defeating the insurgency is suggesting larger price movement.
would provide security for the to Afghanistan. Sara Lee(NYSE: SLE) closed at
Gen McChrystal, who took over no longer possible." Afghan people and create a space "You have to get the strategy
as military commander in May, is $10.68. SLE October option
He warned that "inadequate in which good governance can right and then make the implied volatility of 34 is near its
expected to make a separate resources will likely result in take root, Gen McChrystal argues. determination about resources,"
request for tens of thousands of failure". 26-week average of 36. SLE
In a blunt evaluation, he says Mr Obama said. options were active on September
extra forces to be deployed. He "Additional resources are that both the Afghan government The BBC's security
also says that training for Afghan required," the general states in the 18 with 17,563 contracts trading
and international forces face correspondent Nick Childs says according to Track Data.
forces needs to be speeded up. summary of the report. losing credibility among the the timing of this leak, and the
Now, the general wants perhaps Option Update is provided by
He said that failure to provide Afghan population. stark language contained in it, is Stock Specialist Paul Foster of
tens of thousands more. Yet the adequate resources "risks a longer "Pre-occupied with protection of certain to pile the pressure on the
request is in contrast to the stated conflict, greater casualties, higher theflyonthewall.com.
our own forces, we have operated Obama administration, Options Update: Perot Systems
goal of handing over operations overall costs, and ultimately, a in a manner that distances us - particularly when the president
more and more to the Afghan critical loss of political support". volume up into Dell's $3.9 billion
physically and psychologically - has just said he is not ready to acquisition originally appeared on
army. "Any of these risks, in turn, are from the people we seek to make a final decision.
With the situation so critical, likely to result in mission failure." BloggingStocks on Mon, 21 Sep
protect," he says. This is largely because the issue 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see
how can that happen? Answer - it But Gen McChrystal adds that But 2009 has been the deadliest has become so politically charged
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numbers but without numbers, country. Italy is holding a day of
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How to Travel to Munich for Oktoberfest on the Cheap
By Brook Wilkinson (Wired Top Oktoberfest, the annual off this weekend in Munich. Even
Stories) celebration of all things Bavarian in this economy, it's cheaper to
(but especially giant beers) kicks get there than you might think.
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Lawyer Defends Imam Arrested in Terror Inquiry
- New York Times
(Most Popular - Google News)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:07:35 AM
Ahmad Wais Afzali had for
years been a popular imam in
Queens. First at one mosque, and
then at others, he had become
known for his moving sermons.
He also ran a funeral home, and
won praise for helping families
deal with their grief.
He was also a source of
information for local and federal
authorities on the alert for any
criminal activity. A good citizen,
his lawyer called him.
And so this month, Mr. Afzali
was approached by law
enforcement officials concerned
that a terror suspect had
unexpectedly driven to Queens
from Colorado. Over time, Mr.
Afzali had phone conversations
with the suspect, Najibullah Zazi,
a 24-year-old former food-cart
vendor who had grown up in
Queens.
Those phone calls and others,
court records show, included talk
of the interest in Mr. Zazi among
law enforcement officials and the
possibility that he might be picked
up by the authorities. They
included mentions of what was
happening in Afghanistan and
Pakistan. One conversation
involved talk of “evidence.”
The imam’s lawyer said he was
merely trying to help the
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By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:39:00 AM
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Wada—president of final
authorities. But on Saturday night,
federal officials arrested Mr.
Afzali, 37, effectively claiming
that their onetime source of
assistance had betrayed them by
tipping off Mr. Zazi, and then
lying to them about it.
Mr. Zazi, who had abruptly
returned to Colorado after the
phone calls with Mr. Afzali and
after he was stopped and
questioned by the police at the
George Washington Bridge on his
way into the city, was also
arrested Saturday night. Federal
authorities said he had admitted
receiving explosives training at a
terrorist camp in Pakistan, and
had notes on his laptop computer
on making bombs. And it was
clear he was the central focus of a
federal investigation aimed at
heading off a possible attack in
the United States
The series of phone calls
between Mr. Zazi and Mr. Afzali
was recorded, and excerpts were
disclosed by federal authorities
when the men were arrested. Mr.
Afzali knew they were being
recorded, and they could be open
to varying interpretations.
But the authorities clearly
believe they were pivotal in
provoking Mr. Zazi to leave New
York, leading them to hurriedly
conduct raids in a number of
apartments in Queens last week
because they believed Mr. Zazi
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while predicting that Microsoft
was aware he was under suspicion
and might destroy evidence.
If the conversations prove to be
incriminating, they would be an
uncommon instance in the annals
of American terror investigations:
a person who had worked with the
authorities suddenly turning on
them.
Mr. Afzali’s lawyer, Ronald L.
Kuby, said the authorities came to
his client and “wanted to know
everything they could about
Najibullah Zazi, and he agreed to
help them.” Mr. Kuby added: “He
had always been helpful and
candid and useful to them; that’s
why they trusted him.”
In an interview on Sunday, Mr.
Afzali’s wife, Fatimah, said he
was born in Kabul, Afghanistan.
He left with his parents at age 6 or
7, arriving in Queens, where he
went to school.
She described her husband as an
accommodating man, a father of
two children from a previous
marriage and an imam who leads
prayers in mosques around the
city. A businessman, he also runs
an Islamic burial and shipping
service, where he brings comfort
to the bereaved, Ms. Afzali said.
Mr. Afzali’s father was also
successful in business, according
to Ahmad Weish, the president of
Masjid-al-Saaliheen, a mosque in
Queens where Mr. Afzali had, in
the past, delivered the Friday
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sermon. Mr. Weish said that Mr.
Afzali’s father used to own
pizzerias in Queens.
In a 2003 interview with The
New York Times, Mr. Afzali gave
voice to the optimism his fellow
Afghans were expressing at the
time about the prospects for
finding stability and business
prospects in their native country
after years in New York.
“It’s been a great opportunity for
us financially,” Mr. Afzali said at
the time.
Though it was unclear if Mr.
Afzali had rediscovered
Afghanistan of late, his neighbors
described his passion for cars.
“He always had fresh, expensive
cars,” said Messia Ben Yosef, 23,
a pharmacy student who said Mr.
Afzali lived on his street for at
least 15 years. He said Mr. Afzali
drove a white Jaguar XJ8.
Mr. Afzali’s wife said her
husband was a Muslim “from the
inside out.” Her parents were
raised as Muslims after her
grandparents, who moved from
Puerto Rico, converted to Islam,
she said. She married Mr. Afzali
three years ago; she said her
father introduced them when Mr.
Afzali “buried my grandpa.”
Ms. Afzali said her husband’s
sermons “usually inspire tears.”
"truly successful."
Wada says that the next-
generation, high definition Wii
will offer the same capabilities as
the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3,
7
Dell acquires
Perot Systems
By Mark Fightmaster
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 9:30:00 AM
Filed under: Deals, Dell (DELL)
Early on Monday morning,
Dell(NASDAQ: DELL)
announced that it has agreed to
buy Perot Systems(NYSE: PER)
for roughly $3.9 billion. Perot is
an information technology
services company, which was
created by former presidential
candidate Ross Perot.
Dell will offer $30 per share in
cash for Perot, which represents a
68% premium over Perot's Friday
close. Overall, the deal is
reportedly worth $3.9 billion
(according to Dell). The deal is
expected to close in the quarter
running from November to
January -- Dell's fiscal fourth
quarter.
Continue reading Dell acquires
Perot Systems
Dell acquires Perot Systems
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while adding a brand new motion
controller. We will have to wait
till 2011 to see it, like previous
rumors pointed out. [ Joystiq]
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Schizophrenic killer in WA recaptured after 3 PPL Corp.: A

days (AP) relative bargain, after
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) the Spokane County Interstate was diagnosed as schizophrenic federal, state and Spokane-area a late summer swoon
Submitted at 9/21/2009 5:53:58 AM Fair, Knezovich said in a release. and acquitted by reason of law enforcement personnel had By Joseph Lazzaro
The friend gave Paul a sleeping insanity in the slaying of an been shifted from the Spokane (BloggingStocks)
SEATTLE – A schizophrenic bag and a leather jacket and drove elderly woman in Sunnyside in area near the Idaho border to
Submitted at 9/21/2009 10:00:00 AM
killer who slipped away from the him out of town. It wasn't until 1987. He soaked her body in Goldendale, the Klickitat County
staff of a mental institution during Saturday that the friend learned of gasoline to throw off search dogs. seat, about 145 miles southeast of Filed under: Stocks to Buy PPL
a trip to a county fair has been the escape. He then contacted McComas said Paul would be Seattle and 185 miles southwest Corp.'s(NYSE: PPL) stock has
recaptured after three days on the detectives and showed them taken to Yakima following a of Spokane. meandered since first
loose. where he dropped off Paul. checkup by medics in Goldendale. Knezovich expressed dismay recommended on May 26, 2009 at
With a helicopter overhead and Authorities used that He is expected to appear in that Paul aroused no suspicion a price of $32.15 -- and even
dozens of federal, state and local information to narrow their Yakima County Superior Court on when he left the mental institution broken below the key, 50-day
l a w e n f o r c e m e n t o f f i c e r s search. Monday on a warrant stemming with a backpack loaded with moving average for a considerable
swarming around rural Knezovich said the detectives from the initial murder case clothing, food and $50 from a period, something that would
Goldendale on Sunday, 47-year- who apprehended Paul drove up before being returned to Eastern Social Security check. typically spark a re-evaluation of
old Phillip Arnold Paul walked to him in an undercover van, State. "It appears that Mr. Paul had the investment.
out to a highway in south-central jumped out with guns drawn and Susan N. Dreyfus, secretary of planned this for quite some time," But PPL is in the electric power
Washington state, Klickitat ordered Paul to the ground. the Department of Social and he said. generation sector, and rare is the
County Sheriff Rick McComas "He stated he was 'done' and Health Services, issued a The field trip to the fair, which day you should sell a power play.
said. complied with their commands," statement praising those involved included 30 other patients, is an Hence, I'm Reiterating my Buy
"He came out of the brush, onto he said. Knezovich added that in the recapture. annual event that Paul easily rating for PPL Corp.
the roadway, as law enforcement Paul had a hand scythe a long, "We are committed to finding could have anticipated, Reagan Continue reading PPL Corp.: A
o f f i c e r s w e r e g o i n g b y , " curved blade attached to a handle out how and why this happened, said. relative bargain, after a late
McComas told The Associated in his backpack but made no why there was an unacceptable Jim Stevenson, a spokesman for summer swoon
P r e s s . " H i s i n t e n t w a s t o attempt to reach for it. (two-hour) delay in notifying the state Department of Social and PPL Corp.: A relative bargain,
voluntarily give himself up One of those involved in the local law enforcement of his Health Services, said Paul after a late summer swoon
because he knew we were going arrest, Spokane County sheriff's escape, and how potentially received an injection designed to originally appeared on
to find him." Detective Roger W. Knight, also dangerous patients were brought maintain his mental stability for BloggingStocks on Mon, 21 Sep
But Spokane County Sheriff nabbed Paul after he gave Eastern to such a public venue with the about two weeks on Wednesday. 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see
Ozzie D. Knezovich said Paul had State personnel the slip in 1991 reported staffing ratios," Dreyfus Only at the end of that period our terms for use of feeds.
just tried to thumb a ride from an during a field trip in Medical added. would he have needed another Permalink| Email this| Comments
a r e a r e s i d e n t w h o a l e r t e d Lake, where the mental institution Shortly after the escape, dose to avoid the potential for a
authorities. is located, Knezovich said. Dreyfus ordered a halt to all field serious deterioration of his mental
Paul had told a friend in Following that arrest, Paul trips for "forensic patients" those condition, Stevenson said.
Spokane for months that he was knocked Knight unconscious in committed for treatment as a ___
going to be released from the the jail booking area and was result of criminal proceedings at AP Correspondent Shannon
Eastern State, a mental institution. convicted of first-degree escape all three of the state's mental Dininny contributed to this story.
He went to the friend's house and second-degree assault. institutions.
Thursday after escaping during Paul was committed after he By early Sunday, 50 to 60

Steve Keen: Demand for Credit Creates Loans Which Create Reserves
(Financial Sector and Stocks Steve Keen in my post, “ Politics world which can only be brought demand for credit creates loans inflation is unlikely to reappear –
Analysis from Seeking Alpha) and reform: Say I’m a to heel through a ‘debt jubilee.’ which create reserves, which is irrespective of what central banks
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:15:29 AM politician….” Keen is of the Below is a video clip of Keen the opposite causality of what one do. I will have more on this
Minsky camp and he believes that telling Max Keiser a bit more sees in neoclassical economics. subject in later posts.
Last week, I highlighted some of an unsustainable debt bubble has about how he sees things. Central This would mean that, absent a
the ideas of Australian economist built up in the industrialized to his ideas is the concept that pickup in demand for credit,
Internet News Record Top News/ Gadgets/ 9

Colo. terror plot suspect due in federal court (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 5:57:44 AM
DENVER – Three people,
including an Afghanistan-born
Colorado man who allegedly hand
wrote bomb-making instructions,
face court appearances Monday
on charges of lying to authorities
in an ongoing terror investigation.
Najibullah Zazi, 24, a Colorado
airport shuttle driver who has
admitted receiving weapons
training from al-Qaida, played a
direct role in the alleged terror
plot, according to court
documents released Sunday.
Authorities have said they don't
know the timing or location of
any planned attack.
Investigators said they found
notes on bomb-making that
appear to match Zazi's
handwriting and discovered his
fingerprints on materials batteries
and a scale that could be used to
make explosives.
Zazi and his 53-year-old father,
Mohammed Wali Zazi, were
arrested Saturday in Denver.
Ahmad Wais Afzali, 37, was
arrested in New York, where he is
an imam at a mosque in Queens.
The three are accused of making
false statements to the
government. The Zazis were
scheduled to appear in federal
court in Denver on Monday, the
Justice Department said. Afzali
was to appear Monday in federal
court in New York.
If convicted, they face eight
years in prison.
The younger Zazi has publicly
denied being involved in a terror
plot. His attorney, Arthur Folsom,
dismissed as "rumor" any notion
that his client played a crucial
role, and Zazi's defense team did
not respond to attempts to reach
them Sunday.
Federal officials in Denver
declined to comment.
Mohammed Zazi and Afzali are
accused of lying to FBI agents
about calls between Denver and
New York. An affidavit accuses
Afzali of lying about a call in
which he told Najibullah Zazi that
he had spoken with authorities.
Zazi's father is accused of lying
when he told authorities he didn't
know anyone by the name of
Afzali. The FBI said it recorded a
conversation between Mohammed
Zazi and Afzali.
Prosecutors have said they're
not seeking to detain Zazi's father.
It was unclear whether they would
seek to detain Afzali, who has
worked as an informant for New
York police.
Carl Tobias, a University of
Richmond law professor who
tracks such investigations, said
authorities could have made the
arrests because they feared too
much information was getting to
the suspects. Additional charges
could be filed later, he said.
Ron Kuby, Afzali's attorney,
said the government may have
been forced to act after Najibullah
Zazi went to New York. Zazi has
said he drove there in September
to resolve issues with a coffee cart
he owns in Manhattan.
Kuby said his client gave
authorities a DNA sample and let
them search his home after the
FBI said it was "frantic for any
information about Zazi."
"Now they find themselves
without a case, and they're lashing
out at people they shouldn't be
lashing out at," Kuby said.
Federal prosecutors say Zazi
admitted to FBI agents that he
received instruction from al-Qaida
operatives on subjects such as
weapons and explosives. They
also say he received the training
in the federally administered tribal
areas of Pakistan.
Court documents filed in
Denver say Zazi spoke with
agents under an agreement where
he might avoid prosecution. Zazi's
defense denied reports that he
considered a plea deal related to
terror charges.
The FBI said it found images of
handwritten notes on a laptop
containing formulas and
instructions for making a bomb,
detonators and a fuse. Zazi told
the FBI that he must have
unintentionally downloaded the
notes as part of a religious book
and that he deleted the book "after Kunai: New USB
realizing that its contents
discussed jihad."
Ninja tool
An affidavit says the By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear)
handwriting on the notes appeared Submitted at 9/21/2009 1:01:01 AM
to be Zazi's. It also says they were
e-mailed in December as an A kunai is a tool the ancient
attachment between accounts Ninja used to gouge holes in walls
believed to be owned by Zazi, and to kill off people. Now,
including an account that thanks to Tokyo-based gadget
originated in Pakistan. maker Solid Alliance, you can
FBI agents say Najibullah Zazi have one of these things[JP], too,
traveled to Pakistan twice this if only as a USB memory stick.
year. Zazi says he was visiting his This is the same company that
wife, who lives in the Peshawar released the USB Ninja star
region. shuriken back in May.
Zazi was born in Afghanistan, The new USB Kunai holds 2GB
moved to Pakistan at age 7 and and you can get it over at Geek
emigrated to the United States in Stuff 4U for$125.33 plus
1999. He returned to Pakistan in shipping. Pay the same amount of
2007 and 2008 to visit his wife, money for the shuriken star and
according to Folsom. you’re on your way to become a
___ true USB Ninja.
Associated Press writers Ivan
Moreno in Denver, and Samantha
Gross, Jennifer Peltz and Larry
Neumeister in New York City
contributed to this report.

Colorio Me E-800: Epson Japan to roll out postcard printer/photo frame hybrid
By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear) print 89 x 127mm pictures Macs and Windows PCs if you 800 and that each print costs
Submitted at 9/21/2009 2:40:12 AM without having to use a computer. really need to. You also get two about $0.20.
Pictures or a calendar can be USB 2.0 ports and a remote Epson plans to start selling the
Epson Japan has announced the viewed on a 7-inch LCD screen control (it’s also possible to get E-800 in Japan on October 7 for
Colorio E-800[JP], a new device with 800×480 resolution. prints directly via your iPhone – $600. The company hasn’t said
that serves as both a postcard You can add to your postcards see the picture below). Epson says yet whether it will make the
printer and a digital photo frame. or pictures via the wireless it takes about 30 seconds to print device available outside Japan as
The E-800 makes it possible to keyboard that comes with the device, which can be connected to a full-color postcard with the E- well.
10 Top News/ Gadgets/ Internet News Record

Obama rejects Russia missile link

(BBC News | Americas | World clear, that probably the jobs "Russia had always been Poland to site 10 interceptors at a
Edition) picture is not going to improve paranoid about this, but George base near the Baltic Sea, and with
Submitted at 9/20/2009 8:42:48 AM considerably and it could even get Bush was right. This wasn't a the Czech Republic to build a
a little bit worse over the next threat to them," Mr Obama said. radar station on its territory.
The US president says his couple of months." - CNN's State He added that the replacement Ground-based system Under the
decision to shelve a missile of the Union. plan would not be a threat to system proposed by former
defence plan was not dictated by • Healthcare: "About two-thirds Russia, either. president Bush, ground-based
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US conservatives have criticised law" - CBS's Face the Nation. drop the initial plan was a to site interceptor missiles in
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:09:00 AM
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Nissan's Leaf EV will sound like a Blade Runner spinner, get better mileage
By Vladislav Savov (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 9:24:00 AM
One of the major disadvantages
of electric vehicles, for
petrolheads at least, is the lack of
engine noise. How can you be
proud of your beastly motor if it
doesn't roar? There are mundane
considerations like pedestrian
safety too, but that's beside the
point. Nissan seems to have
uncovered an old copy of Blade
Runner in its toolshed and
decided that, yes, it might be a
good idea for the Leaf EV to emit
a whooshing sound inspired by
the Philip K. Dick adaptation. If
implemented, this will raise the
car's price somewhat, but wouldn't
you pay a premium to have your
auto sound like a jet taking off?
The Leaf is expected to arrive in
the US in 2010, replete with its
reputed 367 miles per gallon
efficiency.
[Via Autoblog Green]
Continue reading Nissan's Leaf
EV will sound like a Blade
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Cuba rocks to huge peace concert
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Submitted at 9/21/2009 1:32:52 AM
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Hundreds of thousands packed
Revolution Square for the concert
Havana has hosted the biggest
open-air concert since the 1959
revolution, featuring some 15 top
Latin American, Spanish and
Cuban performers.
An estimated one million people
- many wearing white - attended
the free event in Revolution
Square, Havana.
Colombian singer Juanes, who
organised the Peace without
Borders concert, received death
threats from Miami-based critics
of the Cuban regime.
But he had the support from 20
high-profile jailed dissidents
inside Cuba.
The BBC's Michael Voss, who
was at the five-and-a-half hour
concert, said there was a mood of
excitement as many residents of
the isolated, music-loving island
had never seen anything like it
before.
When Pope Jean Paul II
celebrated his historic Mass in
this same place just over 10 years
ago, there were about 250,000
people here. We estimate there is
double that number here now.
This is the centre of power here
in Cuba. Normally when I come
here, it is to cover the big May
Day parades and there are red
flags everywhere.
Now, everyone is wearing
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crushing Juanes CDs using a
small steamroller.
"There has been a lot of blood
spilled in Cuba and people
executed by firing squad," said 77
-year-old Hernan Gonzalez, who
said he spent six years in a Cuban
prison for his opposition to Fidel
Castro in the 1960s.
"He [Juanes] is singing over
dead bodies."
Ninoska Perez, spokeswoman
for the Cuban Liberty Council,
told BBC Mundo: "It's a farce...
that overlooks Cuban reality by
conveniently describing it as 'an
apolitical concert'."
The location of the Havana
concert was highly symbolic.
The headquarters of the
communist party is in Revolution
Square, along with a giant metal
sculpture of Che Guevara's head.
The square was used by Fidel
Castro to give five-hour speeches,
white. There are white flags, Los Van Van. island's communist system, the
white shirts. That's the message - "Together, we are going to make dissidents say the concert is an and is also where Pope John Paul
Peace without Borders. history," said Tanon, as she opportunity for reconciliation. II celebrate a historic open air
He said people had travelled opened the concert with the love Juanes said the show was about Mass in 1998.
from across the island to attend. song, Es Mentiroso Ese Hombre peace and tolerance, not politics, Speaking in an interview
b r o adcast on Sunday, US
But our reporter said heat was a (That Man is a Liar). telling the audience that "the
problem, with many people being "It was really complicated to get important thing is to swap hate for President Barack Obama said he
carried away on stretchers after here but I just couldn't miss it," a love". understood Juanes to be a "terrific
fainting. Havana resident, Maria Antonia, But at the end of the show, he musician", but he was cautious
"We are here for the music and it who was in a wheelchair, told caused some surprise by shouting about the impact of the concert.
is a message of peace and unity, BBC Mundo. "Cuba libre!" (Free Cuba!) and "I certainly don't think it hurts
US-Cuban relations," he said.
not only for Cuba, but for the "We are going to stay as long as "One Cuban family", slogans
entire region," said Latin Grammy we have the strength," Cristina associated with the Cuban exile "These kinds of cultural
exchanges - I wouldn't overstate
winner Juanes. Rodriguez, a 43-year-old nurse community.
Among the other artists taking who came with her teenage son, In Miami, where the concert the degree that it helps."
part on Sunday were Spain's Felix, told AP. was broadcast by Spanish Print Sponsor
Miguel Bose, Olga Tanon from 'Farce' language TV stations, there were
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performers Silvio Rodriguez and that Juanes is endorsing the Americans, with one group
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You may breathe a sigh of relief: mystery, and we're not all going By Randy Alfred (Wired Top It's the birthday of the man who
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12 Top News/ Finance/ Gadgets/ Internet News Record

'Millions at risk' as deltas sink Cramer on

(BBC News | Americas | World
Edition)
explained by sea level alone."
Most of the at-risk river basins
are in the developing countries of
The flow of sediment down to
the Chao Phraya delta has been
almost entirely blocked, the
BloggingStocks: Passing
Submitted at 9/21/2009 5:25:45 AM
Asia, but there are several in
Most of the world's major river d e v e l o p e d n a t i o n s a s w e l l ,
researchers report - by taking
water out for irrigation, damming
on the upside
deltas are sinking, increasing the including the Rhone in France and the river, and directing the main By Jim Cramer
flood risk faced by hundreds of the Po in Italy. flow through just a few channels. (BloggingStocks)
millions of people, scientists The Po delta sank by 3.7m Normally, this sediment would Submitted at 9/21/2009 9:00:00 AM
report. during the 20th Century, mainly add to the height of the land, a
Damming and diverting rivers from methane extraction, the process known as aggradation. Filed under: Motorola (MOT),
means that much less sediment researchers say. Taking water from aquifers for Market matters, Advanced Micro
now reaches many delta areas, Sinking feeling drinking, industry and agriculture Dev (AMD), Kimberly-Clark
while extraction of gas and The researchers drew on data is also compacting the ground, (KMB), Cramer on
groundwater also lowers the land. from various space missions making it sink. BloggingStocks From
Rivers affected include the including the Shuttle Radar As the ground falls and sea level TheStreet.com Network
Colorado, Nile, Pearl, Rhone and Topography Mission, an 11-day rises, people become more • It's Time to Trade Up to Dow
Yangtze. project run from the shuttle vulnerable to inundation during Stocks
About half a billion people live Endeavour in 2000, and the storms. • Credit-Card Companies
in these regions, the researchers Moderate Resolution Imaging "Every year, about 10 million Become 'Deadbeats'
n o t e i n t h e j o u r n a l N a t u r e Spectroradiometers (Modis) people are being affected by TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer
Geoscience. carried on two Nasa satellites. storm surges," said Irina says the spike in stock prices
They calculate that 85% of Combined with historical Overeem, another of the study warrants no buying until prices go
major deltas have seen severe records and measurements of sea team from the University of lower.
flooding in recent years, and that level rise, this allowed the team to Colorado. I read a scary book this
the area of land vulnerable to view how fast land was sinking in "Hurricane Katrina may be the weekend: the S&P chart book. It Paychex(NASDAQ: PAYX) (
flooding will increase by about some deltas, and to look at the best example in the US, but was frightening because there Cramer's Take) were the only two
50% in the next 40 years as land various factors that might be flooding in the Asian deltas of the weren't more than a handful charts that I saw that seemed remotely
sinks and climate change causes responsible. Irrawaddy in Burma and the that aren't overextended, and appealing, and maybe Philip
sea levels to rise. Of the 33 major deltas studied, Ganges-Brahmaputra in India and many stocks have reached levels Morris(NYSE: PM) ( Cramer's
"We argue that the world's low- 24 were found to be sinking. Bangladesh have recently claimed that I didn't like when their Take).
lying deltas are increasingly Possibly the worst affected is thousands of lives as well." companies were doing well. Chart Continue reading Cramer on
vulnerable to flooding, either the Chao Phraya, the river that The team identifies the Mekong after chart in every business, but BloggingStocks: Passing on the
from their feeding rivers or from flows through Bangkok. In some and the Pearl River delta near especially retail and industrial, upside
ocean storms," said Albert Kettner years, parts of the delta have sunk Hong Kong as places where have moved up so much that you Cramer on BloggingStocks:
from the University of Colorado relative to sea level by 15cm (six similar disasters are likely in have to feel like a chump to come Passing on the upside originally
in Boulder, US. inches). future. in at these levels. appeared on BloggingStocks on
"This study shows there are a This is significantly more than Richard.Black- There are almost no stocks with Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:00:00 EST.
host of human-induced factors the global rate of sea level rise as INTERNET@bbc.co.uk growth prospects that have Please see our terms for use of
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The Nikon S1000pj is now available for purchase
By Matt Burns (CrunchGear) but then a nasty Internet rumor got their hands on the camera on
Submitted at 9/21/2009 5:40:26 AM circulated stating that it was the 17th, but it’s now available
pushed back to October 23 due to from major Internet retailers for
Nice. The Nikon S1000pj pocket supply levels. But a Nikon PR $429 and that’s all that matters.
projector camera was originally dude sent us a little note, calming We have no idea if any actually
slated for September 17th release, stating that it was still on track.
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Mad Men wins top Emmy again
(BBC News | Americas | World
Edition)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 2:00:43 AM
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John Hamm as Don Draper in
the US TV series Mad Men
Mad Men, the period show
about the advertising industry, has
won an Emmy for best TV drama
for the second year running, at a
ceremony in Los Angeles.
In the comedy section, 30 Rock,
a series about a fictional TV
programme, won its third trophy
in as many years.
The BBC's Little Dorrit took the
most awards, winning seven
categories.
Glenn Close won lead actress in
a drama series for her role in
Damages, while best actor in a
drama series went to Bryan
Cranston for Breaking Bad.
Little Dorrit's award haul
included best mini-series, best
script for writer Andrew Davis,
best art direction, costumes and
cinematography.
"We are thrilled that Little Dorrit
has gone down so well this side of
the Atlantic," executive producer
Anne Pivcevic said.
The BBC's Peter Bowes in Los
Angeles said Mad Men, the drama
category winner, has attracted a
small audience but is a favourite
of the critics.
Our correspondent said the
awards ceremony was a relatively
low key show, reflecting what has
been a difficult year in the
television industry.
Stunning Views of Glaciers From Space
By Betsy Mason and Hadley
Leggett (Wired Top Stories)
It was left to the star of The
Office, Ricky Gervais, to lighten
the mood as he claimed the
awards ceremony was his
favourite.
"The thing about Oscars and the
Golden Globes is they've got film
stars there," he said.
"With their jaw lines and
chiselled looks, making me feel
bad. But in this room, I'm
probably above average."
In other awards, Australian
actress Toni Colette won the
Emmy for leading actress in a
comedy series for her role in
United States of Tara, while Alec
Baldwin scooped the men's
category for his role in 30 Rock.
The glacier is the geologist's like from space. Not bad, eh?
window into the Earth's soul.
Here's what some of them look
Tina Fey failed to win best
actress for 30 Rock, but she was
honoured for her Sarah Palin
impersonation.
Irish actor Brendan Gleeson
won an Emmy for outstanding
lead actor in a mini-series or
movie for his role as Winston
Churchill in Into The Storm.
Kristin Chenoweth won the best
supporting comedy actress, one of
four awards for Pushing Daisies.
But the show has now been
cancelled.
"I'm not employed now so I'd
like to be on Mad Men. I also like
The Office and 24," she joked as
she collected her award.
Jon Cryer won best supporting
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comedy actor for Two and a Half
Men.
"I used to think that awards were
just shallow tokens of momentary
popularity, but now I realise they
are the only true measure of a
person's worth as a human being,"
quipped Cryer.
TV movie Grey Gardens
starring Jessica Lange picked up
six awards including best
television film.
Our correspondent said the
ceremony devoted a significant
amount of time to reality
television, one of the fastest
growing genres in entertainment.
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NASA lights up
the East Coast
By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:30:06 AM
East Coasters, did you see any
weird clouds Saturday night?
Some people did as the event
caused reports and calls from
Boston all the way down the coast
to Florida. But you have nothing
to fear, the aliens from
Independence Day didn’t make
them, NASA did.
By using the exhaust particles
from the fourth stage of a NASA
Black Brant XII suborbital
sounding rocking,
NASA briefly created noctilucent
clouds which are also known as
night-shining clouds. These are
the highest clouds naturally found
on Earth and are normally found
around 50 miles above Earth at
high latitudes. NASA conducted
this test not only to spark a bit
of hysteria, but also to study the
effect of rocket exhaust in the
upper atmosphere. We just think
that NASA likes to remind
everyone that they are still
around.
[photo credit: Space.com &
Veres Viktor]
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Nato chief in Afghanistan warns of 'mission

failure'
By Peter Walker (World news "Failure to gain the initiative and conflict zone. base" for insurgents to plan and to
and comment from the reverse insurgent momentum in "I'm the one who's answerable to recruit among criminals.
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) the near term (next 12 months) – their parents if they don't come He identified three main
Submitted at 9/21/2009 7:01:16 AM while Afghan security capacity home," he said. "So I have to ask insurgent groups, saying they
matures – risks an outcome where some very hard questions any were "clearly supported from
General Stanley McChrystal defeating the insurgency is no time I send our troops in." Pakistan".
says more troops and new tactics longer possible," he warned. Nato sources told the Guardian "The insurgents control or Solar Bluetooth
needed if defeating insurgency is Coupled with this was a last week that any extra troops for contest a significant portion of the
to remain possible requirement for new tactics, like Afghanistan would have to come country, although it is difficult to Headset Can Standby
The new Nato commander in training more Nato troops in local
Afghanistan, General Stanley languages so they would be "seen
from the UK or other European
nations because the US military
assess precisely how much due to
a lack of Isaf presence."
Forever [Bluetooth]
McChrystal, has warned of as guests of the Afghan people remained heavily committed in Senior Afghan police officials By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
possible "mission failure" unless and their government, not an Iraq. told the Associated Press more Submitted at 9/21/2009 5:26:07 AM
more international forces, coupled occupying army". "The Germans have more troops could make things worse.
with new tactics to win local "Preoccupied with protection of capacity, as do the French, the "It is very hard for local people to The tiny solar panel on this
s u p p o r t , a r e d e p l o y e d our own forces, we have operated Italians and the United Kingdom," accept any foreigners who come Bluetooth headset won't recharge
immediately. in a manner that distances us – one Nato source said. to our country and say they are the device as quickly as USB
In a blunt assessment of the physically and psychologically – In his report, McChrystal fighting for our freedom," said power, but the sun's rays can keep
situation to the US defence from the people we seek to protect warned that a combination of General Azizudin Wardak, the the headset waiting for your next
secretary, Robert Gates – a copy ... the insurgents cannot defeat us muddled Nato tactics and police chief in Paktia province. call indefinitely.
of which has been obtained by US militarily, but we can defeat corruption within Afghanistan's "To give the idea that they are While solar can't tackle most
newspapers – McChrystal was ourselves." government and officialdom had not invaders, that they are not realtime energy demands, it's
scathing about corruption within McChrystal said Nato forces left Afghans "reluctant to align occupiers, is very difficult." plenty to handle a Bluetooth
the Afghan government and the should spend "as little time as with us against the insurgents". Mohammad Pashtun, who heads headset in standby—which we
tactics used by International possible in armoured vehicles or "The weakness of state the criminal investigation unit in must say, seems like a decent use
Security Assistance Force (Isaf) behind the walls of forward institutions, malign actions of southern Kandahar, the Taliban's for the tech. You'll never have to
t r o o p s , o f w h i c h h e t o o k operating bases", warning that in powerbrokers, widespread heartland, said the money would worry "is this thing that makes me
command in June. the short term this meant it was corruption and abuse of power by be better off going to Afghan look like a douchebag even
"Failure to provide adequate "realistic to expect that Afghan various officials, and ISAF's own forces. working???" again.
resources ... risks a longer and coalition casualties will errors have given Afghans little "Increasing international troops Additionally, should you choose
conflict, greater casualties, higher increase". reason to support their is not useful," he said. "For the to purchase two headsets and
overall costs and, ultimately, a In a series of television government. expense of one American soldier, actually wear them at the same
critical loss of political support," interviews broadcast yesterday, "Afghan social, political, we can pay for 15 Afghan soldiers time, you'll be able to appreciate
he wrote in a 66-page document, the US president, Barack Obama, economic, and cultural affairs are or police." A2DP (stereo Bluetooth) through
details of which were obtained by said he was still considering complex and poorly understood. • Afghanistan multiple pairing. You know our
the Washington Post. whether more troops should be "Isaf does not sufficiently • Nato feelings on that maneuver, so to
"Any of these risks, in turn, are sent to Afghanistan. appreciate the dynamics in local • United States state them yet again would be
likely to result in mission failure." "I just want to make sure that communities, nor how the • Barack Obama unseemly.
McChrystal wrote that "Isaf everybody understands that you insurgency, corruption, Peter Walker This solar bluetooth headset can
requires more forces", mentioning don't make decisions about incompetent officials, guardian.co.uk© Guardian be yours for $67 from Brando. [
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Brown urges extra climate effort

By Patrick Wintour (World slowly that a deal is in grave do not have the authority to make technology cash than the $100bn
news and comment from the danger." He ups the ante by a deal. It is going to need big (£62bn) a year by 2020 from
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) becoming the first head of figures with the authority to direct public and private sources that has
Submitted at 9/21/2009 4:01:50 AM government to say he will go to the talks. None of this can be so far been proposed by the EU
Copenhagen to try to agree a settled at three in the morning on Brown's initiative. Few
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c l i m a t e c h a n g e t a l k s i n seize these opportunities. But I countries commit themselves to a framework is going to be
Copenhagen in December in an believe it can be done. And if it is large interim carbon emission cuts governed.
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Verizon LG Chocolate Touch Inches Toward Unexciting Arrival With Leaked Photos [Cellphones]
By Joanna Stern (Gizmodo) Verizon in time for the holidays According to Phone Arena the not so much. [ Phone Arena]
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:30:00 AM and the first leaked shots are nice LG VX8575 will have a 3.2MP
looking. But I am seriously camera and 3.5mm headset jack. I
We knew the Chocolate Touch disappointed the touchscreen BL40. am still drooling over the longer
or LG VX8575 was headed for candy bar doesn't look like the LG BL40, the Chocolate Touch, eh
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Lonely Japanese can 'rent a friend'

By Justin McCurry (World
news and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 2:59:35 AM
• Best man, relative or even
spouse available at a price
• Social changes fuel boom in
professional stand-ins
Best man Ryuichi Ichinokawa
took his place before the
assembled wedding guests,
cleared his throat and for the next
few minutes spoke movingly
about the bride and groom. But
his speech omitted one crucial
fact: that he knew the beaming
couple only marginally better than
the waiters and waitresses serving
their wedding breakfast.
From the moment the guests sat
down until they belted out the
final karaoke song of the evening,
Ichinokawa was part of a grand,
though well-intentioned,
deception.
He is a professional stand-in,
part of a growing service sector
that rents out fake spouses, best
men, relatives, friends,
colleagues, boyfriends and
girlfriends to spare their clients'
blushes at social functions such as
weddings and funerals.
This weekend he adopted yet
another guise, as the uncle of a 12
-year-old boy and his younger
sister at a school sports day. He
dutifully cheered them on,
recorded their efforts on his
handheld video camera and joined
in the adult-and-child races.
If anyone asked, he would
introduce himself as the children's
uncle, perhaps engage in small
talk, then discreetly slip away. He
is unlikely to ever again set eyes
on his "nephew" and "niece", or
his "sister" – a divorcee whose
children were being bullied at
school about their absent father.
Ichinokawa launched his
Hagemashi Tai [I Want to Cheer
You Up] agency three-and-a-half
years ago, after abandoning plans
to become a qualified counsellor.
After a successful debut making
the wedding speech, the requests
came flooding in, says
Ichinokawa, who takes days off
from his job at a toy manufacturer
to go on assignment. "People
wanted women, old and young
people, all sorts, but of course I
couldn't play all those roles
myself."
The affable, bespectacled 44-
year-old now employs 30 agents
of various ages and both sexes,
across Japan with the skills and
personality to temporarily adopt a
new identity: as the father of a
boy who is in trouble at school,
for instance, or the parents of a
woman attending a formal match-
making party.
The number of rent-a-friend
agencies in Japan has doubled to
about 10 in the past eight years.
The best known, Office Agent,
has 1,000 people on its books.
The rise of the phony friend is a
symptom of social and economic
changes, combined with a deep-
seated cultural aversion to giving
personal and professional
problems a public airing.
In recent months demand has
surged for bogus bosses among
men who have lost their jobs; for
colleagues among contract
employees who never stay in the
same job long enough to make
friends, and from divorcees and
lovelorn singletons.
Ichinokawa's agents charge a
modest 15,000 yen (£100) to turn
up at a wedding party, but extra if
they are asked to make a speech
or to sing karaoke.
His preparation is exhaustive,
examining every possible
question that, if answered
incorrectly or not at all, will
embarrass his client and ruin his
reputation. "In three and a half
years I've never once been caught
out," Ichinokawa says.
He even managed to keep his
wife in the dark about his extra-
curricular activities until two
months ago, when she spotted him
in a cafe being interviewed by a
Japanese reporter.
"If I'm pretending to be
someone's husband, I make sure I
know everything about my 'wife',
from her mobile phone number to
what 'our' kids have been getting
up to lately," he adds.
His next big assignment is to
rescue a faltering love affair. The
client, a woman in her 20s who is
in a long-distance relationship,
fears that her "good-looking,
popular" boyfriend's interest is
waning.
When they meet for a date next
month, an equally handsome male
fake "friend" will bump into her,
tell her how happy he is to see her
again and, if all goes to plan,
prompt the boyfriend into a
jealousy-driven show of affection.
It sounds improbable, but
Ichinokawa is certain he will save
his client's relationship. "I don't
make any money out of this," he
says. "But I love helping people
with their problems and making
them happy. When they email me
afterwards to say thank you, I feel
fulfilled."
• Japan
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Looking To
Copyright Food?
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 7:01:00 AM
Last year, around this time, we
noted that the country of Lebanon
was trying to claim that it owns
hummus and other middle eastern
foods, such as falafel, tabouleh
and baba gannouj, and that no
other country could produce them.
It seems that other parts of the
world are seeing the same sort of
thing, as Malaysia is trying to
declare that it owns popular
Malaysian dishes, like nasi lemak.
It doesn't seem entirely clear what
this means, and the article is a bit
vague (the title mentions
"copyright," but the rest of the
article does not). Still, it's
certainly yet another sign of the
times, when it feels natural to
some people to do totally
ridiculous things in claiming
"ownership" of ideas.
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Apple store is down... and now back up

By Chris Rawson (The folks in the Western Hemisphere, much appears to have changed, Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 20 Sep
Unofficial Apple Weblog and considering that we haven't aside from some reports of pricing 2009 03:02:00 EST. Please see
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Apple The online Apple store is We'll be monitoring the store's TUAW Apple store is down...
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the middle of the weekend for if anything, has changed when it And... it's back up. Nothing appeared on The Unofficial Apple
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South Korean
World leaders head for UN assembly Prosecutors Reject
Charges Against
By Ewen MacAskill (World greeted his appearances before the with Gaddafi a target because of leader, Mahmoud Abbas, in the
news and comment from the general assembly. "Obama's the reignited Lockerbie bombing hope of restarting Israeli- Thousands Of Uploaders
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) reception will be adulatory in row. He had originally planned to Palestinian peace negotiations.
contrast with Bush," Bolton stay in a tent in the grounds of a On Wednesday, he sets out his By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 3:02:33 AM
Submitted at 9/21/2009 3:19:39 AM
predicted. "It will be a great photo Libyan mansion in Englewood, foreign policy to the general
It is an annual event that New - o p p o r t u n i t y f o r t h e W h i t e New Jersey but, because of assembly, and on Thursday he
Yorkers profess to hate. With H o u s e . " resentment in the state over the will perform the rare feat of Last month, we noted that a
more than 150 world leaders But Obama is not the only head release of the convicted bomber, chairing the UN security council. group of mostly Japanese porn
descending on Manhattan at the of state who will command Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, he has Jon Alterman, a Middle East publishers tried to bring charges
same time for the United Nations attention. opted for a suite in one of specialist at Washington's Centre against 10,000 people under
general assembly, traffic In attendance for the first time is Manhattan's top hotels. for Strategic and International South Korea's harsh new
meltdown is normally the upshot. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, whom In recent years, the general Studies, backed the staging of copyright laws, claiming that they
But the grumbling is not just a the Swiss fear will use the assembly has been largely about Israel-Palestine talks as a public were guilty of uploading
result of the disruption and the platform to bizarrely call for the theatrics, with Fidel Castro event. copyrighted material. More
millions spent on security, which abolition of Switzerland following ignoring the five-minute rule to Just as important as the formal recently, those same publishers
the city has to bear. It is that little the arrest of his son, Hannibal, in launch lengthy tirades against the agenda, however, is the announced plans to increase the
of significance ever emerges from Geneva earlier this year over an US, and the US delegation opportunity for closed-doors, one- number sued to nearly 65,000.
an event which is high on alleged hotel incident. Mahmoud walking out during Ahmadinejad's on-one chats. The negotiations on Well, that plan may not be getting
theatrics and low on substance. Ahmadinejad may, meanwhile, speech in 2007. But the Obama strategy towards Iran, for very far as Michael Scott alerts us
The White House is hoping that find the ranks of his opponents administration argues that this instance, will be done largely in to the news that South Korean
this year will be different. An swelling following the brutal post- year will be different. Hillary private. prosecutors have rejected the
exotic and varied cast list is election crackdown in Iran and his Clinton, the US secretary of state, • United Nations charges against those 10,000
expected, including a Chinese renewed denial of the Holocaust said: "As President Obama leads • Barack Obama uploaders, instead saying they
president – for the first time in 40 on Friday. our US delegation at this year's • Muammar Gaddafi would just charge 10 "habitual
years – and, crucially, a US leader Hu Jintao, the first Chinese head general assembly, I hope we can • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offenders," though those
who unlike his predecessor values of state to attend since the country demonstrate that the United • China offenders may face jail time.
t h e i n t e r n a t i o n a l p e a c e rejoined the UN in 1971, is also Nations does not have to be just a • United States Permalink| Comments| Email
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of the general assembly on Restrictions on air traffic over Obama will speak at a meeting Ewen MacAskill
Wednesday, he can expect an the city will be even tighter than of world leaders on Tuesday to try guardian.co.uk© Guardian
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referring to the silent hostility that Protesters will be out in force, Netanyahu, and the Palestinian

Neil Patrick Harris Mocks the Internet at the Emmys 2009 [VIDEO]
By Pete Cashmore Emmys thanks to host (and Dr. interruption of last week’s VMAs. avoid social media or risk seeing
(Mashable!) Horrible star) Neil Patrick Harris. Twitter and Facebook streams on spoilers.
Submitted at 9/20/2009 9:03:01 PM Harris, while lauding the the Emmys homepage, Reviews: Facebook, Twitter
Internet as the “future of home meanwhile, indicated the Tags: Emmys, neil patrick harris
Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, entertainment”, mocks small increasing irrelevance of
the musical short film produced screen sizes and the familiar staggered broadcast slots for the
for Internet distribution, got a “buffering” message. any viral Internet memes, ala the East and West coast: those on
cameo appearance in tonight’s Alas, the show failed to deliver Kanye West / Taylor Swift Pacific time now have to actively
18 World/ Tech/ Tech Tips/ Internet News Record

Flavio Briatore banned for life

By Owen Gibson, Sachin to crash and force out the safety within its team and condemn the not intend to renew any
Nakrani (World news and car, which subsequently allowed actions of the individuals Superlicence granted to any driver
comment from the Guardian | his team-mate Fernando Alonso to involved, the WMSC has decided who is associated [through a Welcome to Supercharge
guardian.co.uk) move ahead of the pack and win to suspend Renault F1's management contract or Your Workspace Week
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:15:43 AM the race. disqualification until the end of otherwise] with Mr Briatore, or [Announcements]
Piquet and Alonso attended the 2011 season. The World any entity or individual associated
• Renault's indefinite ban today's hearing but neither has Motor Sport Council will only with Mr Briatore. In determining By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
suspended for two years been punished over the affair. The activate this disqualification if that such instructions should be Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:00:00 AM
• This breach is of 'unparalleled former was never in danger of Renault F1 is found guilty of a applicable for an unlimited
severity' say FIA sanction as he only agreed to give comparable breach during that period, the World Motor Sport Tomorrow's the first day of fall
Flavio Briatore has been given a evidence on the basis of immunity time. Council has had regard not only to here in the Northern Hemisphere,
life-time ban from motor sport for while the latter has consistently "In addition the World Motor the severity of the breach in which which means summer's over and
his role in Renault's fixing of last said that he knew nothing of the Sport Council notes Renault F1's Mr. Briatore was complicit but we're all officially back to work.
year's Singapore grand prix. That plot. apology and agrees that the team also to his actions in continuing to This week, we want to help you
was the principal outcome of a "The World Motor Sport should pay the costs of the deny his participation in the kick it off with a bang. It's time to
hearing into the affair held by the Council considers Renault F1's investigation. It also accepts the breach despite all the evidence." Supercharge Your Workspace.
World Motor Sport Council at the breaches relating to the 2008 offer of a significant contribution Pat Symonds, who resigned as In addition to our regularly
FIA's headquarters in Paris this Singapore grand prix to be of to the FIA's safety work. Renault's director of engineering scheduled software, DIY, and
morning. unparalleled severity," read a "As regards Mr Briatore, the for his collusion in the affair, has productivity goodies, we're
The WMSC specifically ruled WMSC statement. "Renault F1's World Motor Sport Council been handed a similar sanction to delivering a sliding drawer full of
that anyone licensed with the FIA breaches not only compromised declares that, for an unlimited Briatore but his lasts for only five workspace-specific tips. The idea
can never work with the Italian the integrity of the sport but also period, the FIA does not intend to years. is simple: You spend a good share
again. Such is the severity of the endangered the lives of spectators, sanction any international event, • Renault of your waking hours at your
sanction that Briatore, who officials, other competitors and championship, cup, trophy, • Flavio Briatore workspace, and now that
resigned as Renault's team Nelson Piquet Jr himself. challenge or series involving Mr • Formula One everyone's back to work, we want
principal last week, is no longer "The World Motor Sport Briatore in any capacity • Motor sport to get you excited about
even allowed to attend future Council considers that offences of whatsoever, or grant any licence Owen Gibson Sachin Nakrani improving your workspace and
grand prixs as a spectator. this severity merit permanent to any team or other entity guardian.co.uk© Guardian reinvigorating life at your desk.
In contrast to Briatore, Renault disqualification from the FIA engaging Mr Briatore in any News & Media Limited 2009 | Stick around; this week, we're
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Nelson Piquet Jr followed orders identify and address the failings jurisdiction. Furthermore, it does

Brazilian Court Says It's Illegal To Distribute File Sharing Software

If You Have Ads On Your Site
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 1:27:30 AM
A judge in Brazil has apparently
told a website that offers
downloads of a P2P file sharing
app that because it has ads on the
site, its operators can be found
guilty of criminal copyright
infringement and may face
jailtime. Specifically, the
entertainment industry had sued a
particular website because it
distributed a piece of file sharing
software called K-Lite Nitro, even
though it does not make or control
the software. After first
demanding that the software filter
out a huge list of content, which
was impossible since the website
operators had nothing to do with
the software, the company behind
the website is now being told by
the court that just offering up the
software is infringing. So... first
there was contributory
infringement for file sharing apps
themselves... and now they're
going after sites that distribute
such software? What is that?
Contributory contributory
copyright infringement? The site
plans to appeal, noting that there
are plenty of legal uses of the
software as well. They also might
want to point out that some forms
of Brazilian music has done quite
well by embracing file sharing to
their advantage... But, for some
reason, no one ever seems to want
to look at that side of the
equation.
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Sony tops at the multiplex New Banking Issues on the Horizon

with 'Meatballs' (Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 5:22:58 AM
two more times this year, it will
be a sign that the 416 banks on
their private Problem List is
$45 trillion of them. Back in 1994
we could not spell “derivative”.
FYI – At the end of 1994 there
By Steven Mallas growing, and with 37.5% of all were 12,655 FDIC insured
(BloggingStocks) Two more banks failed on Bank b a n k s o v e r e x p o s e d t o institutions, by Q4 2001 we were
Submitted at 9/21/2009 8:30:00 AM Failure Friday Commercial Real Estate Loans its down to 9,613 and at the end of
There are now 94 failed banks tough for the FDIC to depend Q2 2009 we are at 8,195. I am in
Filed under: General Electric in 2009 on our way to 500 to 800 upon the remainder of the banks.
(GE), Time Warner (TWX), Sony favor of an orderly bank
bank failures into 2011 / 2012. Following the two bank failures consolidation.
Corp ADR (SNE), News Corp'B' Irwin Union Bank & Trust ( last Friday, I would the DIF in
(NWS), Film, Lions Gate We Need Mark-To-Market
IFC) was on the ValuEngine List arrears by an estimated $3.7 Accounting
Entertainment (LGF) of Problem Banks with C&D and billion. Remember that the FDIC
Sony(NYSE: SNE) had a tasty FASB met last in August to
CRE risk versus Tier One capital told me that they do not keep discuss whether or not banks
weekend. The studio's new ratios of 155% and 625% versus track of the DIF on a daily basis.
computer-generated cartoon, should value nearly all financial
the regulatory guidelines of 100% To Fix the Banking System, I instruments on their balance
Cloudy with a Chance of and 300%.
Meatballs, finished the box-office Say, Bring Back Glass-Steagall sheets, including loans, at a
There are more than 3,000 The Glass-Steagall Act was market value, and to reflect them
race in first place. According to banks with this dilemma, and 763 passed in 1933 in reaction to the
Boxofficemojo, Meatballs(and I in earnings.
are publicly traded and make up collapse of a large portion of the Securities are either “Held to
am only shortening the title to the ValuEngine List of Problem American commercial banking
Meatballs because, from what I've Maturity” or “Held for Trading”.
Banks. system in early 1933. Isn’t it The former requires additional
seen, most media outlets are using The FDIC Needs to Increase the interesting that since the act was
this standard; as far as I'm capital, while the latter requires
Depleted Deposit Insurance Fund reversed in November 1999, all mark to market. The idea of
concerned, the movie should be As I predicted, the FDIC is we have had since are bubble after
shortened to Cloudy so as to avoid Do Bad All By Myself settled into having off balance sheet items
the second and third spots, considering tapping its $500 bubble, which nearly destroyed just makes the big banks bigger,
confusion with the classic Bill billion temporary line of credit
Murray comedy), made $30 respectively. These two could with the US Treasury. Their the big banks since The Great and that’s where there are many
million at domestic theaters as of conceivably change places once Credit Crunch began at the end of ticking financial time bombs.
final stats are delivered to permanent line has been raised to 2007. Banks obviously oppose such a
early estimates. Don't worry, $100 billion from $30 billion, and
though; even if the estimates analysts. Our banking regulators allowed change. FASB will release a
Continue reading Sony tops at funds will be needed as 500 to the big banks to create $205 proposal in the first half of 2010. I
come in a little lighter than 800 community and regional are trillion in notional amount of
expected, Sony is going to remain the multiplex with 'Meatballs' say you have to use mark to
top dog. Sony tops at the multiplex with set to fall like dominoes. derivative contracts by the end of market accounting, and we better
'Meatballs' originally appeared on It seems to me that if the FDIC Q 2 2 0 0 9 . T h e s e r i d i c u l o u s get used to it.
That's because the next two taps the Treasury without
films on the chart are each BloggingStocks on Mon, 21 Sep charging the banking industry, contracts did not take off until Disclosure: I Hold No Positions
credited with around $10 million. 2009 08:30:00 EST. Please see which it has the authority to do a f t e r 1 9 9 9 . A t t h e e n d o f in the Stocks I Cover.
Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) our terms for use of feeds. Read| December 2001 there were just
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Microsoft to release free security software soon

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 7:07:00 AM
Microsoft plans to release the
final version of its free antivirus
software "in the coming weeks"
according to a note sent to testers
late Sunday.
"The final version of Microsoft
Security Essentials will be
released to the public in the
coming weeks," Microsoft said in
the note.
Microsoft first announced its
plans for the product, then code-
named Morro, last November, at
the same time it said it was
scrapping its paid Windows Live
OneCare product.
Public beta testing of Security
Essentials started in June, with
Microsoft reaching its goal of
75,000 testers just one day after it
issued a call for testers.
On a personal note, I've been save my bacon a couple weeks
using the product on several back when I almost caught
machines since June and like the Koobface from a friend on
way--unlike other antivirus Facebook.
programs--it doesn't make a
spectacle of itself, just quietly
doing its thing. I often forget it is
running on a machine, but it did
20 Economy/
Do We Really Need a Global Central Bank?
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 5:54:02 AM
Do we need one king to rule
over us all?
In Business Week, Jeffrey
Garten makes an incredibly weak
case for a global central bank.
Either Garten has spent far too
much time watching Barefoot
Contessa at his insular ivory
tower in New Haven, or he’s been
preparing for Ina’s meals with
securities trader Irv Rosenfeld.
Let’s break down Garten’s
baseless opinion:
1. A global central bank is “a
necessity in today’s complex,
interconnected world economy.”
If we have transacted trillions of
dollars of economic activity
across the globe for centuries,
how could a global central bank
(GCB) be a “necessity”? Garten
says a GCB is a necessity because
“each successive crisis [over the
past 30 years], has been worse
than the last.” First, the data set
was cherry picked. When making
the case for a global governing
body, let’s look back further than
when Madonna became a star.
If we merely look back to the
inception of the US Federal
Reserve, there were at least a
couple events which trump
Garten’s evidence: The Great
Depression (1929) and The OPEC
Oil Crisis (1973). In this context,
one could reasonably argue that
sovereign nations have evolved to
prevent “crises” from evolving
into devastation. For all the talk
about The Great Depression 2, I
don’t see any comparable
unemployment rates or bread
lines. Hell, Applebee’s is full on
Friday nights.
2. “Private financial institutions
compete too fiercely for markets
and profits to regulate
themselves.” As Alan Greenspan
learned in a moment of
bewildered revelation, Garten’s
assertion has been absolutely
proven correct during the recent
financial crisis. However,
appointing another elite oligarchy
to control the levers of the global
economy is hardly the best or only
option. For example, if the US
Federal Reserve has caused
several bubbles and decreased the
value of the US Dollar over 95%
since inception (1913), please
explain why we need an
additional group of private
interests making decisions for our
citizenry? Clearly, we simply
need competent regulators. We
don’t need more incompetent
regulators regulating already
incompetent regulators.
3. “Governmental oversight
remains national, while financial
institutions are more globally
intertwined.” Again, this is true.
However, Garten starts his article
by stating, “They [the G-20] can
congratulate themselves for
averting a 1930’s style
meltdown.” If the current model
of cooperating sovereigns
prevented a genuine Great
Depression, Garten begs the
question why in the world we
would need a GCB?? Garten
continues, “But nothing the G-20
has done, or is likely to do, will
prevent or substantially moderate
the next global crisis.” Nothing?
The most powerful 20 countries in
the world can do “nothing” to
prevent the next global crisis?
Why? Are they incompetent? Can
they not look at the basic causes
of the previous crisis and recode
our laws to prevent the damaging
behavior?
We must first show we can
figure out an effective set of rules
in our national financial systems
before we should claim a GCB
can do better. Otherwise, we are
saying poor oversight (e.g., no-
doc loans, Mortgage Backed
Securities with AAA-Ratings) and
loose money under the Greenspan
Fed led to the second worst
financial crisis in 100 years, but
we need a similar institution, an
additional level removed, to now
make decisions on behalf of the
entire world economy. Or, it is
like saying, “My business model
is failing in the US, but let’s
expand globally!” This logic does
not pass the laugh test.
Speaking of logic, if we follow
Garten’s support for US Treasury
Secretary Tim Geithner’s logic
“we need a common global
solution to these markets, not
separate regional solutions,” such
logic would bring all human
behavior under the jurisdiction of
a world government (merely
replace the term “these markets”
with your subject of choice —
e.g., crime, communication, etc.).
Like local real estate markets, all
regional economies produce and
consume different goods/services
and reflect different values. To
assert we need a common global
solution to local cultural and
resource-driven transactions is to
choose homogeneous
authoritarianism over local
democracy and culture.
Although the economy is global,
it is comprised of individual
nations or, as Thomas Jefferson
called them, “factions.”
According to our Founding
Fathers, these competing factions
are what prevent tyranny.
Moreover, individual nations are
comprised of individual citizens
who produce and consume.
Therefore, national governments
have an incentive to work with
other nations to create best
practices and customs to increase
trade, wealth, standards of living,
and ultimately the politicians’
cake: taxes.
But Gartner says, “the reaction
of governments working together,
even in good faith, is too slow,
diffuse, and compromised by
national political pressures to
result in anything but actions that
are too little, too late.” First,
national politics and cultures
matter. Second, again Gartner
uses another absolute statement to
falsely assert that without a GCB
all individual nations will always
act too late. Too late for what?
Perfection? Why can’t individual
nations continue to diplomatically
negotiate in their best interests
and over time, through trial and
error, work out best practices
amidst a real-time global
experiment? While lying on the
soft spring grass in the Yale quad,
Gartner must be dreaming he and
a team of enlightened despots can
govern over 6 billion people
according to yet another model
which is an imprecise derivative
of reality.
4. A GCB would be better than
the current system. Gartner says
we need a GCB to “bring together
the different regulatory
approaches of the US, EU, and
China.” If certain common sense
rules create stable economies
(e.g., capital requirements,
limiting leverage, requiring proof
of one’s ability to repay loans,
etc.), regulators of all G-20
countries will adopt these rules. A
GCB is not needed.
Gartner also says we need a
GCB to monitor “any major
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financial institution whose failure
could bring down the system” and
“setting standards for debt-to-
equity ratios for the biggest
institutions.” If national central
banks are supposed to do this at
home, it logically follows that
such a task is already assigned.
The issue is whether the current
central banks are doing their job.
We can file grievances with
Congress to fix this problem. A
GCB would be redundant.
My Conclusion: For better or
worse, the citizens of the world do
not need a handful of unelected
power brokering politicians
wielding power over our
sovereign nations. At least the US
central bank is subject to
Congressional oversight. Thus,
we can demand our elected reps
govern the Federal Reserve (e.g.,
The Federal Reserve
Transparency Act, H.R. 1207). If
every country in the world were
subjects of a GCB, how much
power will US citizens have when
calling a local legislator? I’ll give
you a hint: less power than a 100-
year old man in a Red Light
District without Viagra.
Instead of proposing silly
theoretical jibber-jabber, let’s
work on creating minimum capital
reserve and leverage limitation
requirements which will prevent
crises. Let’s establish laws that
people can borrow only what they
can afford to pay back (with
interest). Let’s legitimize these
borrowers by requiring proof of
income and expenses. Let’s create
a Congressional Committee to
scrutinize exotic and new
financial products produced by
financiers (to insure they are not
complete legal scams). Let’s
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Art.view: Bedfellows continued from page 20
worry about whether our central
(The Economist: Daily Cent II (Diptych)”, which depicts diptych. The singletons are as the world’s most expensive bank has fulfilled its four
columns) aisle upon aisle of garishly principally in museums, so Victor photographer is often justified government delegated duties (it
Submitted at 9/20/2009 3:08:55 PM packaged bargains in a Los Pinchuk, a Ukrainian steel with reference to painting. has not — see “ Has the Federal
Angeles shop. The ironic clash of billionaire who acquired the “Gursky is not simply a Reserve Failed?“) before we kiss
Art.view high price and cheap subject record-priced diptych (and now photographer fiddling around in the ring of Jeffrey Garten’s
Sep 20th 2009 matter couldn’t be louder. owns a reputed 30 or so Gurskys, Photoshop,” asserts Andrew uberbank oligarchs.
From Economist.com Two Conceptually, it is not unlike over 50 Hirsts and about a dozen Renton, an art consultant who has
artists who understand the beauty Warhol’s Campbell’ s Soup can. by Koons), was willing to bid acquired Gursky works on behalf
of business The lowliest form of consumption through the roof. Other collectors of clients. “You need to think
“Being good in business is the is transformed into the loftiest. said to own Gursky in depth are about him as a classical painter
most fascinating kind of art,” said Few would claim that “99 Cent Eli Broad in Los Angeles, and a master of the impossible
Andy Warhol. “Making money is II (Diptych)” was Mr Gursky’s
art... and good business is the best most important work. Other
Mitchell Rales in Washington,
DC, and Bernard Arnault in Paris.
perspective. That’s why he broke
the ceiling of photography prices.
Today's a big
art.” Warhol is probably the most photos, such as “Tokyo Stock
influential postwar artist. During Exchange” or “Montparnasse”,
Collectors are no doubt drawn
to Mr Gursky’s key subject
When his works were selling for
$100,000, I thought it was crazy,
shipping day
the boom his work accounted for better epitomise the artist’s way matter: big business. From his then when they hit a million, it (Scripting News)
some of the highest prices and of portraying the chaos of the dizzying depictions of the world didn’t seem so strange.” Submitted at 9/20/2009 9:31:28 AM
largest turnovers. As the Tate c r o w d i n a n o r d e r l y g r i d . of high finance through his busy Seriality is integral to the work
Modern prepares its autumn Moreover, the diptych version of factories to his Prada retail stores and market of both artists. Most I didn't plan it this way, but a lot
blockbuster, a group show called “99 Cents” was made in 2001, and container shipyards, he of Mr Gursky’s photos come in of stuff is ready all at once.
“ Pop Life: Art in a Material two years after the original single surveys the intriguing patterns of editions of six with two artist’s Over the day I'll link them in
World” (to open on October 1st), image (pictured above), and well the commercial landscape. With proofs—a strategic number that here. They will also appear in
critics are considering Warhol’s after his seminal compositions of the exception of the odd dollar- balances rarity with the kudos of various other places such as the
legacy. They tend to point to the the early 1990s. Dealers explain sign painting or commissioned collective endorsement, so rssCloud mail list, on Twitter, and
colourful Pop aesthetics of artists t h e r e c o r d p r i c e b y i t s portrait of a businessman, Warhol collectors can be reassured by the I'm not sure where else.
such as Jeff Koons and Takashi presentation at auction at the never integrated his interest in network of other institutions and 1. A rssCloud walkthrough for
Murakami and the rigorous height of the boom, in February business into his work. But like individuals who possess the same publishers. This doc is a shortcut
seriality of Damien Hirst. Yet 2 0 0 7 . B u t p e r h a p s i t ’ s n o Mr Gursky’s, Warhol’s art is piece. However, to the relief of for publishers so they don't have
they often neglect an artist who is coincidence that Mr Gursky’s driven by its content. “Warhol his dealers, Mr Gursky is not half to wade through the michegas that
similarly obsessed with the most expensive work is also his was one of the first artists to bring as prolific as Warhol was. Warhol cloud and aggregator developers
material world, and who has also most Pop. subject matter back into art after died at 58 leaving some 10,000 do.
made a reliable business out of his Many of Mr Gursky’s Abstract Expressionism,” explains works; his market was often 2. A self-documenting OPML
art: Andreas Gursky. supporters are also Pop art Cheyenne Westphal of Sotheby's. swamped during his lifetime. reading list of real-time photo
Warhol’s close-up portraits of collectors. If they don’t own “He documented and manipulated The affinities between the artists feeds. Lots of new stuff working
the famous might seem very far Warhol, they collect his progeny his world just as Gursky may have nothing to do with Mr here. I also added a photo feed for
a w a y f r o m M r G u r s k y ’ s (ie, Messrs Koons and Hirst), so documents and manipulates ours. Gursky’s intent. The evidence television, in anticipation of the
anonymously populated urban works such as “99 Cents” can be They are both history painters of may even be circumstantial. But Emmies tonight.
landscapes, but the two artists an important bridge in the sorts.” there is no question that Mr 3. DNS for RSS feeds. I have a
share a deadpan neutrality to their collection. Moreover, while any At first people were unwilling to Gursky’s art flows through the proof of concept app up, for you
subjects. Neither are “critical”, collector who buys Gursky in accept Warhol’s silkscreens as world in a Warholian way. to try out and comment on.
per se, and this is an important depth could settle on one or two paintings, because they were Back to top ^^ Readers' N. And last but not least, and I
ingredient in their widespread of a number of stock-exchange created mechanically without a comments had nothing to do with this one --
appeal. (Art aficionados generally images—Tokyo, Singapore, Hong trace of the artist’s hand. Their The Economist welcomes your the Scobles shipped another
prefer to make up their own Kong, Kuwait and four different admission into the hallowed halls views. Scobleizer last night. Baby and
minds.) The highest price ever works made in Chicago—there of art helped open the door to mommy are happy and healthy,
paid for a photograph, £1.7m are only two versions of “99 limited-edition large-scale and according to daddy, cute.
($3.3m), was for Mr Gursky’s “99 Cents”, the single photo and the photography. Mr Gursky’s status Happy birthday Ryan! It's nice to
have you on board for this crazy
thing we call life.
22 Economy/ TV Picture
Iran: Still angry
(The Economist: News
analysis)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 2:19:57 AM
Iran
Sep 21st 2009
From Economist.com Iran's anti
-government protesters take to the
streets again
JERUSALEM Day, a traditional
time for fellow Muslims to show
solidarity with the Palestinians,
provided the opportunity for the
Iranian opposition’s first big
march for several weeks. People
sneaked green ribbons into their
pockets, anxious to demonstrate
their support for Iran’s Green
Wave opposition movement but
equally keen to avoid a beating
from government militia. But as
the crowds swelled, people
became bolder and anti-
government chants rang out.
Hardliners in the government
did their best to intimidate their
opponents in the days before the
demonstrations on Friday
September 18th. Rumours
circulated that opposition leaders
such as Mir Hossein Mousavi,
who says he won the disputed
presidential election in June, and
Mehdi Karroubi would be
arrested. The Revolutionary
Guards made threats against
“rioters” who might abuse the day
with their protests. Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader,
Jane After Dark: Fringe, season one - pudding, ZFT, and The Observer
By Jane Boursaw (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 9:00:00 AM
In anticipation of the season two
premiere of Fringe last week (read
my review and your comments
here), I revisited season one to
refresh my brain. There are so
gave warning that Jerusalem Day
belonged to that city alone and
that no other slogans were to be
used.
But this year, the day was co-
opted by the opposition. The
rallies did not draw the hundreds
of thousands who poured onto the
streets after June's elections, but
the crowds were different from
the usual small groups of pro-
government supporters who fill
the streets to protest against Israel
and the West. On Friday cries of
“Death to Russia” and “Death to
China” replaced the usual chants
against Israel and America, in
response to warming attitudes by
those countries to Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad's regime. Shouts of
“not Gaza, not Lebanon, I'll only
give my life for Iran” showed that
the Iranian government's hope
that the day only celebrated
solidarity with the Palestinians
was in vain.
Mr Ahmadinejad did his best to
deflect attention from the political
unrest still rumbling in Iran. His
speech on Friday revived his
favoured vitriol against Israel and
questioning of the Holocaust. This
kind of posturing plays well with
many of his supporters but, during
an outdoor interview broadcast on
Iranian state television after his
speech, shouts of “Ahmadi,
Ahmadi resign!” directed at the
president could be heard clearly.
many subtleties that connect
seasons one and two, and it was
good to go back and watch it
again.
While there were a few creature
-feature episodes that appeared to
be stand-alones (but who really
knows with this show?), for the
Meanwhile, in his address for
Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking
the end of Ramadan, the Muslim
month of fasting, Mr Khamenei
seemed anxious to shore up his
own position, shaky since his
overt support for Mr Ahmadinejad
after the disputed presidential
election. He proclaimed
defensively that the West had
failed in its attempts to undermine
Iran’s government with
opposition rallies on Friday.
As Mr Ahmadinejad prepares to
go to New York for the United
Nations’ General Assembly, he
leaves behind him a country still
seething with frustration and
opposition to his government.
Iran’s nuclear programme will be
at the forefront of discussions. As
relations between Russia and
America are appearing to thaw
after Barack Obama’s calls to
scrap a missile-defence shield in
Poland and the Czech Republic,
Iran will be watching carefully to
see if Russia is any more willing
to join America in criticising its
nuclear and missile programmes.
At the same time Iran continues
to downplay the threat it poses. In
an interview last week with NBC,
an American television network,
Mr Ahmadinejad avoided direct
questions about Iran’s nuclear
programme, saying that Iran saw
no need for any such weapons.
And on Sunday Mr Khamenei
most part, much of season one
blasted America’s missile-defence
plan, describing the West’s fears
over potential Iranian nuclear
weapons as “pure fabrication” on
the part of America.
Mr Ahmadinejad’s trip to New
York may affect his image at
home. There seems little doubt
that his speech to the UN General
Assembly will contain the
customary fiery bombast that has
proved popular among Iranians in
the past. Though many Iranians
thoroughly dislike their
belligerent president and are
embarrassed by his posturing,
playing up to Iranian national
pride and the country’s desire to
stand up to meddling foreign
powers has served him well in the
past. So too have his calls for
Iran’s rights to nuclear weapons.
He will hope to take advantage
of this again at the UN this week.
But as the protests against his
government show no signs of
dying away and as many of his
opponents remain locked up,
people in Iran will be less worried
about their rights to nuclear
weapons and more concerned
about their political rights at
home.
Back to top ^^ Readers'
comments
The Economist welcomes your
views.
was devoted to weaving an
intricate mystery and setting
things up for season two. It's too
much, really, for one small blog
post, but a few things sprang to
mind ...
Continue reading Jane After
Dark: Fringe, season one -
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Blogs the Emmy
Awards
By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/20/2009 7:30:00 PM
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p;altcast_code=9bfe31b125"
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By Zack Sheppard (Flickr Blog)
Submitted at 9/20/2009 1:26:49 PM
• About Flickr
Flickr is a revolution in photo
storage, sharing and organization,
making photo management an
easy, natural and collaborative
process. Get comments, notes,
and tags on your photos, post to
any blog, share and more!
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Five Charts to Rule Them All: The Coffee House Guide to
U.S. Macro Trends
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 5:35:25 AM
This is the latest in our weekly
Five Charts to Rule them All
series. Here we look at 5 charts
that are representative of the
financial markets. The idea is to
step out of the day to day trading
activities and take a look at the
markets from a consistent high
level perspective once a week.
We take a walk down to one of
the excellent local cafes, order up
our lattes, cappuccinos, and
biscotti, look up the charts on our
iPhones and discuss. We will look
at complementary indexes,
individual stocks, etc.. these
charts are just the starting point.
This is a tradition begun at
Monmouth's in Covent Garden,
London, and continues to this day
(minus the iPhones at the start of
course). There is something about
the smell of roasting coffee beans,
and the sight of rake-thin, earnest,
left-wing academic types that
stimulates discussion about free
markets
And so on to the short
discussion.
We think that the trends that
began late last year are still in
place. Reviewing the extended
rallies seen in some asset classes,
we have a feeling that
retracements might be in order.
Markets rarely rise in a straight
line & the odd retracement here
and there is a normal trading
pattern. At the moment our belief
is that a short rally in the USD
(perhaps around 2%) may occur,
we think this will be short as is no
corresponding weakness in
emerging market currencies or
bonds. Using history as our guide,
tradable strength in the USD is
usually preceded by weakness in
relatively illiquid emerging
market assets.
Firstly we look at equity
markets using the Value Line.
Such an impressive rise usually
brings in calls of "overbought" -
maybe, but we guess that it is
going to stay overbought for some
time.
Next on to the Bond markets.
Economy/ 23
specialised Real Estate and
Construction indexes and
companies and see how broad the
momentum is.
Some will find value in the
above, others will consider it
more worthless than that bit of
tripe and cheese I found inside my
grandfathers discarded, long
forgotten meat safe.
Human beings, who are almost
unique in having the ability to
learn from the experience of
others, are also remarkable for
their apparent disinclination to do
so.- Douglas Adams.
So, to finish off, a couple of
things you could take-away from
this. Firstly, get yourself an
iPhone if you have not already
done so. You will never be bored
again. Secondly, learn from
others. By others we don't mean
us (that would be just a tad
pretentious), but the markets. Try
our exercise of looking at the
action of buyers and sellers across
The pattern of the Value Line is mentioned above we do expect multiple markets and see if you
repeated here, with the rise the odd retracement here and come to the same conclusion as
beginning one month earlier. there on this downwards spiral. us. Strangely, the best place we
S e e i n g h i g h y i e l d b o n d s Due to the importance of the US have found for this is the best
c o n t i n u i n g t o o u t p e r f o r m dollar to international trade, the coffee house within walking
investment grade bonds is one of speed of this decline is bound to distance (did I mention that we
the main reasons behind our have implicaitons for the global have iPhones?).
bullish outlook. economy. Our conclusion, at the moment
Next onto the Commodity Next onto Real Estate - we have is that we would not be surprised
markets. These continue their chosen Real Estate as this sector by some retracement, we are not
sideways momentum, neither was one of the main causes of the expecting this to be material (or a
breaking down, nor breaking out. recent economic downturn. We tradeable trend reversal). So any
Our current view is that the next are pretty sure that its recent downside we would take as an
break will be to the upside. performance has taken many by accumulation opportunity.
Next onto the currency markets, surpise (we stand amongst the Disclosure: Long VTI, DBC,
in particular the USD. Is any one suprised). It may be well worth JNK, LQD, UDN, TBT, IYR.
actually bullish US dollar? As your time reviewing some of the
24 Economy/ Tech Blog Gadgets/ Internet News Record

The coming days: The week ahead Fuck you John Edwards
(The Economist: News many world leaders for the UN See article (Scripting News) the mother of his out-of-wedlock
analysis) General Assembly, hosts a • LEADERS of the G20 group of Submitted at 9/20/2009 4:53:56 PM child as soon as the wife dies, in a
Submitted at 9/20/2009 1:27:12 AM summit on the environment on rich and developing countries take rooftop ceremony with Dave
Tuesday September 22nd, as a part in a two-day summit in I read the front page story on Matthews providing the music.
The coming days part of the build up to the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, John Edwards with delight, as I'm This is the end of John Edwards,
Sep 20th 2009 Copenhagen world climate beginning on Thursday September sure many others did. who if he could have kept the act
From Economist.com A general conference in December. Of most 24th. The host, Mr Obama, is Yes it is news, to those who ask, up a bit longer might have been
election in Germany, and other significance is the presence of expected to urge his counterparts because he came close to being the Attorney General of the
news China’s president, Hu Jintao, who to stick with co-ordinated VP, and was a serious candidate United States. He's fucked. And
• A GENERAL election in will unveil the country’s latest stimulus measures to provide a for President and the press was maybe we should reflect on just
Germany on Sunday September plans for tackling global warming. continuing boost for slowly ignoring the story until they how fucked up we are that we go
27th looks set to return Angela See article recovering economies. The couldn't ignore it any more. f o r t h a t k i n d o f n o n s e n s e .
Merkel for another stint as • BARACK OBAMA has a busy French leader, Nicolas Sarkozy, is I remember when Edwards Edwards was our ideal of what a
chancellor. But Frank-Walter w e e k a t t h e U N G e n e r a l keen to push the idea of Tobin came to speak at Gnomedex and c a n d i d a t e s h o u l d b e . A
Steinmeier’s Social Democratic Assembly. He addresses the body taxes. Other issues high on the everyone said he was great and he commercial product advertised on
Party, which has ruled as part of a on Wednesday September 23rd agenda are the regulation of the s h o u l d h a v e a w e b c a m TV with the judgement of a con
grand coalition, is hoping to the day after an expected round of global financial system and the everywhere but in the bathroom artist. Just the kind of guy we
prevent her forming a new meetings involving Israel’s prime vexed question of how to and bedroom. They wanted the w a n t a h e a r t b e a t f r o m t h e
c o a l i t i o n w i t h t h e F r e e minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, moderate bonuses handed to transparent candidate. He thought P r e s i d e n c y . N o t .
Democratic Party after the vote. and Mahmoud Abbas, president bankers. it was a good idea. Yes this is a front page story
Ms Merkel's reluctance to say of the Palestinian Authority. Mr See article Now we know for sure, but I because who Edwards is says so
what the new coalition would Obama’s strategy for the Middle Back to top ^^ Readers' thought so for sure then, nothing much about who we are. Edwards
actually stand for may encourage East will no doubt come under comments about the guy was real. His story is a good serious look in the
some voters to support Mr scrutiny in the usual annual The Economist welcomes your was good, too good. His wife has mirror.
Steimeier instead. diatribe against America and the views. cancer. Meanwhile, according to
See article West delivered to the UN by the Times he's promising to marry
• BAN KI-MOON, taking Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s
advantage of the presence of leader, on Wednesday.

No Wonder Goldman Continues to Climb

(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:58:36 AM
I sold my Goldman Sachs ( GS)
shares about two weeks ago after
a decent gain and moved the
funds into the more diverse SSO
ETF. But I am now kicking
myself as Goldman continues to
rally to new highs and analysts
upgrade their expectations for the
dominant investment bank. Past
Quarter Performance
Goldman Sachs has rallied over
the past six months from near $90
a share to now over $175 a share
with a recent burst from the $160
range. This rally has occurred as
profits have improved steadily
and analysts have upgraded the
company’s expectations for future
quarters. The company has beat
expectations the past two quarters
after having a terrible November
2008 report. But the turnaround
has been quick and explosive.
They fell to a $5 loss per share in
November of 2008 to only turn
around and report a $3.39 profit in
March and then an even better
$4.93 profit in June. And now
analysts are steadily increasing
their expectations for September,
December, and the current year.
Profit Estimates
Plus the stock is trading around a
price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 39
with these two quarters growing
at 100% and 189% respectively.
No wonder the stock continues to
move higher. Goldman Sachs
Trade
I think you can be long
Seagate’s new 2TB
Goldman up until the next hard drive pushes
earnings release and even hold the
position through the release with 6Gb/s transfer speed
Estimates for the current quarter some put protection in place. The By Doug Aamoth
have risen over the past 3 months Wall Street Journal reported last (CrunchGear)
from $2.59 a share in profit to a Monday that Goldman led all Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:05:00 AM
recently adjusted $3.62 profit. stocks in selling into strength so
Likewise the following quarter you should wait for a pull-back Seagate’s just busted through
has improved expectations from and begin to build a position as
$3.25 a share to $4.43 a share. the stocks sells off slightly.
SEAGATE’S page 25
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SEAGATE’S
continued from page 24
that swing-down arm thing
commonly found at tollbooths and
for-pay parking lots. In the wake
of thousands of little wooden
splinters, we observe Seagate
sticking its hairy arm out the
driver’s side window, fist
clenched but for a solitary index
finger pointing skyward, as if to
say, “I’m number one.”
Number one, of course, in the
“First To Reach 6Gb/s Transfer
Speed In a 2TB Desktop SATA
Hard Drive” contest.
And so we have the Seagate
Barracuda XT, a 2TB SATA hard
drive with a maximum transfer
speed of 6Gb/s – double the
previous maximum transfer speed.
It’s got 64MB of cache, a 7200
RPM spindle speed, and is
backwards-compatible with 3Gb/s
controller interfaces.
Shipping out now, should be
available soon-ish for $299. I
can’t find it available for purchase
anywhere online yet but it is
indeed shipping.
Full press release:
Seagate Ships World’s Fastest
Desktop Hard Drive; First Drive
to Feature Serial ATA
6Gbit/Second Technology
Seagate Barracuda XT, the
world’s fastest desktop hard drive
featuring the blazing fast Serial
ATA 6Gb/s interface.
(PRNewsFoto/Seagate)
SCOTTS VALLEY, CA
UNITED STATES
Seagate Teams With
Technology Leaders to Bring
SATA 6Gbit/s Complete
Solutions to Market
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.,
Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
— Seagate Technology (Nasdaq:
STX) today began global
shipments of the world’s fastest,
largest-capacity mainstream
desktop hard drive –
Barracuda(R) XT, a 7200RPM
product featuring 2TB of storage
capacity and a blazing fast Serial
ATA (SATA) 6Gb/second
interface. The 3.5-inch desktop
drive, the industry’s first to
feature a SATA 6Gb/s interface,
meets the capacity demands of
gaming, digital video-
environments and other storage-
hungry desktop computing
applications while delivering the
highest performance in its class.
The introduction of the
Barracuda XT drive marks the
shift to the next generation of
desktop computing speed as
Seagate doubles the storage
bandwidth of current computers.
“Capacity and performance
remain the defining attributes of
hard drives for PC gamers, digital
multimedia content developers
and many other customers
requiring high-end systems at
home and in the office,” said
Dave Mosley, executive vice
president of Sales and Marketing
at Seagate. “Seagate is meeting
these requirements with the first
7200RPM desktop hard drive to
combine 2TB of storage capacity
with the fastest Serial ATA
interface to date.”
The Barracuda XT product, a
four-platter drive featuring an
areal density of 368 Gigabits per
square inch, delivers the highest
performance – burst speeds of up
to 6 Gigabits per second – for all
PC applications, maintains
backward compatibility with the
SATA 3Gb/second and SATA
1.5Gb/second interfaces, and uses
the same cables and connectors as
previous SATA generations to
ease integration. The hard drive’s
SATA 6Gb/s interface enables
system builders using SATA
6Gb/s drive controllers to build
high-performance desktop PCs,
full-tilt gaming rigs, and home
and small business servers, and its
64MB cache optimizes burst
performance and data transfer
speeds.
“Marvell is pleased to be
announcing the industry’s first
commercially available SATA
6Gb/s solution and working with
Seagate to introduce this
technology,” said Dr. Alan J.
Armstrong, vice president of
Marketing, Business Storage
Group at Marvell. “Marvell has
been working with a broad group
of partners and customers to bring
this solution to market. As early
adopters of Marvell’s SATA
6Gb/s technology, both ASUS
and GIGABYTE offer
motherboards to complement
SATA 6Gb/s hard drives.”
The Serial ATA 6Gb/s Solution:
Barracuda XT Drives and
Motherboards from ASUS and
GIGABYTE
With Barracuda XT drives and
SATA 6Gb/s motherboards from
ASUS and Gigabyte, computer
makers can build the highest-
performance PCs, workstations
and entry-level servers. ASUS
was first to market with a SATA
6Gb/s motherboard; the
company’s P7P55D Premium
began shipping in August. The
new GIGABYTE P55 series GA-
P55-Extreme motherboards are
also now shipping.
“At ASUS, we are once again at
the forefront of innovation by
being the first to launch a native
SATA 6Gb/s interface on a
motherboard,” said Joe Hsieh,
corporate vice president & general
manager, Motherboard Business
Unit & Desktop Business Unit,
ASUS. “An expansion bridge
integrated into the P7P55D
Premium helps achieve real
SATA 6Gb/s throughput to
support bandwidth-hungry
applications. The ASUS solution
eliminates transmission
bottlenecks in current technology
and ensures users truly enjoy
faster data speeds and double the
storage bandwidth. For other
P7P55D Series models, ASUS
also provides an expansion card to
achieve the same results.”
“GIGABYTE has worked
closely with our partners Seagate
and Marvell in making the highly
anticipated SATA 6Gb/s
technology a reality,” said Tony
Liao, associate vice president of
Marketing at GIGABYTE
TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. “As
the leader in motherboard
innovation, GIGABYTE is always
excited to bring the very latest
technologies to market, and with
the release of the world’s first
SATA 6Gb/s hard drive from
Seagate, our customers’
expectations will be blown away
with double-the-bandwidth
performance for lightning-fast
data transfer and storage.”
Seagate to Demonstrate Serial
ATA 6Gb/s Technology at IDF
Seagate will demonstrate SATA
6Gb/s technology with technology
partners at the Serial ATA
International Organization (SATA
-IO) booth, #425, at IDF,
September 22 – 24 at the
Moscone Center in San Francisco,
California.
Tech Reviews 25
Reducing threats for
Net-linked security
cameras, ATMs
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 4:00:00 AM
ICSA Labs, which sets standards
for commercial security products,
plans to announce on Monday a
new program for helping
corporations protect themselves
from attacks and snooping via
Internet-connected devices such
as printers, copiers, ATMs, and
security cameras.
Under the ICSA Labs Network
Attached Peripheral Security
Certification and Assessment
program, experts will evaluate
devices used in corporations and
work with vendors to help them
understand the inherent security
risks to Internet-connected
devices, said George Japak,
managing director of ICSA Labs,
which is an independent division
of Verizon Business.
The devices targeted are not
those that are part of the
computing network infrastructure,
like desktops, servers, and routers.
"There is a lot of functionality
on those devices being centrally
managed and controlled via an
Internet connection, and those
Internet connections can be
compromised," he said. "These
unsecured devices are as much of
a risk as an unsecured server
sitting out on your network."
Remote attackers can exploit
weaknesses in software to
remotely steal data that sits on the
devices, such as sensitive
documents that someone has
printed or copied. But the devices
can also be used to propagate
malware across the network, he
said.
26 Gadgets/
Netgear Stora NAS Shares Your Files...on the Web! [Storage]
By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:08:26 AM
Netgear's Stora is, on one hand,
a typical 2-bay NAS. For $230,
you get a 1TB of storage along
with an extra bay for expansion
for automatic RAID mirroring.
But it's the easy online file
sharing that's special.
Instead of making users learn
the ins and outs of FTP, Netgear
has set up a graphic-driven
MyStora.com through which the
drive can be accessed. So the
effect is like a NAS light that the
less tech inclined might enjoy. (If
your parents or parents' parents
can handle email, chances are
they can handle this NAS.)
There's also some premium
service Netgear offers that
involves mobile phones and flickr
for $20/year.
Luckily the NAS isn't gimpled,
supporting Macs/PCs/Linuxes and
DLNA/UPnP/iTunes media
sharing. But there is one pretty
big catch. It seems the Stora's
expansion is limited exclusively
to mirroring, meaning that you
can't add a second drive to double
capacity. And that sorta kills the
fun, doesn't it? [ Stora]
NETGEAR's Stora Brings Easy-
to-Use, Internet-connected
Storage to Consumers
Everywhere
New Storage Device with
Remote Access Enables Home
Users to Share Photos with
Friends without Uploading to
Internet Sites
SAN JOSE, Calif. - September
21, 2009 - NETGEAR, Inc.
(NASDAQGM: NTGR), a
worldwide provider of
technologically innovative,
branded networking solutions, and
network storage leader in the
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Store: Compatible with Mac, PC
and Linux systems, NETGEAR's
Stora puts music, movies, photos,
and files at the heart of the home
network, centralized in a single,
safe location.
Share: With remote access via
www.MyStora.com, Stora enables
cross-platform file sharing, music
listening, movie watching and
photo sharing from any Internet-
connected device. In addition to
sharing files over the web, users
can also share photos, videos and
files between home computers
and home media players. Stora
can centralize music collections
and play music through iTunes. It
can also automatically integrate
content with remote photo frames
and social networking sites such
as Facebook. Stora can also serve
content to other networked
devices such as Digital Living
Network Alliance (DLNA)-
enabled photo frames, XBox 360
and PlayStation 3 game consoles,
and iPhone and Blackberry
mobile phones.
Protect: With two standard drive
bays that automatically mirror
data, Stora offers plug-and-play
protection that safeguards
valuable data. Users can simply
add a second drive, on the fly,
business and prosumer market Internet sites or transferring them "NETGEAR has already made its without any tools. Stora also
with its ReadyNAS line, today over email. Through an intuitive m a r k i n t h e b u s i n e s s a n d comes with automatic backup
announced NETGEAR Stora, a and graphical user interface on p r o s u m e r m a r k e t w i t h o u r utilities for PCs and Macs, so
new, easy-to-use network attached www.MyStora.com, users and ReadyNAS line, but Stora is most individual system content is
storage (NAS) device for home their designated friends and definitely a platform for everyone. backed up regularly.
media. Stora enables consumers relatives can remotely access their Stora gives users the features they "Today's consumers face a
to easily centralize photos, music, media files from any Internet- need today with a consumer- c o n u n d r u m w h e n t r y i n g t o
movies and files and use them on connected device, such as laptops, friendly user interface and price manage newly acquired or created
nearly any network device. With a PCs and smartphones. p o i n t , m a k i n g t h e i r m e d i a digital content among various
smooth user interface designed for "We strongly feel that Stora available to them and their computing devices inside and
non-technical users, Stora lets exemplifies the next-generation of designated friends and families outside the home," said David
consumers easily share their consumer storage devices," said anytime, anywhere — even on Reinsel, group vice president of
photos and videos with friends D r e w M e y e r , d i r e c t o r o f mobile smartphones. It truly sets a IDC's storage and semiconductor
without the time-consuming m a r k e t i n g f o r N E T G E A R ' s new bar for the consumer network
process of uploading them to Network Storage Business Unit. storage market." NETGEAR page 27
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First USB 3.0 product gets certified, floodgates
get closer to breaking
By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 9:00:00 AM
You heard it here first, folks:
SuperSpeed USB is a reality.
After waiting around for what
feels like ages, USB 3.0 can now
say it has its first certified product
in NEC's xHCI host controller.
We know this may not be the
most exciting first product to get
the all-important seal of approval,
but you've got to start somewhere.
And hey, for those who know a
thing or two about building a
product to spec, having a
legitimate host controller could
sure come in handy. We spoke to
Jeff Ravencraft, president and
chairman of the USB-IF(the group
that oversees certification and the
like), and he stated that
(officially) the group is still
anticipating end products to hit
shelves in early 2010. That said,
this here host controller is
available now in the open market,
and he did confess that a number
of manufacturers would likely try
to get USB 3.0-equipped wares
onto store shelves before that
magical day in December.
He also noted that a smattering
of companies would be
showcasing USB 3.0 gear at
upcoming trade shows, with a
Buffalo external hard drive, an
ExpressCard-to-USB 3.0 adapter
and even a full-on laptop with a
functioning USB 3.0 port making
a stop at IDF later this week.
Aside from the aforesaid
ExpressCard adapter -- which will
let existing lappies enjoy the
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NETGEAR
continued from page 26
outside the home," said David
Reinsel, group vice president of
IDC's storage and semiconductor
research groups. "Historically,
personal storage devices have
proven competent at providing
reliable storage capacity and data
protection within the home, but
not always accessible from
outside the home or across
multiple devices. With this new
product, NETGEAR looks to
solve these common problems for
consumers."
NETGEAR Stora (MS2110)
comes with a 1 TB disk and one
extra drive bay that can be used to
insert an optional disk for
mirroring. The product is
immediately available through
selected North American retail
and e-commerce stores. Stora will
be available from leading
European and Asia Pacific retail
locations in approximately two
weeks. Stora is backed by a three-
year warranty and 24/7 technical
support and the Stora (MS2110)
model has an MSRP in the U.S. of
spoils of SuperSpeed USB -- he other words, a USB 2.0 cable USB chipset could help keep $ 2 2 9 . A n o p t i o n a l y e a r l y
also noted that a PCI card would cannot carry data at USB 3.0 costs down and MSRPs lower. So premium service, to support
be available for desktop users speeds, end of story. To enjoy yeah, USB 3.0 is officially here, additional remote access and third
looking to add a few sockets to USB 3.0, you'll need a USB 3.0 but the public can't play with any -party service integration such as
their rig. We were also informed receptor port, a USB 3.0 cable and USB 3.0 gear just yet. But if our Flickr and mobile phones, is
that USB 3.0 receptor ports will a USB 3.0 product; if you swap hunches are correct, we'd bet on at available for $19.99 after an
play nice with USB 2.0 cables and any of those pieces with USB 2.0, least one or two big players initial 30-day trial period.
gadgets, albeit at USB 2.0 speed; everything slows to USB 2.0 pushing out SuperSpeed-packin'
additionally, USB 3.0 wares will rates. Jeff also noted that the USB wares before the year ends.
be able to connect via older USB -IF would be coordinating the Filed under: Peripherals
2.0 sockets, though again at a release of end products and First USB 3.0 product gets
slower rate. We've got to say, the cables, and he even said that older certified, floodgates get closer to
dual-backwards compatibility is USB protocols may actually never breaking originally appeared on
pretty sweet. completely fade from the market. Engadget on Mon, 21 Sep 2009
We also asked him about After all, wireless keyboards 09:00:00 EST. Please see our
cabling and the general market would never need USB 3.0 speeds terms for use of feeds. Permalink|
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note that USB 3.0 cables will be integrated, and particularly in
physically different inside. In cheaper products, using an older
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Alec Baldwin
Netgear delves into consumer NAS market with Celebrates Emmy Win
Backstage with ET
$229 1TB Stora (ETonline - Breaking News)
By Darren Murph (Engadget) -party service integration such as Submitted at 9/21/2009 3:29:00 AM

Submitted at 9/21/2009 8:30:00 AM Flickr and mobile phones is

Clearly autumn is a time for
change, and with Seagate diving
cautiously into the consumer NAS
market just last week, it follows
logic to think that rival Netgear
would do likewise. The company
has had a few years of experience
with professional and business-
minded NAS units, but the now-
available Stora is the first dumbed
-down version meant to cater to
the masses (and the strapped-for-
cash). Essentially, it's targeting
users who want to make their
media catalog available over the
internet, and there's even a
MyStora.com location that lets
users easily access files remotely
when an FTP client just feels far
too intimidating.
It's compatible with Mac, Linux
available for $19.99 after an
initial 30-day trial period," but
frankly, that doesn't sound
appealing at all.
Gallery: Netgear delves into
consumer NAS market with $229
1TB Stora
Continue reading Netgear
delves into consumer NAS market
with $229 1TB Stora
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Networking
Netgear delves into consumer
and Windows platforms, it can setup over having twin 500GB NAS market with $229 1TB Stora
double as an iTunes or DLNA HDDs; after all, any shopper originally appeared on Engadget
server and it ships in a two-bay worth their salt can snap up an on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:30:00
configuration that is automatically extra 1TB unit for a lot less than EST. Please see our terms for use
setup to mirror data. Oddly Netgear would sell it to 'em.Oh, of feeds. Permalink| Email this|
enough, the $229 MS2110 model and we're told that an "optional Comments
includes only a single 1TB drive, yearly premium service to support
though we definitely prefer this additional remote access and third
ET is backstage at the "61st
Primetime Emmy Awards" with
Alec Baldwin, who won the
Emmy for Outstanding Actor in a
Comedy series.
This is the second year Baldwin
has won for his role in "30 Rock."
He told Mary Hart, "I totally
didn't think I was going to win."
He continued, "I just thought we
won everything last year and I
thought this was the year they
would move on and other people
would have their day."
Baldwin said working on "30
Rock" is "the best job I've ever
had." The cast gets along so well,
he said, "If we could stop hugging
each other, we could probably get
the day done sooner."

Netgear jumps into the consumer-friendly NAS arena with

‘Stora’
By Doug Aamoth home network thanks to UPnP and graphical user interface on
(CrunchGear) compatibility and a web interface www.MyStora.com, users and
Submitted at 9/21/2009 7:00:00 AM (MyStora.com) lets you share their designated friends and
files with friends and family as relatives can remotely access their
Netgear’s got a new home well as retrieve files yourself media files from any Internet-
network hard drive system called remotely. connected device, such as laptops,
Stora. It’s a $229 NAS system There’s also Facebook, Flickr, PCs and smartphones.
with a 1TB SATA hard drive built iTunes and mobile features, More info is available at
in and a second open SATA slot, although mobile and Flickr access Netgear’s website and the Stora is
allowing you to easily add a costs $20 per year. According to apparently available for purchase
second drive in the future (that the press release: smooth user interface designed for without the time-consuming now, although the “Buy Now”
second drive can be set up to Stora enables consumers to non-technical users, Stora lets process of uploading them to link on the website is currently
mirror the first). easily centralize photos, music, consumers easily share their Internet sites or transferring them going to a broken page.
Files can be shared and accessed movies and files and use them on photos and videos with friends over email. Through an intuitive MS2110- Stora[Netgear.com]
by various devices across your nearly any network device. With a
Internet News Record
Verizon VX8575 Chocolate
Touch confirmed to be uglier
than that other Chocolate Touch
By Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 9:48:00 AM
If you've been loving the
pictures and videos we've been
bringing you of the lusciously
slim BL40 Chocolate Touch, but
holding your breath since a
certain blurry photo a few weeks
ago showed a rather different
Chocolate Touch, we have some
bad news. According to Phone
Arena News, a Verizon "focus
groups" (with a questionable
sense of aesthetics) decided that
the BL40 was crap, and so the
somewhat unfortunate looking
and decidedly asymmetrical
VX8575 has been blessed for
domestic release as "Chocolate
Touch." It looks to be standard
fare featurephone stuff, with a
3.2MP camera, WVGA TFT
display, and a browser that will
support some subset of HTML.
No word on if or when the BL40
will also be making an appearance
at Verizon stores, but if we'd been
pushed to the curb for something
this busted we certainly wouldn't
come back -- at least not without a
very big bouquet accompanied by
Kristin Chenoweth Seeks Medical Attention at Emmys
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/20/2009 9:40:00 PM
Kristin Chenoweth is now doing
fine after suffering a migraine and
a sincere apology.
Filed under: Cellphones
Verizon VX8575 Chocolate
Touch confirmed to be uglier than
that other Chocolate Touch
originally appeared on Engadget
on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:48:00
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seeking medical attention at
tonight's Emmys, her publicist
tells the Associated Press.
After winning an Emmy for
Outstanding Supporting Actress
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DNS for
RSS feeds
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 9/20/2009 10:12:44 AM
Here is a Unix shell command
that gets the address of my RSS
feed: dig +short
davewiner.supercloud.org TXT
It makes a DNS call to get the
TXT record associated with
davewiner.supercloud.org. That's
different from an A record or a
CNAME record. TXT records are
used for things like this. That's
why when you go there in your
Pentax's waterproof Optio browser it doesn't go anywhere.
I have an app up for you all to
try out, so you can have a
W80 reviewed: tough as nails, supercloud.org domain for your
RSS feed (it works equally well
'so-so' image quality for Atom, or anything that can be
parsed as XML).
By Darren Murph (Engadget) else was at least somewhat http://dns.rsscloud.org/
Submitted at 9/21/2009 10:12:00 AM disappointing. The anti-shake Enter your Twitter username
system was found to simply slow and password and the URL of
We've always heard that life was the camera down, and the image your feed. It verifies that it is the
f u l l o f c o m p r o m i s e s , a n d q u a l i t y w a s h a m s t r u n g b y correct password. (And it doesn't
evidently Pentax made a few excessive noise at all ISO levels -- store it or use it for any other
when it decided to build its even 100. Feel free to peek the purpose.) And then if everything
toughest, most rugged point-and- full review down in the read link, goes well, your username will
shoot camera of all time. On but make sure to keep your map to a supercloud.org domain
paper, the Optio W80 looked expectations in check.
and point to your feed.
mighty promising, but in practice, Filed under: Digital Cameras This is of course not rocket
the all-important image quality Pentax's waterproof Optio W80 science.
was found to fall short. Over at reviewed: tough as nails, 'so-so' But it does seem to work.
PhotographyBLOG, critics found image quality originally appeared PS: Why this is interesting,
that the camera could withstand on Engadget on Mon, 21 Sep possibly, is that it may give us a
"virtually anything" within 2009 10:12:00 EST. Please see way to shorten URLs and make
reason, and while the 5x optical our terms for use of feeds. Read| them more flexible if we want to
zoom and HD movie mode were Permalink| Email this| Comments build a loosely-coupled Twitter-
both appreciated, most everything like network with feeds
distributed around the net. DNS is
the little bit of centralization that
in a comedy series for her tells the AP that the actress is now the Internet, itself a loosely-
performance in "Pushing Daisies" feeling better after resting and coupled network, is built on.
and speaking with the press, the may take part in post-Emmy
actress was attended to by festivities.
paramedics at the venue. Her rep
30 Tech/ Internet News Record

10 Demo grads: Where are they now?

By Daniel Terdiman Dubinsky, Six Apart founders Today, Salesforce.com has more recession was kicking in.
(Webware.com) Mena and Ben Trott, than 63,000 corporate customers, While Pleo got positive reviews
Submitted at 9/21/2009 4:00:00 AM Salesforce.com founder Marc for skipping through commercials. and in its most recent quarter, it and had a wide range of fans, it
Benioff, WebEx CEO Subrah Palm earned $21 million on record simply couldn't gain a foothold in
Over the last 13 years, Chris Iyar, and others. Although Palm as a company revenues of $316 million. the market. Ultimately, Ugobe
Shipley has been the primary Given that list and the fact that has had its share of ups and Six Apart filed for bankruptcy protection
gatekeeper of the twice-a-year Marshall is waiting in the wings downs, it has to be considered one After debuting at Demo in 2004, earlier this year, and today, Pleo is
Demo conferences, evaluating to usher in the next generation of of the most important players in Six Apart became a leading sold, albeit with little marketing,
more than 20,000 applications Demo--to begin next spring--now t h e h i s t o r y o f h a n d h e l d provider blogging tools. Its Vox, by a company called Innvo Labs.
from companies wishing to seems to be a good time to follow computing. Today, it is trying to Movable Type, and TypePad Filmloop
present in front of a roomful of in the footsteps of my colleague m a k e o n e o f i t s b i g g e s t services are used by many of the Launched at DemoFall in 2005,
reporters, venture capitalists, and Josh Lowensohn, who a week ago comebacks ever with its Pre most popular bloggers in the FilmLoop was intended to be an
analysts. took a " Where are they now" smartphone, one of the few w o r l d , i n c l u d i n g online service that presented a
Now, with DemoFall 2009 look at 10 alumni--five good and devices that has the potential to H u f f i n g t o n P o s t . c o m , B o i n g tray of moving images that slide
beginning Tuesday morning, f i v e n o t s o g o o d - - o f t h e take a bite out of the iPhone's Boing, and Talking Points Memo. from right to left across a user's
Shipley is marking the last of 24 TechCrunch50 shows, examining market share. Founded in 2001 by Ben and screen, showing each picture and
Demos she has overseen as she some of the stars and flops of With its original Palm Pilot, Mena Trott, the company got its then advancing to the next.
prepares the formal hand-off of Demo's past. Palm essentially created the first significant round of funding, The goal was to create a
the show to VentureBeat founder The good market for personal digital a $10 million B round from community in which users could
Matt Marshall. TiVo a s s i s t a n t s . A n d w h i l e t h e August Capital, and soon after, invite anyone they wanted to join,
VentureBeat founder Matt One of Demo's older success company lost some of its edge purchased Danga Interactive, the and even add photos, to, their
Marshall, who is taking over the stories, it's still hard to believe when Microsoft decided to get makers of LiveJournal. loop. There was no limit to the
organizational leadership of that TiVo, the first successful into the business with its Pocket Blinkx number of people that could be
Demo after this week's service for digital-video PC technology, there is little Launched at Demo 2007, Blinkx added to a loop, meaning that an
show.(Credit: VentureBeat) recording, is already 12 years old doubt that the PDA market, and has become the world's-largest entire community could
For each Demo, Shipley and her (it was founded in 1997, though t h e s u b s e q u e n t s m a r t p h o n e video search engine. It has more participate.
team have selected a few dozen service didn't debut until 1999). market, owe a great deal of debt than 500 media partnerships and The company also hoped to
companies, giving each a chance From its humble beginnings on to Palm. The original Palm OS currently indexes more than 35 become a photo newswire of
to make a name for themselves the Demo stage, the company has was used by millions of people million hours of video content. sorts, and it had relationships with
during a 6-minute presentation in gone on to become the standard- around the world. The Bad hundreds of professional
a tiny show floor booth by bearer in the world of DVRs, even Founders Jeff Hawkins and Ugobe Ugobe, which presented photographers.
unveiling something never seen as others have tried to ride its Donna Dubinsky, who were at Demo in 2006, looked poised to But things didn't go as planned
before--or perhaps a great new coattails. recently awarded Demo Lifetime become a leader in personal for the company. By early 2007, it
take on an existing product or Today, TiVo has just more than Achievement honors, left Palm to robotics. Furby inventor Caleb had burned through millions of
service. All told, over the 24 3 million subscribers and is form Handspring, which produced Chung was one of its founders. dollars of venture capital and had
s h o w s , s h e h a s g i v e n t h e boosting its presence among cable its own line of PDAs using Palm And ts Pleo animatronic dinosaur, laid off most of its staff. In large
opportunity to more than 1,500 users. During the last quarter, OS. Eventually, Handspring was both friendly and programmable, part, that was because there were
firms. cable provider RCN became the sold back to Palm, giving the was the kind of toy that seemed other companies providing similar
S o m e o f t h e m a r e n o w first to ever use both TiVo's latter a chance to regain its certain to provide enthusiasts and services, and FilmLoop's service
household names, and some have hardware and software offerings. dominance with the Treo. children alike with hours of robot simply never picked up a critical
long since faded into little more The company offers three main Salesforce.com fun. mass of users.
than memories. DVR models, two of which have Marc Benioff brought his Pleo, from Ugobe. It looked Peerflix
As a parting gift to the many high-definition capabilities. fledgling c o m p a n y , likely to be a big hit but fell Also launched at DemoFall in
Demo alumni, Shipley recently Over time, TiVo has become Salesforce.com, to the Demo victim to the recession.(Credit: 2005, PeerFlix aimed to be
announced the show's Lifetime s y n o n y m o u s w i t h D V R stage in 2000. Unknown at the Daniel Terdiman/CNET) something of an open-source
Achievement Awards, honors that technology and, to some extent, time, the company has since But the company probably came Netflix.
w e n t t o s o m e o f i t s m o s t has been one of the major thorns become a household name in along at the wrong time. Ugobe The idea was that users would
successful presenters. Among the i n t h e s i d e o f c o m m e r c i a l c u s t o m e r r e l a t i o n s h i p found itself in the position of send each other their own DVDs,
winners were Palm co-founders advertisers, who have had to management, or CRM, services. trying to sell a product that cost
J e f f H a w k i n s a n d D o n n a battle against viewers' preference too much, just as the global DEMO page 31
Internet News Record Tech Tips/ Entertainment 31
DEMO
continued from page 30
Video: Emmy-
and would search for and figure with online menus so that users Article One Partners Symform Winning Stars Share
out where to send their DVDs
through PeerFlix's servers. The
had a wide range of choices right
from the get-go.
Burt
CallSpark
Third Iris
TotalTrainer
their Joy Backstage!
company hoped to take advantage But good idea or not, a year Cazoodle Traackr (ETonline - Breaking News)
of the collective library of movies later, and WebDiet is still in Cortera TravelTrac Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:05:00 AM
of its users, and it thought that private beta, not a good sign this Digitrad Communications TuneWiki
members would trust each other late in the game. It's certainly DotSyntax Tungle Corp Emmy-winning stars Tina Fey,
enough to send off their own possible that it will still launch Emo Labs Twirl TV Toni Collette and Kristin
personal property to strangers. publicly and make an impact on Enthusem.com VicMan Software Chenoweth expressed their
From the get-go, the idea people's eating habits, but at this ePulze Waze happiness with Mary Hart
seemed problematic, in part point, it seems like the odds are Faculte Webroot backstage on TV's biggest night!
because it required a critical mass against it. Freeddom Tecnologia e Weels Corp Tina and her "30 Rock" crew
of users in order to maintain an Ham-It Servicos WhoDoYouKnowAt took home the statue for
attractive collection of films. By Announced at Demo 09 last Fuze Box YiqYaq Outstanding Series, Comedy. "I
early 2008, PeerFlix died. spring, Ham-It was touted as a Glam Media Zorap feel like there were a lot of really
According to my colleague Rafe "mobile-centric single-stop shop Gogrok Technology Zuora interesting upsets of this evening,"
Needleman, who liked the service to globally connect and match Hand Eye Technologies In addition, these 14 companies Tina says. "I thought we were
at first, "instead of getting more consumers with local providers of Hashwork are part of Demo's AlphaPitch dead in the water."
reliable as its user base grew, the day-to-day consumer services Hevva program, in which presenters get Kristin Chenoweth was still in
service got less and less reliable, with capability to collaborate and Hewlett-Packard 90 seconds to make their case: tears from her Outstanding
most likely as users stopped schedule." Indigo Cardagin Networks Supporting Actress in a comedy
participating in it." At the time, I wasn't sure what Intelius Diditz win, saying she had just gotten off
WebDiet that meant, and I'm still not. And Kryon Systems Dubzer the phone with her mother. "She's
It sounded like a good idea it looks like potential customers LeapFile Enroute Systems crying too," Kristin said. "She's so
when it was announced at never understood either, as the Liaise Gelato Dating proud. She's always taught me to
DemoFall in 2008: WebDiet, a company appears to have all but Lunchster Infochimps be such a gracious loser. She said,
service designed to help people disappeared. Micello Keen Systems 'no matter what happens, you've
find healthy restaurant food, The DemoFall 2009 roster MicroAssist Melior Technologies already won.'"
regardless of where they are. Starting Tuesday, these MoLo Rewards Nubli
The idea was that people would companies will be taking their 6- MyOwnRealEstate.com Pinyadda
enter--either via a Web interface minute turns on stage at this year's MyVocal Holdings Ringful
or through an iPhone app--dietary DemoFall. Stay tuned for full NativeTung Sarithi LocalMart
criteria and then see healthy food coverage of the show. Piryx ShareGrove
options arrived at by combining 80legs Point of Wealth Systems TrafficTalk
those criteria with location-based Anaplan Rseven Mobile Originally posted at Geek
data. WebDiet even planned on Answers RumbaFish Technologies Gestalt
partnering with restaurant chains Armorize Technologies Scientific Media

Properly Prune a Tree [Outdoors]

By Jason Fitzpatrick pruning them. Healthy trees add value to a yard the tree will heal and seal over the
(Lifehacker) Photo by ruralgold. and replacing old growth trees is wound. Check out the guide at the
Submitted at 9/20/2009 3:00:00 PM Why is trimming a tree properly difficult both from a cost and time link below for some step by step
so important? The most standpoint. advice. Introduction to Tree
Pruning a tree may not be the i m m e d i a t e r e a s o n i s t h a t The guide at the aptly named Pruning[TreeHelp]
most glamorous DIY project, but improperly trimming a tree can Tree-Pruning.com covers the
doing it properly is critical to the injure you. The long term reason basics, including how to make a
health of the trees in your yard. is the health of the tree: if you do can open up the tree to diseases cut to protect the bark of the tree
Protect your trees by properly a poor job trimming a tree, you and damage from the elements. and how to trim branches so that
32 Tech/ Tech Blog Internet News Record

ScreenSharingMenulet fills a gap in H.G. Wells: The Google

Snow Leopard's Screen Sharing.app Logo Mystery Is Finally
By TJ Luoma (The Unofficial to type them in manually, which menu extras. Simply click on its
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/20/2009 9:30:00 PM
isn't such a big deal when you are
trying to connect to a machine on
icon (shown above) and choose
which computer you wish to
Solved
a local network. If you are trying connect to via a dropdown list. In By Ben Parr (Mashable!)
Filed under: Cool tools Every to connect over the Internet, my testing it worked very well Submitted at 9/20/2009 10:25:15 PM
"point-oh" version of Mac OS X however, you need to use the full over a LAN although it did not
usually brings some small bit of h o s t n a m e , w h i c h m a y l o o k seem to pre-populate with the If you’ve been using Google this
pain, as I find some little utility no s o m e t h i n g l i k e t h i s : machines over the Internet. Given month, you’ve probably noticed a
longer works. Snow Leopard has macbook.yourname.members.mac the flakiness of Back To My Mac series of strange Google Logos.
been no exception. I had been .com. Plus, it just seems like one over ther Internet, I can hardly First, Google had their
using the version of Screen of those things that the computer fault this program for that unexplained phenomenon logo,
Sharing from 10.5.4 because it ought to do for me. [Side note, if shortcoming. complete with aliens and cryptic
had some "hidden" features which you are looking for a handy way ScreenSharingMenulet is free code. The mystery deepened
I liked. Unfortunately those to see all the Bonjour services on (donations accepted) from Stefan when Google had its crop circle to a search for “crop circles”
"hidden" features were also your local network, check out Klieme who has several other logo just a week ago. What did didn’t provide any more clues, we
"unsupported" features. When Tildesoft's free Bonjour Browser handy-looking utilities at his these logos mean? Was Google also tweeted the lat/long
10.5.5 came out, they were gone, utility.] website. If you use Screen trying to tell us something? coordinates of Horsell Commons,
but I continued to use the version While looking through a bunch Sharing a lot, it's definitely a Now the mystery is solved. the location of the first alien
of Screen Sharing from 10.5.4 of old files in my ~/Downloads/ handy tool to have around. Google revealed today that all of landing in H.G. Wells 1898
which worked until 10.5.8. Sadly folder, I found a version of TUAW ScreenSharingMenulet their cryptic logos were in honor classic, The War of the Worlds.
for me, it does not work at all in ScreenSharingMenulet. I checked fills a gap in Snow Leopard's of the great H.G. Wells, the Some of you figured out what we
10.6. its webpage and saw what I was Screen Sharing.app originally famous science fiction author. were doing, but we weren’t ready
The biggest drawback of Screen l o o k i n g f o r : appeared on The Unofficial Apple Today would have been his 143rd to reveal it all just yet.”
Sharing was the removal of the "ScreenSharingMenulet 1.7.1 and Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 20 Sep birthday. We actually have known for a
Bonjour Browser, which showed higher is compatible to Mac OS 2009 21:30:00 EST. Please see Each of the logos was actually a while that Google’s logo mystery
a list of computers available for 1 0 . 6 S n o w L e o p a r d . " our terms for use of feeds. clue to the answer of the mystery. was in honor of the English
Screen Sharing (both locally and ScreenSharingMenulet sits in the Read| Permalink| Email this| Here’s Google’s revelation of the writer. As Google notes in its blog
via Back to My Mac). Now I had menu bar along with your other Comments clues: post, several people cracked the
“You might have noticed an mystery after the second logo.
YWFFTMMR unexplained set of doodles on the
Google homepage and a couple
We’re big fans of Mr. Wells’s
work (I personally read The Time
(Scripting News) to make them rich, for which, in one does. It's weird that the tweets from our official Twitter Machine repeatedly), and have no
Submitted at 9/21/2009 12:00:00 AM turn -- I get nothing. $0. Bupkis. p e o p l e b e h i n d T w i t t e r a r e stream, @google, over the last qualms with Google’s unique
Only in the tech industry do supposedly capitalists yet seem to two weeks. On September 5th, we homage to the science fiction
When you get something going people have the audacity to look not understand that very simple p o s t e d a d o o d l e w i t h t h e pioneer. Perhaps sometime in the
all of a sudden the parasites you in the eye and say You Work idea. People don't work for free. abduction of our second ‘o’ and a future H.G. Wells will suddenly
opportunists swoop in and want to For Free To Make Me Rich. They don't pour out their passion coded tweet from its alien captors: appear in his gold-powered time
take control. Funny how they YWFFTMMR. in the cause of making you 1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 machine to greet us all.
leave you alone when you're not The stupid thing about it is that's wealthy. They might be motivated 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19, which We can only hope. Reviews:
so hot. at least part of the reason I'm to do it if they saw some upside. translates into “All your O are Google, Twitter
I suppose I should see it as a trying to get out of Twitter. I don't I'll let you know when someone belong to us” (a nod to the Tags: Google, google logo,
good sign, but they all resort to like their economic proposition approaches this space with respect Japanese video game, Zero H.G. Wells
the same kind of character attacks but I do like microblogging. I and an offer that isn't usurous. Wing).”
when I decline their offers. Some figure if I'm not going to make …
nastier than others. The offers any money off my work, then I'll “While the link from the doodle
amount to me working my ass off work in an environment where no
Internet News Record Tech/ TV 33

Our Microblogging Lives: Work, GAYDAR: Your Facebook

Home, Lunch, Sleep?
By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 1:39:21 AM
Are our everyday lives really so
mundane? Does it all boil down to
working, getting home, satisfying
the most basic needs such as
eating and sleeping, and then
repeating the cycle the next day?
Well, if we look at what we post
on microblogging networks, it
looks that way.
According to a study conducted
by the researchers from Helsinki
Institute for Information
Technology, Google and Elisa the
top 5 most frequent
microblogging posts are
“working,” “home,” “work,”
“lunch,” and “sleeping.”
Interestingly enough, the study
was conducted on a dataset of
400,000 messages in Jaiku, a now
largely forgotten Twitter
competitor, acquired by Google in
October 2007. While Jaiku is very
similar to Twitter, it’s nowhere
near as popular, and I’d prefer to
see the above results confirmed
by a similar study on Twitter and
Facebook.
Friends Can Reveal Your
Still, the Finnish study does
confirm the theory that a small
Sexual Orientation
portion of microbloggers receive By Stan Schroeder
far more attention and exert far (Mashable!)
more influence than the majority. Submitted at 9/21/2009 4:27:49 AM
According to the study, “a small
supercore of the Jaiku population You can tell a lot about a person
receives over 50% of all by looking at their friends. This is
comments in the system, while a especially true when it comes to
large part of newcomers found it social networks such as Facebook,
An older study, compiled by the h a r d t o b u i l d a n d k e e p a n where – as two MIT students have
l e x i c o g r a p h e r s o f O x f o r d audience and dropped out quite shown – your friends’ sexual
University Press, was based on a soon after registering.” This is in orientation can be used to correctly guessed the sexual
sampling of 1.5 million tweets, accordance with an earlier Twitter determine yours, even if you orientation of 10 men who were
and it paints a slightly different study which had showed that 60% haven’t explicitly disclosed it. known to be homosexual, but did
picture. It shows the 500 most of Twitter users quit within the For their unpublished study, not explicitly reveal it on
frequent words on Twitter, and first month. But it also ties in to titled Gaydar, MIT students Facebook, which is an awfully
while “work”, “sleep”, “home” what is said above: if you have a Carter Jernigan and Behram small sample. Furthermore, the
and “lunch” are definitely there, good reason to tweet, and if your Mistree scanned the Facebook Gaydar didn’t correctly identify
they aren’t nearly the most tweets are interesting, you’ll friends of over 1,500 fellow lesbians or bisexuals.
frequently used words, even if probably have no shortage of students. They’ve found that It makes sense, though: people
you look at nouns and verbs only. followers. homosexual men have network and relate to people with
For example, “love” is more Image courtesy of iStockphoto, proportionally more gay friends whom they have something in
frequently used than the four imbarney22 Reviews: Facebook, than straight men. From there, it common. From there, with a little
words mentioned above. Google, Jaiku, Twitter, was easy to create a piece of data mining one can easily guess
So, there is still hope for us i S t o c k p h o t o software that can predict the all sorts of things about a person.
tweeple; yes, most of the posts on Tags: analysis, Jaiku, study, sexual orientation of Facebook Are you Christian? Gay? Do you
Twitter are mundane, but it’s the twitter users who haven’t disclosed it. suffer from diabetes? Your friends
interesting stuff that we’re coming Simply put, if you’re a man, and might be telling, even if you’re
back for, and there’s no shortage you have a large proportion of gay keeping it a secret. Reviews:
of that if you follow the right friends, you’re probably gay, and Facebook
people. you can’t hide it. Tags: facebook, friends, gaydar,
The results of the study, as sexual orientaion
always, need to be taken with a
grain of salt. The program

Do Fringe and The X-Files take place in the same fictional universe?
By Mike Moody (TV Squad) the week and an overarching sci-fi seemingly connected to one fictional universe?
Submitted at 9/21/2009 8:02:00 AM conspiracy/mystery plot that helps William Bell and his company, Continue reading Do Fringe and
build the show's rich mythology. Massive Dynamic. The X-Files take place in the
Fringe isn't exactly the most In The X-Files, the conspiracy Show creators Roberto Orci, same fictional universe?
original show on TV. Critics and thread had something to do with Alex Kurtzman and J.J. Abrams Filed under: OpEd, Reality-
audiences have been comparing it shady government officials have acknowledged the influence Free, Fringe
to The X-Files since it premiered working with aliens and black tar of The X-Files on their show, but Permalink| Email this| |
last season. Like The X-Files, - or something like that. In Fringe, of unexplainable events all do Fringe and The X-Files Comments
Fringe offers up creepy cases of it's called "The Pattern," a series actually take place in the same
34 Tech/ Entertainment Internet News Record

Social Media Policies from Backstage with

Emmy Winner
Obama Open To Helping 80+ Organizations Jon Cryer
By Pete Cashmore
Newspapers, To Avoid Reporting (Mashable!) (ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 1:33:00 AM

Becoming 'All Blogosphere' Submitted at 9/20/2009 2:07:46 PM

One of the key challenges for ET was backstage at the "61st

By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) blog world too. Blogs are just a modern organizations is to define Primetime Emmy Awards" with
Submitted at 9/21/2009 5:31:32 AM publishing medium. Yes, because a social media policy. What’s Jon Cryer, who won the Emmy
there's a lower barrier to entry, acceptable? What isn’t? And how for Outstanding Supporting Actor
Mathew Ingram points us to the you do end up with a much larger should you go about creating such in a Comedy series for his role in
news that President Obama has absolute number of bloggers, a document for your workplace? "Two and a Half Men."
indicated that he's at least open to many of whom are just giving We’ve tried to aid with this however, one worthwhile task is Cryer told Mary Hart, "This is
hearing bills that would help opinion. But the idea that there process at Mashable through to read the policies of other the first award I've won since
bailout the newspaper industry aren't blogging reporters is pure articles such as Should Your organizations. Chris Boudreaux, summer camp. I swear. In the
because he's afraid of reporting folly. In fact, I'd argue that the Company Have a Social Media author of the upcoming book summer camp production of
becoming "all blogosphere":"I am serious blogs on certain subjects Policy? and 10 Must-Haves for “Social Media Governance”, has 'Fiddler on the Roof,' I won Best
concerned that if the direction of to a lot more to "put stories in Your Social Media Policy. We’ve assembled 82 such policies on the Supporting Actor for my portrayal
the news is all blogosphere, all context" than your average also published guides like Social book’s website. From companies of Perchik."
opinions, with no serious fact- newspaper reporter, who writes Media for Business: The Dos & to charities to military The actor confessed, " I was so
checking, no serious attempts to up a quick take and moves on to Don’ts of Sharing. organizations, it’s a treasure trove stunned…I forgot to hug my wife.
put stories in context, that what the next big thing. Topic-specific What’s more, we’ve looked at for those struggling with social I hugged Charlie Sheen." He also
you will end up getting is people blogs are often much more what happens when these media guidelines. took this as an opportunity to
shouting at each other across the accurate, much more detailed, and guidelines go to far, like the We think it’s super-handy: we thank "Two and a Half Men"
void but not a lot of mutual much more willing to focus on controversy over the Associated hope you’ll agree. executive producer, Chuck Lorre,
understanding." That seems like context than newspaper reporting. Press social media policy, and a Image courtesy of iStockphoto, who he believes to have forgotten
an odd way to characterize things. So why rescue one bunch of similar situation at the NFL. Richphotographics, Palto, rtiom in his acceptance speech.
First, it seems odd to lump the reporters, just because they If you’re looking to define your Reviews: Mashable, iStockphoto
medium in with a certain type of happen to print on paper? own social media guidelines, Tags: social media
reporting. There are plenty of Permalink| Comments| Email
"real reporters" who do plenty of This Story
"serious fact-checking" within the

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iPhone User: I Used 662,258
Text Messages in One Month
[VIDEO]
By Pete Cashmore
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/20/2009 4:20:09 PM
An iPhone 3GS user is claiming
to have sent and received 662,258
text messages in 30 days,
receiving a 13,000 page bill from
AT&T.
Going by the name
“Lgvoyagerguy” on YouTube, the
iPhone aficionado posted a 5
minute clip in which he assembles
the evidence for his miraculous
texting spree. The feat, he claims,
is a record.
There’s plenty of room for
skepticism, however: assuming
the video isn’t entirely fake,
sending and receiving 22,075
messages per day is hardly
something you could do
manually.
Even if real, then, it’s likely this
was done by automated means,
like signing up to every SMS alert
service under the sun. And if
Heidi Klum & Kourtney Kardashian
Show off Baby Bumps in Elegant
Emmy Gowns
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:46:00 AM
Expectant mothers and reality
TV stars Kourtney Kardashian
and Heidi Klum didn't let their
pregnancies get in the way of
going glam on the Emmy red
carpet.
Both ladies glowed at the
awards show, Kardashian wearing
a floor-length, dark gown and
Tech/ Tech News/ Entertainment 35
Brainshark Launches Free Service:
Takes on Slideshare
By Frederic Lardinois
(ReadWriteWeb)
targeting business users -
something that's clearly in
Submitted at 9/21/2009 7:00:00 AM Brainshark's DNA - users can also
As Brainshark's CEO Joe easily create a photo slideshow
For the last 10 years, Brainshark Gustafson and David Klein, the with the service. While
has offered a very popular on- company's product director, Brainshark is marketing this
demand presentations service for pointed out when we talked to feature as an opportunity for real-
enterprises. While most web them last week, today's estate agents to showcase their
services today typically start out presentations at conferences or offerings, nobody is going to stop
by offering free services and then business meetings either include you from putting up a narrated
slowly move towards offering too much information per slide or slideshow of your latest family
automated, does that really count paid features, Brainshark is consist of nothing more than just a picnic, either.
a s a l e g i t i m a t e r e c o r d ? ( I t turning this model on its head.
few words and images per slide. Selling Presentations
wouldn’t be the first mammoth While the company already offers While it is great that a lot of MyBrainshark also gives
AT&T bill, however: Apple fan a p r o f i t a b l e p a i d p r o d u c t ,
speakers make their presentations professionals the ability to sell
iJustine famously received a 300 Brainshark just launched a free available after a public talk, most their presentations. While
page itemized bill shortly after version of its service today.
of these slides mean very little anybody can register for a free
purchasing an iPhone – we know MyBrainshark, as this new service without the narration of the account, Brainshark will give
AT&T isn’t shy about wasting is called, was built on top of
presenter. By giving presenters a professionals the opportunity to
paper.) The video was picked up Brainshark's enterprise product. In wide range of options to add go through a vetting process and
by TUAW last week and the t e r m s o f i t s f e a t u r e s ,
narration to their slides and to add then sell their presentations on the
GOGII blog today, where we MyBrainshark clearly takes on videos and other documents, site. One example currently
discovered it (via@drew).
Slideshare and similar services myBrainshark hopes to bring this available on the service is a
What do you think? Let us head-on, though the company is context back to these disembodied presentation about sexual
know in the comments.
mostly targeting business presentations. harassment prevention for
Reviews: YouTube customers for now. In comparison with Slideshare, managers, which is selling for
Tags: iphone
Sponsor myBrainshark is more flexible $15. These professionals
While Slideshare also allows its when it comes to how a (Brainshark calls them 'Learning
users to upload audio, Brainshark presentation can be organized. Providers') can set their own
makes this exceptionally easy, as
users can actually record their
Inside your presentation, you can
easily switch back and forth
prices for these presentations.
Verdict
talks right from their phones.
MyBrainshark supports
between documents (Brainshark Overall, the fact that Brainshark
supports Office 2003 and 2007) has been in this business for 10
PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and and videos, for example. A years clearly shows in the
PDF documents, as well as most Brainshark presentation doesn't product, which is very polished.
Klum in a sequin, black Marchesa popular video and image formats.
gown. even have to include a Even though it only offers a
These documents can be up to PowerPoint file - you can also use subset of the features available in
Klum told ET she has another 100MB in size. Once you have
m o n t h t o g o b e f o r e s h e i s uploaded a documents, you can the service to voice-annotate a Brainshark's enterprise product,
scheduled to deliver her baby girl. e i t h e r a d d a u d i o t r a c k s b y whitepaper, for example, or to myBrainshark still offers more
She says of naming her new babe, uploading additional MP3 files or narrate that exciting Excel features and flexibility than most
"[ Seal and I] do have a few you can call Brainshark and spreadsheet your worked on all other online presentation services.
names but we're going to wait record the presentation over the weekend long. Focus on Discuss
until she pops out and then we're phone. Professionals
going to decide." While the company is mostly
Focus on Narration
36 Tech News/ Entertainment Internet News Record

Robo.to: They're Watching the Social Web in Real Time - But

Will It Pay?
By Jolie O'Dell automatically forwarded to the hemorrhaging users. The apps are rather quiet launch and our phone
(ReadWriteWeb) usual lineup of social networks. small and lightweight enough for conversation with Flemings, we
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:00:00 AM What the newly launched TV mobile browsers. The designs are were told that the app's user base
mode allows for is topic-based compact. Even the product names had doubled and hundreds of
Particle, the Justin Timberlake- surfing of all Robo.to content. are tiny and - dare we say it? - video clips were being uploaded
funded microapp development "It allows you to watch intentionally cute. But can these each hour.
shop, is dedicated to creating hashtags," Flemings explained. single-function, "massively small" What Flemings could not share
"massively small" products that "As bits of content bubble up, you products generate the massively was specifics on exactly how
provide simple, creative solutions can follow that along with the large user base to generate many users the site has or how his
to real problems. video posts. Users go into TV product to solve it." revenue, and how do Flemings et team plans to monetize the app
When we first reviewed their mode through search or by So, what problems are the al. intend to capitalize on their suite.
Robo.to application, we weren't clicking on a topic. People tend to Particle apps designed to solve? microapp suite? On Finding Users "Robo.to is a new product," he
sure whether to be confused or lost about half an hour when Crusher addresses the problem and Making Money said. "It is a social serivce, the key
delighted - but we knew there was trying this out, because it's of how to have a cool party. Pop Back at Robo.to's launch, we focus is providing utulity and
more to the app than met the eye. fascinating to watch what people i s a t o o l f o r c o o l - h u n t i n g . wrote: Then there are the apps benefit and growing a community
Not long ago, we had a telephone are doing." Robo.to, which began as Smirk, that, while nifty, don't have the of users. Particle has products
chat with Particle CEO Rey For example, here's what it attempts to solve the issue of the power to become a continent or an with much nearer term revenue
F l e m i n g s ; h e r e v e a l e d t h a t might look like to watch the static user avatar. island because they can't propositions... Social products
Robo.to is to become the channel- hashtag #squee on Robo.to's TV And there's a new app in the consistently draw users back. unlock their revenue potential at
surfer of the real-time web. He mode: works: Uooo. The name, said They become digital jetsam, and scale. There are certainly very
also told us what Particle is Flemings did say that the clips Flemings, "is based on the sound adoption declines after initial strong ideas, but we're not
rolling out next. Read on for will remain soundless. "One of y o u m a k e w h e n y o u s e e rounds of publicity are over. publicly talking about those."
insights on the microapp universe the things we're trying to do is something you ought to be We're not damning Robo.to to Flemings' purposely vague
- including monetization - and a making it impossible to create bad capturing." Like Robo.to, Uooo this particular fate, but we want to response left us disconcerted.
few surprises, as well. content. Without parameters, will present short-form video for know: Why will we return to We've been promised
Sponsor people make all kinds of stuff... the social web. Unlike Robo.to, Robo.to and continue to upload "revolutionary" approaches to
On Watching the Statusphere What we are doing on the audio Uooo will encourage users to content? What will remind us? Is social media monetization in the
Robo.to is an app that allows f r o n t i s t o c r e a t e m o r e point their cameras at the world returning even necessary? Has the past, only to be confronted with
users to create soundless, 4- environmental sound - themeing, around them rather than simply Particle team succeeded in freemium models, white-labeled
second video clips. These can be music, designing an experience." recording themselves. It will creating an app so tiny it's apps, and endless streams of ads,
used as video avatars, sent as On Being Massively Small launch initially as a Robo.to virtually invisible? none of which strike us as
social-web calling cards, attached "Our mission," said Flemings, feature. And without consistent user remotely innovative. Whatever
t o a l l m a n n e r o f l i n k s o r "is to reengage with the persistent Particle is trying to perfect the traffic prompted by that sticky, these "strong ideas" happen to be,
geographical data, or simply snags of day-to-day Web use. We most concise expressions of the infectious property the best new and however many users Particle
updated with a line of text as one a p p r o a c h f a i r l y c o n t a i n e d , social web, a concept that's been apps have (hel-lo, Twitter!), how needs to acheive their revenue-
would update any other status- verticalized problems, apply a ragingly popular ever since will Particle have the leverage to generating critical mass, we hope
based message service. Of course, creative approach, and launch a Twitter made tiny sexy and generate revenue? the results leave both users and
the videos and text can be massively small, feature-ful bloated networks began In the weeks between Robo.to's Mr. Timberlake satisfied. Discuss
New Video: Stars Show Off Their Emmy Style!
(ETonline - Breaking News) Simon Baker's sophisticated tux, see what Hollywood's hottest
Submitted at 9/21/2009 12:30:00 AM the lovely ladies and handsome guys and gals wore for the big
gentlemen of TV turned it up a night!
ET has the latest... fashion notch on the Emmy red Plus, click here for all of your
From Blake Lively's va va va carpet and we have a look at their Emmy news.
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Internet News Record Tech News/ TV Sports 37

Sponsor Post: Case Study of Contexa at

ReadWriteWeb: Context Improves CTR
By RWW Sponsor As we began this exciting Each advertiser has different
(ReadWriteWeb) journey, the ReadWriteWeb team needs and knows its market
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:00:06 AM defined its objective as follows: intimately, so it is best positioned
• "To offer value to our readers to decide what works and how to
Editor's note: we offer our long- by providing advertising links in tune its selection.
term sponsors the opportunity to the context of what they are Melek: What's next? What is Curb Your Enthusiasm:
write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell their reading, links that would therefore ReadWriteWeb contextual link your vision? Funkhouser's Crazy
story. These posts are clearly more likely be of interest to them, advertising system for a while. Bernard: For this first phase, we
marked as written by sponsors, and H a s t h e s y s t e m m e t y o u r provided Contexa to our long-
Sister (season premiere)
but we also want them to be • To offer a higher level of expectations? term sponsors. In the next phase, By Jonathan Toomey (TV
useful and interesting to our engagement to our advertisers, Bernard: Yes, it has. We wanted we want to offer Contexa as a Squad)
readers. We hope you like the resulting in both more branding to see if it would generate a standalone offering, so that Submitted at 9/21/2009 1:02:00 AM
posts and we encourage you to impressions and more click- meaningful uplift in CTR, and it a d v e r t i s e r s c a n p u r c h a s e
support our sponsors by trying out throughs." has. keywords (or trigger phrases) ( S07E01)"I'd rather have the
their products. The preliminary aggregated Melek: What feedback have you directly on ReadWriteWeb. This thieves than the neighbors - the
Since the launch of the statistics of the six participating received from advertisers? And will be an entry-level self-service thieves don't impose." - Larry
c o n t e x t u a l l i n k a d v e r t i s i n g sponsors (excluding Hakia), what would you recommend to advertising option that many Larry David is back, and I feel
product on ReadWriteWeb, we at c o v e r i n g a 4 0 - d a y p e r i o d , participating advertisers going smaller startups have requested. uncomfortable. Awkward
Hakia have been anxious to see demonstrate that the Contexa forward? Melek: Anything else you moments, off-color comments,
the results and evaluate the system has met ReadWriteWeb's Bernard: Advertisers have to get would like to add? and instances of sheer disgust
s u c c e s s o f o u r c o n t e x t u a l objectives: the traffic–relevance balance Bernard: Context matters to were all there in tonight's season
advertising product, Contexa. The • The Contexa system increased right. You can drive a lot of clicks engagement. That is an obvious premiere of Curb Your
Contexa system matches the ad clicks by 14% (i.e. advertiser with a hot term - something we statement, but doing it right has Enthusiasm. If you sit back for a
semantic context of a blog post received, on average, 14% more are writing about a lot - but if the been hard, and the opportunities second and actually consider all
with a sponsor's criteria on the fly ad clicks). relevance is low, the advertiser for bloggers to offer ads that the different elements that made
to deliver relevant ads to the • The click-through rate (CTR) won't get good conversions. As engage readers well and offer up this episode, it's pretty
r e a d e r . P a r t i c i p a t i n g for Contexa was more than twice with any new type of advertising, them value have been limited. impressive. More often than not,
ReadWriteWeb sponsors have that of ReadWriteWeb's 125 x an art and science emerges over Contexa is a good step in this an episode of Curb is just as
provided the contextual engine 125 banner ads. time. People know how to buy important journey. intricately plotted out as an
with up to three "trigger phrases" We decided to turn the tables search terms on Google, but this We thank the ReadWriteWeb episode of Lost.
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Giants spoil Cowboys' home opener with late FG

By Associated Press • Lawrence Tynes kicked the • Eli Manning led the way, touchdown for the Giants, and for 127 yards with two scores
(ESPN.com) winning 37-yard field goal as the finishing 25 of 38 for 330 yards Steve Smith also caught 10 passes (one rushing) and three picks.
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:55:59 AM Giants, who benefited from four and two touchdowns. for 134 yards and a score. • Rapid Reaction
Dallas turnovers, defeated the • Mario Manningham caught 10 • Tony Romo posted a 29.6 -- ESPN Stats & Information
Fast Facts Cowboys in Dallas' home opener. passes for 150 yards and a passer rating, finishing 13 of 29
38 Tech News/ Sports Internet News Record

Making Flash Apps More Sharable: Hulu's Facebook App:

Adobe Launches Services for Posse Up for the Heroes
Distribution Premiere
By Frederic Lardinois ability to share iPhone versions of By Dana Oshiro
(ReadWriteWeb) their applications - though (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/20/2009 10:01:00 PM obviously those have to be native Submitted at 9/20/2009 6:25:10 PM
iPhone applications, as the iPhone
Adobe just announced the launch doesn't support Flash. Five years ago it was strange to
of Flash Platform Services for Developers will be able to track see TV (a form of entertainment
Distribution. These new services the success of their applications built for at-home consumption)
will allow developers to make through and Adobe AIR app that rally people to congregate outside
their applications more sharable will all them to measure of their homes. Special
on a variety of platforms, distribution and customer usage. programming like heavy weight
including a wide range of mobile In partnership with Gigya, Adobe boxing title matches, the Super
devices. Adobe will give will also give developers the Bowl and the Oscars could
developers the ability to enable ability to assure installs through encourage viewers to establish a
their users to embed applications paid promotions and to monetize shared viewing experience, but
on over 70 destination sites. In apps through cross-promotions. regular shows rarely commanded programs as the season
order to provide this service, make this easier for developers. Coming Soon: Easier Integration the same effort. Today, bar-hosted progresses.
Adobe has partnered with Gigya, Sharing Flash Apps on Mobile with Social Networks TV screening parties are as One of the most interesting
a company that already has a lot Devices Adobe also announced that it common as beer. In an effort to features of the Facebook app is
of experience in giving publishers On the mobile side, Adobe and w i l l l a u n c h a n o t h e r F l a s h build on the shared viewing the fact that show fans can attend
the ability to make their content Gigya will give users the ability to Platform Service later this year experience, popular HD television online screening events.
sharable through social widgets. share content on a wide variety of that will allow developers to site Hulu is expanding beyond its Individual shows are listed as
Sponsor phones, including Windows easily connect Flash applications walls. The company launched its Facebook events and users add
As the Adobe team behind this Mobile and Symbian phones. w r i t t e n o n t o p o f A d o b e ' s Watch Now Facebook App where themselves as guests in order to
product told us in an interview Users who want to install a platforms with a number of social audiences can watch season receive show screening reminders
last week, for a lot of companies, sharable application on their networks such as MySpace, premieres and comment in a and share links and info. Hulu's
making their applications sharable mobile phones will simply receive F a c e b o o k , a n d T w i t t e r . group setting. first premiere event is for the Fall
is still a major challenge. For a an SMS message with a link to Developers won't have to worry Sponsor premiere of Heroes on Tuesday
large number of these companies, the application. The service will about the idiosyncrasies of a Watch Now is very similar in September 22. A complete list of
posting an application in an app automatically detect the type of service's API, but will be able to design to the White House Live the premieres is available in the
store is also often the only mobile device and deliver the right write their applications on top of Facebook App. While the White Watch Now App.
distribution strategy. The Flash version to the user. Developers Adobe's social platform instead. House's app allows users to Earlier in the week,
P l a t f o r m S e r v i c e s f o r can also give their users the Discuss debate alongside a live stream of ReadWriteWeb covered Rupert
Distribution, however, aims to Obama's speeches, the Hulu app Murdoch's hints that Hulu is
offers users a more lighthearted experimenting with a subscription
Gould's FG boots Cutler, Bears past Steelers experience by building dialogue service. With the new Facebook
on the latest shows. From here, app, it will be interesting to see if
By Associated Press first win of the season. interceptions after throwing four
fans share their favorite clips the company can continue to build
(ESPN.com) • The Steelers came up short in picks in the Bears' season-opening
through Facebook messages and momentum beyond its free
Submitted at 9/20/2009 8:38:21 PM their first trip to Chicago since loss to the Packers. service. Discuss
1995. • Rapid Reaction profile updates. They can also
Fast Facts • Pittsburgh had won its previous -- ESPN Stats & Information return to their bookmarked
• Robbie Gould kicked a game- three meetings with the Bears.
winning field goal with 15 • Jay Cutler threw for 236 yards,
seconds left to give the Bears their two touchdowns and zero
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Report: 49ers Accuse Jets of Tampering
Facebook Data Mining: Truth in With Michael Crabtree
Association? By Michael David Smith
(FanHouse)
that -- if true -- would constitute a
serious violation of NFL rules.
Report: 49ers Accuse Jets of
By Dana Oshiro policy and technology perspective Submitted at 9/21/2009 8:35:00 AM
(ReadWriteWeb) that the point is to give you Tampering With Michael
Submitted at 9/20/2009 8:41:26 PM control over your information - by Michael David Smith Crabtree originally appeared on
because you don't have control Filed under: 49ers, Jets The San Fanhouse NFL Blog on Mon, 21
With a product as ubiquitous as over your information." Francisco 49ers have reportedly Sep 2009 08:35:00 EST . Please
Facebook, the public has raised a employed computational analysis With the service being used to complained to the league office see our terms for use of feeds.
n u m b e r o f p r i v a c y - r e l a t e d to identify user traits based on catch tax evaders, in addition to a that the New York Jets tampered Permalink| Email this| Linking
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settings, privacy policies and data Facebook friends. Through friend it'll be interesting to see how the Michael Crabtree, an accusation
m i n i n g . I n t h e p a s t , profiles, the program predicts the public reacts to this latest show of
R e a d W r i t e W e b c o v e r e d likelihood of your religious F a c e b o o k d a t a m i n i n g
Facebook's plans to sell user data affiliations, political leanings and capabilities. While it's unlikely
for market research purposes. even your sexual orientation. t h a t t e r r o r i s t s u s p e c t s a r e
However, today's article in the Essentially the idea is that friends friending each other on Facebook,
Boston Globe suggests that user are likely to share traits. So if there are a number of associations
information can be mined for you're in the closet, but you've got that need not be publicized to
m o r e t h a n j u s t a d v e r t i s i n g loads of vocal friends, a program c o r p o r a t e p a r t n e r s o r
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Close Open Loops to Relax Guilt Free [Productivity]

By Jason Fitzpatrick never be fully clear on when working more. I refuse to have the constantly working and often
(Lifehacker) you've reached it but also that guilt in my relaxation time. times doing so ineffectively
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:30:00 AM you'll never be able to stop. Scott My solution was simply to close because of exhaustion and
Young highlights the danger of all the ends of the tasks in running burnout.
At some point all of us have the working without an immediate this blog. Each week I set up a This week make it a point to
fallen into the trap of neglecting goal: specific to-do list which outlines search out as many open loops as
to set an end point for our work. Running this blog could easily the number of posts I plan to possible so that whatever your
In doing so we set ourselves up be an open-ended task if I let it. write, optimizations I want to free time looks like—getting off
for exhaustion and burnout. Avoid There is no requirement for me to carry out and work that needs to work at the end of the day, the
this by closing your open loops. write a certain amount of times be done on projects. When that to- entire weekend off, a break from
Photo by Dave-F. each week. There are no do list is finished, I stop. being on call—will be more
It's important to work with a g u i d e l i n e s f o r h o w m u c h It sounds elementary enough, relaxing and regenerative.
finite and attainable goal in mind optimization work I need to do. but in today's world where work Have your own methods, tips,
whether you're working a project There aren't any clear lines to say isn't simply something we do for and tricks for dealing with open
for your business or a project what is "enough". 8 hours, 5 days a week, at a fixed loops? Let's hear about them in
around your home. Working If I ran this blog as an open work to do, so until I drove location with tools and material the comments. Relax Without
towards a nebulous and distant loop, I'd never feel I needed to myself to exhaustion I would that can't come home with us, it's Feeling Lazy: Kill Open
goal ensures not only that you'll stop. There would always be more always feel guilty that I should be all too easy to fall into the trap of Loops[via Scott Young]
40 Tech Tips/ Internet News Record

Use Regular Invitations to

Keep a Messy Space Clean
[Supercharged Workspace]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) party?
Submitted at 9/21/2009 4:30:00 AM I have to clean out the
refrigerator to make space for the
Few motivators can be as hors d'oeuvres, I purge all the
powerful as the disdain and clutter in the house, and I make
concerned looks of friends and sure that everything I own has a
coworkers. The Unclutterer blog "home." I also call in a service a
Building The Ultimate Dorm Desk suggests flipping that shame into
a recurring motivator by inviting
folks over to your house or
few days in advance to help me
get all of the nooks and crannies
that usually get overlooked a good
[Featured Workspace] workspace.
Photo by Nai..
Rather than let her casual
cleaning. Then, after all of my
hard work, I get to celebrate my
orderly space with my friends.
By Jason Fitzpatrick Lifehacker reader ev1lcaust1c, set a closer look at his design and hit
(Lifehacker) out to build a desk that would his Flickr set to see even more nesting instincts take over and Not everybody can call in a
Submitted at 9/20/2009 4:00:00 PM work for his bedroom, in his photos of the desk in progress. occasionally embarass her with cleaning service to help out, but
future dorm room, and would hold If you have a workspace of your unexpected visitors, writer Erin most of us can use the motivation
When you're a DIYer with a all of his computer and gaming own to show off, throw the Rooney Doland makes it a point of friends' and managers'
desire to build an epic desk for equipment. pictures on your Flickr account to invite guests to her home for opinions, especially the picky
your dorm room, it helps to have He did some research by hitting and add it to the Lifehacker r e g u l a r w i n e a n d c h e e s e ones, to overcome our own worst
a c c e s s t o g o o d t o o l s a n d office and furniture stores, Workspace Show and Tell Pool. gatherings, and used to ask her let-it-ride instincts. Need
materials. One Lifehacker reader photographing desks and setups Include some details about your boss to drop by her office at her motivation? Send an
used great gear and forward- he liked, and then took the plans setup and why it works for you, desk job. What are the benefits of invitation[Unclutterer]
looking design to craft an ultimate to his father's shop. The end result and you just might see it featured regular party invites, beyond the
dorm desk. is certainly more polished than on the front page of Lifehacker.
In such a case you can't go any woodworking we've done Building The Ultimate Dorm
wrong having a dad who owns a around the Lifehacker office, Desk[Lifehacker Workspace
high-end wood working company that's for sure—none of us are Show and Tell Pool]
and has an 8,000 square foot shop sporting walnut speaker shelves!
f i l l e d w i t h t o o l s g a l o r e . Check out the photos below to get
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Make Compiz Run More
Smoothly on Linux
Desktops [Linux Tip]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 5:30:00 AM
If you're running the Compiz
window manager on your Linux
system—known as "Desktop
Effects" in Ubuntu—you might
notice it doesn't slide windows
around smoothly, and causes
occasional video tearing. The fix?
Sync up Compiz to your monitor's
refresh rate .
The Tombuntu blog points out a
few settings in Compiz's
advanced settings manager, one
that doesn't come pre-installed in
Ubuntu but can be easily plugged
into the Preferences menu. Once
you've got access to Compiz's
finer tunings, you'll want to look
up what the optimum vertical
refresh rate of your monitor is. If
Tech Tips/ Tech Reviews 41
Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9
billion
(CNET News.com) manufacturing, banking, and April, for instance, they teamed
Submitted at 9/21/2009 5:37:00 AM insurance. The company has built up to get in on the ground floor of
a large customer base in North electronic health records, a field
Dell announced Monday that it America, Europe, the Middle East that is expected to grow
will buy IT services provider and Africa, and Asia. substantially in coming years as
Perot Systems for $3.9 billion. "Today's announcement is the hospitals and physicians
The two companies expect to n e x t s t e p i n f o r m a l i z i n g a increasingly digitize patients'
provide a broad range of IT relationship that has flourished for medical records. The companies
services and packages, expanding some time," said Perot Chairman also talked about the ability to run
the global reach of Perot Systems Ross Perot Jr. "When my father some medical applications in a
and selling Dell computer systems f o u n d e d P e r o t S y s t e m s h e
to additional Perot customers. The envisioned a global information-
move could be a shot in the arm technology leader. The new,
hosted, "private cloud" offering to
help make costs more
manageable.
for Dell, giving it a way to larger Dell builds on that promise
diversify away beyond its bread- and its own successes by taking
One of the largest computer
makers in the world, Dell has
and-butter business of selling Perot Systems' expertise to more
hardware.
"This significantly expands
customers than ever."
Under the agreement, PC and
been hit hard by the global
recession as its business
customers hold off on upgrading
you find that, set Compiz to use D e l l ' s e n t e r p r i s e - s o l u t i o n s server maker Dell will acquire all their banks of servers and arrays
that refresh rate, and enable the capabilities and makes Perot outstanding common stock of of desktop and laptop PCs. In its
"Sync to Vblank" option. In Systems' strengths available to Perot Systems for $30 a share in most recent quarter, Dell's
simple terms, that sets Compiz to even more customers around the c a s h . S u b j e c t t o t h e u s u a l earnings were down 23 percent
draw on the screen only when the world," said Dell CEO Michael government approvals, the deal is year over year to $472 million, on
monitor is refreshing, give you Dell. "There will be efficiencies expected to close in Dell's revenue of $12.76 billion, also
less skipping when moving from combining the companies, November-January fiscal quarter. down just over 20 percent.
windows and reducing jagged but the acquisition makes such Once the deal is completed, ODell and Perot Systems say
cutting in videos. great sense because of the obvious Perot Systems will become Dell's that over the past four quarters
As noted at the link, this tip ways our businesses complement services unit, headed by Peter they have taken in a combined
won't help systems with lower- each other." Altabef, current Perot Systems $16 billion in enterprise hardware
end graphics cards that can barely Perot Systems, founded by one- CEO. Ross Perot Jr. is expected to and IT services revenue, with
handle desktop effects. Those time presidential candidate Ross be considered for a slot on Dell's about $8 billion from enhanced
with serious graphics cards, Perot, provides IT services and board of directors. services and support.
however, can up the refresh rate business solutions to customers in Dell and Perot Systems have
higher than their monitor's default h e a l t h c a r e , g o v e r n m e n t , worked together in the past. In
if they want an even smoother go
of it. Make Compiz Run
Smoothly and Without
Tearing[Tombuntu]
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Investigating Intel's Lynnfield mysteries

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:30:00 AM

I have a few questions to ask at

this week's Intel Developer
Forum....
Why is Intel using a more
expensive chip for the new Core
i5 and cheaper Core i7
processors? Why does this new
chip--code-named Lynnfield--
appear to have features Intel isn't
using? What's the connection
between Lynnfield and a future
Intel chip code-named Jasper
Forest?
These questions arose as I've
been getting ready for IDF by
reviewing recent press releases
and news stories about Intel's
current and forthcoming products,
and chatting with fellow analysts
about what we're looking forward
to seeing there.
The recent announcements of
the Core i5 and new Core i7
processors seemed pretty
straightforward. Consider Brooke
Crothers' piece on CNET: " Out
with the old: Intel makes Core 'i'
chips cheap." As Crothers
explains, the facts are simple: the
new Core i7 800-series slots in
under the existing 900-series and
replaces some older parts. The
Core i5 is a new line, clearly
positioned below the Core i7. QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) processor code-named Lynnfield, Nehalem apart from previous common in the microprocessor
Features, performance, and prices link. with labels.(Credit: Intel) Core-brand microprocessors. business. Sharing makes good
are all lower. That's as it should The big difference between the And here's an image of the Sharp-eyed readers may notice sense when two products are this
be. chips is the addition of 16 lanes of Bloomfield chip: that Bloomfield has two QPI similar. Bloomfield parts carry
But in looking at the coverage PCI Express on Lynnfield, but Die photo of the Core i7 blocks, though only one is used around the extra die area of the
on some enthusiast sites, a fact that's only about 80 pins plus the processor code-named for the Core i7 or Xeon 3500- second QPI interface, but it's a
jumped out at me. The Lynnfield control logic. The changes should Bloomfield, with labels.(Credit: series processors. This is because small part of the die; no big deal.
chip is 12.5 percent larger than have roughly canceled each other Intel) the Bloomfield die is the same But looking closely at these
the Bloomfield chip used in the out. Maybe one chip would be a It's easy to see how similar these design as the Gainestown die used chips--especially with the
higher-priced Core i7 900-series little bigger than the other, but not chips are. The four Nehalem cores for Xeon 5500-series processors. assistance of a very high-res
processors (296 square mm vs. by this much. are clearly visible above the large In a desktop system, a second QPI Bloomfield die photo--I noticed
263 square mm), in spite of the Here's Intel's labeled image of L3 cache. There's the same T- interface is not useful, so Intel just that all of the I/O circuitry present
fact that Lynnfield only has two the Lynnfield die: shaped area for the on-die doesn't use it.
memory interfaces and no Die photo of the Core i5/Core i7 memory controller that sets Sharing chip designs like this is
INVESTIGATING page 43
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continued from page 42
on Bloomfield appears to be
present on Lynnfield as well.
Die photo of the Core i7
processor code-named
Bloomfield, without
labels.(Credit: Intel)
The full three-channel DRAM
interface, the two QPI links, both
of the "Misc IO" blocks--it all
seemed to be there. That is, except
for the lower-left corner of the
Lynnfield die photo, which was
suspiciously blank--a flat blue
color indicating that nothing was
on that part of the chip at all. I
didn't believe that.
And then I remembered the die
photo Intel published on the
Pressroom page for IDF 2009.
This photo was of a future chip
code-named Jasper Forest, but it
looked very similar to the
Lynnfield chip. Here it is:
Die plot of the Intel processor
code-named Jasper Forest.(Credit:
Intel)
The lack of detail in some areas
suggests this could be a die plot
rather than a die photo; it's a
mirror image and the colors are
different, but those quibbles aside,
this chip seems to be pretty much
identical to Lynnfield.
Jasper Forest is meant to
support dual-processor
House season six -- An early look
By Jonathan Toomey (TV
Squad)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 10:02:00 AM
Dr. Gregory House has
problems. This is not news. We
know this. His colleagues know
this. He knows this. The issue at
the core of tonight's two-hour
season premiere of
House("Broken" airs at 8PM ET
on Fox), is waiting patiently for
configurations, so it has to have
QPI; that's how Intel connects
chips together these days.
Assuming Jasper Forest is
Lynnfield, it becomes possible to
compare the unlabeled Lynnfield
die plot to the unlabeled
Bloomfield die photo, and it's
pretty easy to see that yes, all that
I/O is on both chips, and Intel
"shopped" out the contents of the
QPI 0 block on the labeled
Lynnfield photo.
And there's one more bit of
supporting evidence. Although
Lynnfield officially doesn't have a
QPI interface, and it definitely
doesn't have any pins assigned for
one, the Core i5/Core i7-800 data
sheet documents the software
registers used to control a QPI
interface.
So much for all the detective
work. What are the practical
consequences?
Essentially, the basic Lynnfield
chip design, which is used in high
-volume PC desktop and server
processors and will probably be
the basis of future Nehalem-
microarchitecture mobile
processors as well, is carrying
around a lot of extra baggage.
This isn't like the
Bloomfield/Gainestown sharing.
our favorite curmudgeon to admit
what he knows.
Ever since last season's finale,
we've all wanted to know one
thing - is House really crazy or
has the Vicodin finally done
enough damage that he's
hallucinating dead people and
having imaginary sex with
Cuddy? The answer is finally presented the possibility of
revealed, and despite Fox's viral someone having done something
marketing campaign that
There, the extra die area was a
very small part of the overall chip
--too small to be worth removing.
With Lynnfield, a relatively large
chunk of die area (perhaps 10
percent by my estimate) is simply
not being used.
Because die cost is roughly
proportional to the square of the
die area (it reduces both the
number of die per wafer and the
effective yield), the unused
circuitry could be increasing the
net cost of the chip by 15 percent
to 20 percent.
The penalty could amount to
$10 or more per chip, which
translates to several points of
gross margin on every sale. While
it's true that Intel would have had
to spend $10 million or more to
tape out a more optimized part,
the company presumably hopes to
sell many millions of these chips,
so those upfront costs would have
been repaid quickly.
With Intel under pressure from
Wall Street to increase its gross
margins, I don't understand the
decision to price this part below
the Bloomfield derivatives in spite
of its higher cost.
Now, even if I'm right about
Lynnfield's higher cost, it's still
good news to PC buyers and
OEMs. Lynnfield is a more
efficient design than Bloomfield
and delivers very competitive
performance in spite of the
unimplemented features. The on-
chip PCI Express interface is a
much better deal for graphics;
with Bloomfield, reads and writes
to graphics chips had to go
through the chipset. Similar
benefits will probably be seen on
servers, where storage controllers
and other high-performance
peripherals can now be closer to
the CPU and main memory.
I also wonder where Lynnfield's
extra features will be used. Will
we see a desktop processor with
PCI Express, QPI, and all three
memory channels? Such a chip
would be a natural extension of
the Core i7 family, and pretty
darned attractive for high-
performance systems.
I suppose we'll find out
eventually. I just wish Intel would
be a little more open about its
product planning and not resort to
misdirection and obfuscation,
especially when it's releasing all
the pertinent facts and photos
anyway.
to House to cause his problems, it
turns out that Mayfield
Psychiatric Hospital is precisely
where he belongs. Or is it?
Continue reading House season
six -- An early look
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Mad Men: Guy
Walks Into An
Advertising Agency
By Allison Waldman (TV
Squad)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 12:34:00 AM
(S03E06) What do
disappointment, opportunities and
snakes have in common? They're
all themes in this episode of Mad
Men. The British, in the form of
Powell, Ford and Mackendrick
came to Sterling Cooper for a
visit, but what that visit meant
was anybody's guess. The visit
wrecking holiday plans for the
staff -- no Independence Day for
you, colonists -- was obvious
irony and true nonetheless. And
the Guy walking into the ad
agency, well, it would be a hollow
joke after this tragedy. More after
the jump.
Continue reading Mad Men:
Guy Walks Into An Advertising
Agency
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IBM North Carolina smart-grid trial Around the Net In Media: OOH
Firm Hanger Network
shaves power Rebrands, Expands
(CNET News.com) smart-grid technologies in the consumption by 40 percent,
Submitted at 9/21/2009 7:15:00 AM home. according IBM and Consert. (MediaPost | Media News) alternative to wire hangers, Vesta
Buildings were equipped with Consumers can also chose to Submitted at 9/20/2009 8:30:57 PM today generates 20% of its
Data from a smart-grid pilot w i r e l e s s s m a r t m e t e r a n d participate in the utility's demand business from product samples
project which uses smart meters c o n t r o l l e r s f o r t h e m a j o r response program where devices, Out-of-home advertising comes attached to dry-cleaning bundles
and wireless appliance controllers appliances in the home, such as such as a clothes dryer, are turned in myriad forms. The Hanger via pouches or hang-tags. The
shows that consumers can cut dishwasher and HVAC systems. down for a few minutes during N e t w o r k , f o r i n s t a n c e , h a s company has distributed razors
electricity use by 15 percent on These devices communicate with peak times. evolved from ads on clothes for Schick, Scrubbing Bubbles for
average. a digital thermostat. A gateway The energy-savings from the hangers to a marketing channel SC Johnson, and body wash for
IBM and Consert have been can send information to the utility pilot test are consistent with other reaching 35 million households. Caress.
r u n n i n g t h e p r o j e c t i n over a 3G wireless connection smart-grid projects. Many people As a result, the company is In November, Vesta will debut
Fayetteville, North Carolina for supplied by Verizon. are able to make adjustments to relaunching and expanding under an information booklet of holiday
the last six months and published The set-up allows people to see their home energy use simply by a n e w n a m e : V e s t a G r e e n recipes for a major consumer
the initial findings on Monday. via a PC how much electricity viewing real-time data which Marketing Solutions. It leverages packaged-goods brand. "The key
On Tuesday, the GridWeek they are consuming and to create might spotlight a big energy user, a network of 40,000 dry cleaners to our business [growth] was the
conference on the smart grid is a "profile" to improve efficiency. such as a pool pump. Typically, to offer a suite of eco-friendly ability to reach an affluent
scheduled to begin in Washington For example, a person can tools to program home appliances marketing programs. consumer in their home," says
D.C. program the cooling system or hot are necessary to get deeper cuts in Founded in 2003 on the concept CEO Jeff Jensen.
The term " smart grid" can mean water heater to turn off when energy use, experts say of a recycled and recyclable
different things to different people aren't in the home.
people, but the pilot test in North In some instances, customers
Carolina provides a picture of were able to cut electricity

Hooking the lizard brain up to the cerebral cortex

(Scripting News)
Submitted at 9/20/2009 8:21:15 PM
This is worth a special post as a
followup to the earlier piece, it's
so interesting.
I was talking with a friend
today, he's an expert in DNS, and
I said it's too bad people can't
open their supercloud.org sub-
domain in a browser. I understood
why this wasn't possible:
1. The browser is looking for an
A record or a CNAME, and we're
setting the TXT record.
My friend who doesn't want me
to say his name (and I respect
that) said it might not have to be
that way. We talked about
connecting the DNS with HTTP
and it was really intriguing. If you
think about it, DNS is like the
lizard brain of the Internet, and
HTTP, while it is in some ways
lower tech than DNS, is the
cerebral cortex. To have them
integrate is like bringing the
Wright Brothers plane they flew
at Kitty Hawk on an Apollo moon
mission. But that's the way we do
things in techland.
Then I thought -- wait a minute,
what's to stop me from also
registering an A record that points
back to me, and then keeping a
database locally that associates a
name with an RSS URL. Then
w h e n y o u o p e n y o u r database I'm keeping that's a
supercloud.org subdomain in a mirror of what's in the TXT
browser:
1. It comes to my machine.
2. It looks you up in the
records in DNS.
3. From there I get your RSS
address.
4. To which I simply do a 302
redirect.
Hah! I had to try it. And guess
what! The fcuker works!!
Try it out:
http://davewiner.supercloud.org/. Milestone: 20th
And then go through the
registration process, and try it out Anniversary of
yourself.
This is actually important Portable Mac Era
because everyone expected taht By Charles Moore
y o u ' d b e a b l e t o o p e n t h e (TheAppleBlog)
supercloud.org sub-domain in the Submitted at 9/20/2009 8:00:29 AM
browser. Now you can.
Today marks the 20th
anniversary of the original release
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of the Macintosh Portable — the
first truly untethered Mac, thanks
to its internal battery.
There’s a quote attributed to
Steve Jobs: “Do not trust a
computer that you cannot lift.”
The original compact desktop
Macs were offered with an
optional carrying case, and some
pioneer Mac-users did lug them
around, but analogous to the tiny
Mac mini today, they couldn’t be
considered truly portable due to
the necessity of a wall-current
umbilical.
The Mac Portable development
project was launched in 1986, not
long before Steve Jobs’ departure
from Apple, and the product was
first released for sale on
September 20, 1989. It was
featured on the cover of the
November 1989 edition of
MacUser magazine, which called
it “by far the most complex piece
of machinery devised by sale by
Apple computer.”
While it incorporated a laptop-
style foldable form factor with a
front-mounted carry
handle/lockdown lever, the Mac
Portable weighed only about a
pound less than contemporaneous
Mac Compact desktops — a hefty
16 pounds, due partly to it having
a robust lead-acid battery. It
wasn’t cheap either, selling for a
likewise heavyweight $6,500 —
or $7,300 with an optional hard
drive.
Internally, the Mac Portable had
a 16MHz Motorola 68HC000
processor chip, an internal 1.4MB
3.5-inch floppy drive, a 40MB 3.5
hard drive, and a whopping 1MB
of RAM, expandable to 9MB but
unfortunately in an oddball 30ns
SRAM card (one slot) module
format. The monitor screen was a
crisp 9.8 1-bit active matrix,
640×400, LCD — initially
without backlighting — and there
was also a video output port for
driving an external monitor. The
upside of that heavy lead-acid
battery was a very respectable
five-to-10 hour charge life.
Also included were an ADB
port for a keyboard and mouse,
DIN-8 serial ports for printer and
modem connections, and a DB-25
SCSI connector. An internal
modem was optional. An
interesting trivia note is that the
Portable was the first Mac to ship
with a pre-formatted hard drive
and a pre-installed operating
system.
Apple added a backlight to the
Macintosh Portable in February
1991 and also increased the
standard RAM to 2MB or 4MB,
changed the RAM ceiling to
8MB, and replaced the expensive
SRAM chips with less-expensive
pseudo-SRAM, although the
pseudo-SRAM and backlighting
reduced battery life.
The Mac Portable was replaced
by the PowerBook models 100,
140, and 170 in October 1991 —
the 100 slimmed down to five
pounds — launching the modern
laptop computer era with a form
factor essentially the same as the
one still dominant today.
However, the Portable gets credit
for pioneering the battery-
powered Mac concept. Happy
Anniversary! Read our latest
analysis piece, " Can the News
Industry Move Beyond Its
Napster Phase?" Only on
GigaOM Pro.
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Same Old, Same Old?
Not These Jets
By Lisa Olson (FanHouse)
Submitted at 9/20/2009 10:00:00 PM
by Lisa Olson
Filed under: NFL EAST
RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Pump up
the volume, Jets coach Rex Ryan
had implored fans in a taped
phone message, and so they did,
until the Meadowlands was
shaking like a thousand space
ships about to launch.
Don't just beat them, Jets safety
Kerry Rhodes had beseeched, try
to embarrass them, and while we
kept waiting for the visiting
Patriots to make Rhodes
regurgitate his bulletin board
words, the Meadowlands kept
getting louder and louder and
louder and louder. "I actually felt before he allows himself to again
the ground vibrating," Jets be outcoached, and the laws of
defensive end Shaun Ellis would football's universe suggest Ryan's
say later, after experiencing a day bravado will eventually backfire,
like no other in Gang Green's and New York's defense can't
tortured relationship with the always gloss over the mistakes
Patriots. made by Mark Sanchez, their
The tumblers shifted just rookie quarterback.
slightly Sunday in a division long Same Old, Same Old? Not
dominated by New England. It's These Jets originally appeared on
only Week 2 of the season, so Fanhouse - Lisa Olson on Sun, 20
caveats must be noted: surely Sep 2009 22:00:00 EST . Please
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Ray Lewis Saves Baltimore With 'One of The Greatest Plays' of His Career
By Nancy Gay (FanHouse) make a spectacular play he had short-yardage situation. Please see our terms for use of
created in his mind's eye, a scene
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NFL Diary: New York Giants 33, Dallas Cowboys 31
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 9/20/2009 3:54:41 PM
The Journal provides minute-by-
minute analysis of tonight’s NFL
game as the New York Giants
defeated Dallas Cowboys 33-31 in
Arlington, Texas. Journal staffer
Ben Casselman is at Cowboys
Stadium to offer commentary.
Reuters Eli Manning (10) threw
for 330 yards and two
touchdowns in the Giants’ win.
Well it was an entertaining
game held in an entertaining place
that much is for sure. The
Cowboys came into the game
hoping their offense stayed strong
and their defense improved. They
got both, putting together some
nice drives while keeping the
Giants offense in check for much
of the game. But the Cowboys
were victimized by mistakes,
especially by Tony Romo, who
threw three interceptions (and
could have thrown at least two
more).
For the Giants, they spoiled the
Cowboys’ big day by capitalizing
on Dallass mistakes and making
the plays when they needed them.
Big day for Mario Manningham,
who carried the team.
As for the stadium, Jerry Jones
didnt get his win, but he got pretty
much everything else he could
have asked for a beautiful day,
record-setting crowd and national
television exposure. Well see
what the fans say over the next
few days, but the early buzz
around the stadium was almost all
positive enthusiastically so. And
hey, no one hit the scoreboard.
You win this one, Mr. Jones.
(Well, apart from the whole
“losing” thing.)
11:48: Tynes’s 37-yard try is
good again, and this time it’s for
real–game over. Final score:
Giants 33, Cowboys 31. Turns out
$1.2 billion can’t guarantee a win.
Back with a wrap in a moment.
11:47: It’s up and it’s good! But
Dallas called timeout before the
snap — crowd goes wild. We’ll
do it again.
11:45: Giants call time out to
bring on the kicking team. As a
reminder, Lawrence Tynes
already missed a 29-yard kick
tonight, missing wide left in the
first half. So this one isn’t (quite)
over yet.
11:43: 39 seconds to go, Giants
have third and four on the
Cowboys 41 — and it’s complete
to Mario Manningham (again).
First and 10 on the Dallas 33. The
stadium has that “nervous
excitement” feel to it now. No
one’s relaxed, that’s for sure.
11:41: Just in case you were
truly wowed by the stadium
tonight, and have a few million
bucks burning a hole in your
pocket, there are still luxury suites
available. The team sold about
290 of the 325 suites in 20-year
contracts, but the rest are still
available. Get ‘em now before the
economy rebounds!
11:40: Giants make it! First and
ten at their own 40. Incidentally,
with the Eagles falling to the
Saints today, the winner of
tonight’s game will have sole
possession of first place in the
NFC East. Not that that matters
much at this stage of the season.
11:38: Giants face third and six
at the two-minute warning.
They’ve still got plenty of time to
drive the field, but they’ve got to
make this play first. This time, the
cheerleaders are getting the
reaction they’re looking for.
Interestingly, the video boards
facing the end zones aren’t
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Romo and kept Terrell Owens. 11:09: Touchdown Giants!
T.O. nabbed his first touchdown Steve Smith burns his defender
as a Bill today, by the way. for the easy 22-yard score. Giants
11:25: The scoreboard declares back on top 27-24 with 13 1/2
Marion Barber’s touchdown run minutes left in this see-saw of a
the “Play of the Game.” Not game.
showing a lot of confidence in a 11:09: Even if you don’t blame
comeback, now are they? Romo for the off-the-foot
11:22: Giants once again fail to interception in the second quarter,
showing quite the same images as convert on third down, and will he’s thrown at least three balls
the ones facing the sidelines. go for the field goal on fourth tonight he had no business
T h e y ’ r e b o t h s h o w i n g down. Tynes’s 36-yard kick is throwing (two of them were
cheerleaders, though. good — Giants now up 30-24. picked off). That’s not the kind of
11:36: A 10-yard holding call Cowboys now need a touchdown decision-making the Cowboys
starts the Giants off with a first to defend their new home turf. need from Romo. And this is
and 20 on their own 15. Eli 11:19: Mario Manningham reins without Jessica Simpson in the
Manning has a tall task ahead of in another pass (his ninth by my crowd (as far as we know).
him if he wants to spoil the count), this one for 25 yards. FOURTH QUARTER
Cowboys’ big night. Of course, he Giants are already at the Dallas 11:06: Third quarter ends with
has a history of that. 34. the Giants gunning down to the
11:33: Sinorice Moss takes the 11:17: Here’s a useless fact as Cowboys 24. Interestingly, the
kickoff 29 yards to the Giants 25. this one remains very much Giants controlled the ball for
3:34 to go in the game and the undecided: The Giants were also more than two minutes longer
new stadium is finally getting the visiting team for the first-ever than the Cowboys during the
truly loud. It really sounds like game at Denvers Invesco Field, in quarter. Of course, that says more
there are 100,000-plus people in 2001, a game the Broncos won 31 about the Cowboys’ offensive
here. Hope the neighbors weren’t -20. In all, teams opening new efficiency than the Giants’
planning on getting any sleep stadiums have gone 8-5 since success keeping their defense off
tonight. 1996. Apparently, last-game the field.
11:30: Touchdown Dallas! Felix nostalgia is better than first-game 11:03: Well that’s one way to
Jones bumps his way 7 yards into hypeteams went 11-2 in the final get more Giants catching
the end zone, putting the‘Boys game in their old stadium. Dallas, balls–interception! Giants pick off
back on top 31-30. Now the though, not so muchthe Boys lost Romo for the third time tonight.
pressure’s back on the Giants with to the Baltimore Ravens 33-24 in Doesn’t look like Romo ever saw
3:40 to go in the game. their last game in the old Texas Kenny Phillips, who made the
11:29: Marion Barber breaks Stadium. pick.
out with a 35-yard run down to 11:15: Romo floats yet another 11:02: Heres a telling stat: Last
the 7 yard line. Antonio Pierce pass, this one over the head of week, Eli Manning hit seven
looked totally out of place on that Patrick Crayton on third down. different receivers for 256 yards.
play. That’s another one that could In the first half tonight, just three
11:28: Romo throws 13 yards to have been picked off. Romo has different Giants caught passes.
Jason Witten to keep the drive looked very out of sorts on several This is where not having an elite
alive on third down. Cowboys plays tonight. Cowboys have to receiver can hurt you.
have the ball on the NY 45 with punt with 12:24 to go in the game. 11:00: New York is just three of
5:24 to go. Still plenty of time, 11:12: That play really took the 10 on third-down conversions
but the Cowboys need to show air out of this stadium. The tonight — make that three of 11.
they can still move the ball. cheerleaders are on the jumbotron Giants will have to punt yet again.
11:26: That didn’t take long — and yet there’s barely a murmur in Cowboys defense is vastly better
reader imua932 comments that the here. Cowboys will start on their
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than last week.
10:57: Giants will start off on
their own 20 after the kick. There
are still more than three minutes
to go in the third quarter, but this
drive feels like a must-score for
the Giants. They’ve lost all their
rhythm on both sides of the ball.
The crowd is definitely more alive
this half.
10:53: Romo overthrows yet
again, but on the next play he
takes it in himself–three yards for
the touchdown. Cowboys are back
on top 24-20 with about 3:30 left
in the quarter after another pretty
drive–this one seven plays for 83
yards. Giants defense looked
completely flummoxed that whole
drive.
10:52: Barber again, up to the
NY 3-yard-line. The only way the
Giants have been able to stop the
Cowboys tonight is by picking off
Romo–they have no answer to the
run.
10:50: Boy do the Giants wish
they’d made that pick! Felix Jones
breaks out for a long run,
followed by another 10-yard run
by Marion Barber. Cowboys have
the ball down to the NY 17. Once
again, they’re moving the ball at
will.
10:49: Ugly floater by Romo
should have been picked off by
Antonio Pierce. He got away with
one there.
10:48: Quick note as the
Cowboys get ready for their drive:
Jerry Jones was allegedly given
his choice of opponent to open the
new stadium, which demands the
question: Who would you have
picked? Do you go with a cream-
puff to try to ensure an opening-
day win? Pick a historic rival, like
the Eagles? Or do what Jerry
Jones apparently did and pick an
opponent in the nations biggest
media market? Not to be cynical.
For what its worth, Tony Romo
has had pretty good luck against
the Giants over his career, going 4
-2 in six starts. But one of those
losses came in the playoffs after
the 2007 season, when his drive in
the final minutes fell short. The
Giants, of course, went on to win
the Super Bowl that season.
10:46: Cowboys finally get their
stop, about 40 yards later than
they’d hoped. Still, pretty good
defensive effort by the ‘Boys.
After the punt, they’ll take over
on their own 17 with 6:05 left in
the quarter.
10:45: Mark the time: The first-
ever obscene chant in the new
stadium. This place must be
starting to feel like home.
10:44: Mannings pass falls
incomplete, but a holding call
gives him a first-down all the
same. That’s followed by a pass
interference call against Dallas’s
Terence Newman, and all of a
sudden it’s first down near
midfield.
10:40: Here comes the crowd!
Giants face third and eight on
their own 8, and are forced to call
a timeout to get their plans
together. Now this place is
starting to come alive.
10:36: Cowboys face a fourth
and four at midfield and opt to
punt. Good call, as Ahmad
Bradshaw calls for the fair catch
at the Giants 6-yard line.
10:35: Another stadium note: It
appears that there is no coffee
available anywhere in the
stadium. This is not a way to win
favor with the working press.
Cookies are good, though.
10:33: It’s official: This is the
biggest crowd at a regular-season
game in NFL history. There are
105,121 people here tonight. The
previous record was 103,467, set
in a Cardinals-49ers game held in
Mexico City in 2005.
10:32: And Tynes’s 29-yard
kick is wide left–no good! It’ll
stay 20-17. Cowboys defense
really hardened down at the end
of that drive. Now they’ve got a
chance to retake the lead.
10:30, part two: New York fails
to convert on third and seven from
the Cowboys 11. Looks like
theyre going to kick. Yet another
missed opportunity for the G-
men. Definite pattern emerging
here.
10:30: Maybe it’s just because
I’m paying attention to it, but the
crowd seems more alive on this
drive. Doesn’t seem to be
stopping the Giants at all, though.
10:28: Giants are on the march,
with some solid runs (their bread-
and-butter) down to the Dallas 14.
10:27: Still catching up from the
first half Reader Mitzie wins the
prize (sorry, no actual prize) for
our Six Flags quiz. The name
refers to the six national flags that
have flown over Texas, namely:
Spain, France, Mexico, the
Republic of Texas, the United
States and the Confederate States
of America (followed, of course,
by the USA again).
10:25: And the game is back!
Giants have the ball at their own
27. Let’s see which team made
the necessary adjustments at
halftime.
10:24: One other stadium
impressions at the midway point:
In the great debate over whether
the scoreboard is an asset or a
distraction, I say both. No doubt
Ive watched a fair bit of the game
on the screen. But lets face it,
unless youve got amazing seats
(and even if you do), it can be
hard to see whats going on during
the game when youre just
watching the field. And the image
quality is truly amazing.
10:23: A couple readers have
written in to ask about the sound
system, which had been an issue
during a couple of the preseason
games. I didnt hear the problems
that readers reported during the
national anthem, so I assume that
was connected to the NBC
broadcast, not the stadium (either
that or I was too wrapped up in
marveling at the greatness of a
country that can spend $1.2
billion on a sports arena). But
there does seem to be one sound
problem: Its way too quiet in here.
There are more than 100,000
people in this building, but the
crowd doesnt seem to be a factor
at all. Not sure if thats a question
of the roof being open or the fans
having spent too many hours
drinking beer in the sun before
kickoff.
THIRD QUARTER
Halftime: So weve completed
the first-ever half in the Greatest
Stadium Ever Built, and so far the
Empire State has the edge on the
Lone Star State Giants lead 20-17.
Its certainly been an entertaining
half so far. Cowboys have put
together a couple very nice
scoring drives, but were hobbled
by mistakesthree turnovers,
including one really ugly pick
thrown by Tony Romo. For the
Giants, meanwhile, it was a good
half that should have been better.
The G-men scored just one
offensive touchdown, while their
defense was a mixed-baggrabbing
two interceptions, but at other
points letting the Cowboys move
downfield at will. There have
been some great comments
coming in both on the blog and by
emailIll try to pull together some
responses here during halftime.
Stay tuned!
10:08: Cowboys manage to get
far enough down field to get
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within long field goal range, and
Nick Folk’s 47-yard kick is good!
Cowboys get within a field goal
20-17, Giants. That should be our
score at the half, barring a kickoff
return for a touchdown.
10:02: After the return, Dallas
starts on its own 34 with under a
minute to play in the half. Dallas
has all three of its timeouts
remaining, so theres time to put
together a drive here. Cowboys
would love to put together one
last scoring drive before the half.
10:00: Touchdown! Finally, the
Giants convert thanks to an
acrobatic catch by Mario
Manningham with 46 seconds
left. So barring a final-minute
drive by Tony Romo, well go into
the locker room with the Giants
up 20-14. The Giants have now
scored 17 points off turnovers.
9:58: And the ruling is:
interception! But in a lucky break
for the Cowboys, the ball was
whistled dead on the apparent
incompletion, so the run-back is
nullified. First and ten for the
Giants on the Cowboys 28. 1:21
to go in the half.
9:56: Romo throws to Jason
Witten, who appears to drop the
pass for an incompletion. BUT, it
looks like the ball bounced off the
foot of Witten and into the hands
of Giants defender Kenny
Phillips, who caught it on the
rebound for a possible
interception and returned for a
touchdown. Booth is reviewing
the play. This could be a huge
shift before the half.
9:52: Speaking of the video
board, it seems we are getting the
yellow first-down line after all.
Amazing how its hard to
remember life before that started.
Has there been a comparable
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sports-TV invention since the
instant replay?
9:48: More cheerleaders on the
video board, which seems like a
good moment to throw out a few
numbers. The board is 160 feet
long, 72 feet high and has a
resolution of 1080p, meaning its
as clear as your rich buddys high-
def flat screen. By the way,
Emmitt Smith just showed up on
the board not sure his ovation
was as big as the one for the
cheerleaders.
9:46: And no. Giants go three-
and-out and will have to punt.
Were at the two-minute warning.
9:42: Giants start at their own
42 with 3:14 to go in the half.
They need to put together a drive
here or else theyre going to go
into the locker room with the first
half feeling like a major missed
opportunity.
9:43: Cowboys start their drive
deep in their own territory, and go
nowhere. Mat McBriar will be
punting from the Cowboys’ end
zone. Giants should start their
drive with great field position.
9:41: Belated question: What
was former American Idol star
Jordin Sparks doing singing the
national anthem? Sure, her dad
played one season with the
Cowboys, but he played most of
his career for the Giants. Weren’t
they worried about a jinx? These
things can make a difference!
9:38: No sooner do I say that
than the Cowboys stop the Giants
drive in its tracks. Fourth and five,
and here comes the punting unit.
Cowboys defense is looking
strong.
9:36: The Giants certainly arent
having any trouble moving the
ball down the field. Two more
first-down passes and theyre
already at the Cowboys 43 with
around seven minutes left before
halftime. The question is: Can
they get in the end zone this time?
9:34: Other than the scoreboard,
the hot topic around the stadium
today are the party passes, $29
tickets that are known in less
ostentatious stadiums as standing
room only. The stadium as its
configured today has seats for
only about 75,000 fans. But throw
in another nearly 30,000 standees
and tonights game has a shot of
drawing the biggest crowd of any
regular-season game (in any
sport) in U.S. history. The new
stadium has three huge platforms
at either end zone, plus numerous
other spots around the building
with views of the field. They are
PACKED. If youre close to the
front, its a pretty sweet deal. If
youre not, well, at least you got to
the opening game at the new
stadium without burning the kids
college fund.
9:32: The Cowboys have
definitely looked better in their
scoring drives than the Giants
have. This one was eight plays for
73 yards. The Giants, meanwhile,
have been held to field goals
twice, and scored their touchdown
on a turnover. Not that that makes
the points count any less.
9:31: Cowboys apparently
agreed–Touchdown! Romo pass
to Jason Witten. Extra-point good.
Cowboys back on top, 14-13.
9:30: Marion Barber stuffed for
no gain twice. So now its third-
and-goal at the 1. This play feels
pretty key right here.
9:25: Crayton runs an end-
around into the backfield, takes a
toss from Felix Jones and runs the
ball to the Giants’ 1-yard line.
First and goal.
9:23: Miles Austin makes a nice
reception, made nicer by a 15-
yard facemask penalty. Cowboys
have a first down at the Giants 21.
They need to convert here.
9:19: Reader Jimmy notes that
Rudy Giuliani made the trip to
Dallas for the game tonight. With
him and President Bush, its like
an early-2000s Republican
reunion. No sign of Karl Rove.
9:18: Cowboys stop the Giants
at the 9, forcing the Giants to
settle for a 28-yard field goal yet
again. 13-7 Giants. The Cowboys
defense definitely looks better
than last week, when they let the
Bucs score TDs on all three of
their opportunities inside the 20.
The Giants, meanwhile, are
repeating a pattern from Week 1,
when they got just three points out
of their three red-zone trips.
SECOND QUARTER
9:14: First quarter ends with
New York on top 10-7 and
threatening to do more damage.
The Boys have actually looked
pretty good on offense, but their
mistakes (two turnovers) are
killing them. Giants held the ball
for 8:14 to the Cowboys’ 6:46.
9:10: Ill say this for the
scoreboard: It isnt just a big ad-
machine. They dont even show
ads during commercial breaks.
They also arent doing too much of
the Guess the attendance
gimmicks you see in other
stadiums.
Fun fact, by the way: The video
isnt the same as the network feed.
The Boys have their own camera
crew. One downside: No yellow
first-down line.
9:09: Ouch. Felix Jones fumbles
the kickoff return. Looks like he
just dropped itnot stripped or
anything. So now the Giants will
get another shot, from the
Cowboys 27. Boys defense will
need to step up here.
9:05: Romo is picked off! Bruce
Johnson grabs Romos floater and
runs it back 34 yards for the
touchdown. And just like that, its
10-7 Giants.
9:02: Giants have to punt from
their own 27. Jeff Feagles’ punt
also does not hit the scoreboard.
Of course, Feagles is about 105
years old. Im not sure he could hit
the board if he tried.
9:00: Anthony Spencer almost
picks off Eli Manning. Cowboys
defense has definitely looked
tougher so far tonight than last
week, when they gave up 450
yards to the Bucs.
8:58: Based on fan reaction,
getting on the scoreboard here
definitely seems like a bigger deal
than in other stadiums, though I
wouldnt want to try it if I had a zit
they arent kidding around about
that HD. In any case, it seems like
one good way to get on the Uber-
tron is to bring a sign bragging
about being from somewhere far
afieldlike, Born in Philadelphia
but Cowboys fan 4-evah.
Incidentally, the whole Americas
Team thing can be obnoxious, but
people really did come from
around the country for this game.
Wandering around the stadium
before game-time, we ran into
Cowboys fans visiting from New
Jersey, Florida and Calgary, as
well as every corner of Texas.
8:54: Touchdown Dallas! The G
-men may have been the first on
the board, but the Cowboys are
the first in the end zone, as Barber
goes up the middle for a 2-yard
score. Nice drive there by the
Cowboys–9 plays, 62 yards, 4:48
off the clock.‘Boys up 7-3 after
the extra point is good.
8:52: Marion Barber breaks
loose for 27 yards. Cowboys have
a first down at the Giants 13 And
now they have a first-and goal.
8:49: Our first bugle-call
Charge! Either the press-box
insulation is really good or the
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stadium has been pretty quiet so
far. Certainly the Giants didnt
seem to have any trouble
communicating on that last drive.
8:47: During our first break in
the action, a quick note about our
location tonight: Despite the team
name, the new stadium is not in
Dallas, but in Arlington, a city of
about 370,000 people smack in
between Dallas and Fort Worth.
Besides being home to the
original Six Flags (Reader quiz:
What are the six flags in
question?) and the Texas Rangers
(who at least had the graciousness
to call their field the Ballpark in
Arlington), Arlington is also the
largest city in the country without
a public-transportation system,
which could make for some traffic
nightmares (although most reports
are that things went smoothly
today). As it happens, the old
Texas Stadium wasnt in Dallas,
eitherit was in Irving, which is at
least in Dallas County. (Arlington
is in Tarrant County.)
Nonetheless, there have been
some tensions between Dallas and
Arlington over who should get
credit for the stadium. Thats led to
some interesting delicate
peacemakingSuper Bowl XLV (in
2011) is officially being hosted
not by either city but by North
Texas.
8:46: Felix Jones has a nice
second-effort on the kickoff
return, managing 38 yards. Boys
will take over at their own 38.
8:45: Dubya is sitting next to
John Madden. Both look happier
than they were in their old jobs.
8:44: After having a first-and-
ten in the red zone, the Giants go
nowhere and will have to kick the
field goal. 30-yard attempt by
Lawrence Tynes is good, meaning
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the Giants will be the first on the
board in the new stadium. But
stopping the TD is a victory for
the Boys defense. New York goes
up 3-0 with 9:03 left in the first
quarter.
8:41: Early complaint: Its really
hard to find the down, distance
and time, which are tucked away
in a corner of the stadium. Theyre
also on the scoreboard, but only
when the game is live, not during
replays. Major oversight (but
easily fixed).
8:39: After a couple nice first-
down passes, the Giants are at the
Dallas 38.
8:36: Third-down pass is
incomplete, meaning we get our
first punt. It does NOT hit the
scoreboard. Jerrys 1 for 1.
8:35: First play from
scrimmage: five-yard completion
to Marion Barber, who also takes
the ball on the next play (a three-
yard gain). Boys at their own 31.
8:33: And were off! Felix Jones
returns the kick 16 yards. Boys
will take over on their own 23.
FIRST QUARTER
8:30 p.m. ET: Notes from the
pregame ceremony:
– The ceremony opened with a
video set to Richard Strausss Also
Sprach Zarathustra, better known
as the theme from “2001: A Space
Odyssey.” Which is appropriate
for a building often known around
Terrell Owens Tweets: Cowboys Have a Tony Romo Problem
By Michael David Smith
(FanHouse)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 8:53:00 AM
by Michael David Smith
Filed under: Bills, Cowboys
Terrell Owens' new team, the
Buffalo Bills, won on Sunday
town as the spaceship.
– The video board has dedicated
at least as much time to the
cheerleaders as to football.
(Heard in the press box: Dude, I
think the video board is already
worth it.)
– The roof is indeed open. It
takes 12 minutes.
– Former U.S. President George
W. Bush, with wife Laura by his
side, handled the coin toss, which
Dallas won (it will receive). The
former first couple now live in
Dallas, and of course Dubya was
co-owner of the Texas Rangers in
his pre-government days.
– A video after the national
anthem likened the stadium to the
Pyramids, the Parthenon, the Taj
Majal and the Great Wall of
China. Not that Cowboys owner
Jerry Jones has an ego or
anything.
Pregame: Hello and welcome to
Cowboys Stadium, aka
Jerryworld, aka the Spaceship in
Arlington, aka This-Space-
Available Stadium. In a little
while, well be kicking off the first
-ever game in Jerry Joness billion-
dollar football shrine. Whats that
you say? The stadium has already
hosted two preseason games, two
soccer games, a college football
game (Brigham Youngs upset of
then-No. 3 Oklahoma) and even a
handful of high-school games?
afternoon. His old team, the
Dallas Cowboys, lost on Sunday
night. And Owens made it home
in time not just to watch the
Cowboys lose, but to go on
Twitter to take a shot at his old
quarterback, Tony Romo.
T e r r e l l O w e n s T w e e t s : Problem originally appeared on
Hush, you. Those didnt count.
OK, so this isnt necessarily
Americas first look at the Biggest
Stadium in the History of the
World (there was also a concert
with some guy named
McCartney), but Jerry Jones has
kept a few tricks up his sleeve for
the stadiums first NFL regular-
season game. The star at midfield
will be unveiled in a pregame
ceremony, Tom Landrys statue is
out front and were expecting the
roof to be open for the first time.
Jerrys Folly is easy to mock, what
with its over-the-top architecture,
ever-ballooning cost ($450
million above initial estimates)
and mammoth punt-blocking
scoreboard. But up close, the
place is undeniably impressive.
Part of that is a question of sheer
sizethe place is huge even by
mega-stadium standards.
But theres also tremendous
attention to detail that somehow
makes that scale a bit less
imposing. And the glass end-zone
doors and the roof let in so much
light (the roof is semi-translucent
even when closed) that the
stadium doesnt have that dark,
stale feel you get in so many big
domes. At least thats my
impression so farwell see what it
feels like once a hundred
thousand fans have had a chance
to spill their beer on it.
Cowboys Have a Tony Romo
Oh right, theres also a football
game being played tonight.
Considering all the attention on
the stadium, its easy to forget this
is also a showdown between NFC
East rivals, and two potential
playoff teams. Both of todays
teams won their Week 1 contests.
The Giants solidified their status
as perhaps the NFCs top team
with a 23-17 win over the
Redskins that wasnt nearly as
close as the final score suggests.
(Sorry, Skins fansthe fake field
goal was cool, but it doesnt mean
the outcome of the game was ever
in doubt.)
The Cowboys, meanwhile,
rolled over the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers in an impressive 34-
21 win that featured a career-best
353-yard performance from
quarterback Tony Romo,
despiteor perhaps because ofthe
absence of now-Buffalo Bill
Terrell Owens.
Expect both teams to be amped
up for tonights game, with the
Giants every bit as eager to spoil
the Cowboys big night as the
Cowboys are determined to open
their new home in style. Itll be
interesting to hear how loud this
place gets, and whether the crowd
has any impact on the game.
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Rafael Nadal pulls
out of Thailand Open
with stomach injury
By ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 4:52:17 AM
BANGKOK -- Rafael Nadal has
pulled out of the Thailand Open
due to an injury sustained at the
U.S. Open earlier this month.
Nadal was advised by his doctor
to withdraw from the Sept. 26-
Oct. 4 tournament to recover from
a stomach muscle problem, Suwat
Liptapanlop, president of the
Lawn Tennis Association of
Thailand, said Monday.
Complete results
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An ultrasound found that Nadal
had an "acute rupture of his right
abdominal muscle" that will
require physiotherapy, rest and
medication for "two to three
weeks," the chief doctor of the
Spanish Tennis Federation said in
a statement released by
tournament organizers on
Monday.
Nadal lost his U.S. Open
semifinal in straight sets to
Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro,
who went on to capture his first
Grand Slam title with an upset
victory over top-ranked Roger
Federer in the final.
Nadal was forced to skip a title
defense at Wimbledon due to sore
knees that kept him off tour for all
of June and July.
Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga,
the defending champion, will be
the top seed for the Bangkok
event.
Information from The
Associated Press and Reuters was
used in this report.
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USC drops to No. 12, Washington into Top 25

By Associated Press place votes. Texas had two and were No. 2 and USC was No. 3. New coach Steve Sarkisian, a
(ESPN.com) Alabama received three. The next week, USC moved up a former USC assistant, and the
Submitted at 9/20/2009 12:08:35 PM BYU dropped the farthest this spot, Miami dropped to sixth and Huskies did just that. Locker led a
week, from seventh to 19th after a the two programs kept drifting masterful late drive and Eric Folk
USC Drops Big In AP Poll USC 54-28 home loss to Florida State. apart. The Trojans became a top- kicked a 22-yard field goal with 3
Drops Big In AP Poll The Seminoles moved back into 10 fixture while the Hurricanes seconds left in the game. Rumor: GRIN Final
NEW YORK -- Southern the rankings at No. 18.
California dropped nine spots and The rest of the top 10 was
struggled to even crack the Top
25.
"We said early on that it wasn't
going to take us very long,"
Fantasy game in
o u t o f t h e t o p 1 0 i n T h e California at No. 6, followed by Since Nov. 3, 2002, Pete Sarkisian told reporters on hands of new studio
Associated Press college football LSU, Boise State, Miami and Carroll's second season at USC, Saturday. "I think maybe some
poll Sunday, and Washington Oklahoma. the Trojans have spent only six people outside our own little By JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
moved into the rankings for the The Hurricanes made the weeks out of the top 10 -- all in domain thought that that was just Submitted at 9/21/2009 9:58:00 AM

first time in six years. biggest jump of the ranked teams 2007 following an early October press-conference-speak."
A day after the Huskies upset from last week, moving up 11 home loss to 40-point underdog It was only a week ago that While the closure of GRIN was
the Trojans 16-13 on a late field spots after a 33-17 victory against Stanford. USC, behind freshman sad for many reasons, some of
goal, USC fell from No. 3 to No. Georgia Tech. The loss knocked Washington, like Miami, quarterback Matt Barkley, was you may have been disappointed
12 in the media poll. The Trojans the Yellow Jackets out of the contended for national coming off a dramatic comeback never to have seen the company's
became the second preseason top- rankings. Utah also dropped out championships earlier this decade, victory against Ohio State. Final Fantasy project, which we
five team to lose in the first three after a loss. but the Huskies have fallen on Barkley did not play against believe is the Fortress game seen
weeks of the season. Preseason Miami is in the top 10 for first even harder times than the 'Canes. Washington because of a sore in this concept art. Based on word
No. 3 Oklahoma lost its opener to time since the final regular-season Washington finished that 2003 shoulder. from "sources close to both
BYU. poll of the 2005 season. The season 6-5 and hasn't had a The Buckeyes are No. 13 in the [GRIN and Square Enix],"
Washington, ranked for the first H u r r i c a n e s p l a y a t N o . 1 1 winning season since. The new poll, followed by Cincinnati GamesIndustry.biz reports that the
time since Sept. 28, 2003, is No. Virginia Tech on Saturday in a Huskies hit rock bottom last and TCU. game is actually still in
24. huge Atlantic Coast Conference season, becoming the first Pac-10 Oklahoma State, Houston, development -- though obviously
No. 1 Florida and No. 2 Texas game. team to go 0-12. Florida State, BYU and Kansas no longer by GRIN. So, assuming
have held firm to their spots all Miami was the dominant team Jake Locker and the Huskies round out the top 20. Georgia, this new developer finishes the
season. No. 3 Alabama and No. 4 in college football during the snapped a 15-game losing streak North Carolina, Michigan, game, you'll get to see GRIN's
Mississippi moved up one spot in early 2000s. In the latter part of last week with a 42-23 victory Washington and Nebraska are the "unreleased masterpiece" after all.
t h e l a t e s t p o l l , g i v i n g t h e the decade, USC has taken the against Idaho, but beating the final five. Kind of.
Southeastern Conference three of Hurricanes' place. Vandals could hardly be viewed Copyright 2009 by The In fact, according to the report,
the top four teams in the nation. The last time Miami was ranked as a sign that Washington was Associated Press GRIN was removed from Fortress
Penn State remained No. 5. higher than USC was Oct. 26, ready to defeat USC for the first after six months due to "quality
Florida received 55 of 60 first- 2003. That week the Hurricanes time since 2001. issues," which means that the
game was in someone else's hands
before the studio shut down. The
Starting Five: Rolling With Dice-K loss of the Fortress job may then
have contributed to GRIN's
By Andrew Johnson momentum. Sox can be when their pitching is financial troubles.
(FanHouse) The enigmatic Red Sox right- rolling. Rumor: GRIN Final Fantasy
Submitted at 9/21/2009 6:00:00 AM hander who spent three months on More Coverage: Scoreboard| game in hands of new studio
the disabled list is 2-0 since Standings| Statistics originally appeared on Joystiq on
by Andrew Johnson returning. He followed up six Starting Five: Rolling With Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:58:00 EST.
Filed under: Blue Jays, Phillies, shutout innings against the Angels Dice-K originally appeared on Please see our terms for use of
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Report: San Francisco 49ers say New Gritty Giants Ruin Cowboys'
York Jets tampered with Michael Big Party
By Calvin Watkins (FanHouse)

Crabtree Submitted at 9/21/2009 2:28:00 AM

by Calvin Watkins
By ESPN.com news services known. years and $20 million with a Filed under: Cowboys, Giants,
(ESPN.com) "I wish we were playing them," reported $16 million guaranteed. NFC East ARLINGTON, Texas --
Submitted at 9/21/2009 7:09:17 AM Ryan said of the 49ers. Oakland Raiders receiver Sunday was supposed to be all
The newspaper reported the Jets Darrius Heyward-Bey, the No. 7 about the Cowboys and the debut
Report: 49ers File Charges continue to covet a big-name choice, signed a five-year contract of their $1.2 billion home.
Against Jets Report: 49ers File receiver after failing to land Percy that will guarantee him at least Instead, the Giants spoiled the
Charges Against Jets Harvin in this year's draft. Harvin $23.5 million. party.
The San Francisco 49ers, mired w a s p i c k e d 2 2 n d b y t h e Jacksonville Jaguars top pick Dallas prepared for the opening
in a contract impasse with first- M i n n e s o t a V i k i n g s . Eugene Monroe, taken eighth of the new Cowboys Stadium
round draft pick Michael 49ers team president Jed York overall, signed a five-year, $25 with a Diana Ross-headlined,
Crabtree, have filed tampering has said he recently tried to million contract that includes $19 private get-together on Saturday
charges with the NFL against the schedule a face-to-face meeting million guaranteed. night. Former President George
New York Jets, the New York w i t h C r a b t r e e a n d h i s There have been multiple W. Bush conducted the coin toss,
Daily News has reported, citing representative, Eugene Parker, but reports in the past month, and the Cowboys devoted the
unnamed sources. hadn't heard back. including from his cousin, that entire halftime to celebrating their
The Jets denied the allegations The 49ers have until Nov. 17 to Crabtree would re-enter the draft Ring of Honor. were the ugliest person asked to
through a spokesman, the paper sign Crabtree -- the 10th overall in 2010 and wait for the money he All the festivities ended late come to homecoming, huh?"
reported. pick -- or surrender his rights, thinks he deserves. Sunday, though, as the Giants Gritty Giants Ruin Cowboys'
NFC West blog which would force him back into Crabtree caught 97 passes for grabbed a gritty 33-31 victory that Big Party originally appeared on
ESPN.com's Mike Sando writes the pool for 2010's draft. Or they 1,165 yards and 19 touchdowns ended when Lawrence Tynes Fanhouse NFL Blog on Mon, 21
about all things NFC West in his could trade his rights to another last year during his sophomore made a 37-yard field goal as time Sep 2009 02:28:00 EST . Please
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said Monday on "Mike and Mike about all things AFC East in his Information from The
in the Morning" on ESPN Radio. division blog. Associated Press was used in this
" I t h i n k i t ' s r i d i c u l o u s , • Blog network: NFL Nation report.
personally." Crabtree, who turned 22 this
According to the Daily News, past Monday, hasn't accepted the
specifics of the allegations weren't 49ers' offer for approximately five

Blur crossing finish line in 2010

By Alexander Sliwinski pushing it toward a 2010 launch. Activision still has plenty on its Gallery: Blur
(Joystiq) According to Activision CEO plate this holiday season with Call Blur crossing finish line in 2010
Submitted at 9/21/2009 9:35:00 AM Mike Griffith, the move is being of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and originally appeared on Joystiq on
made to "fully optimize the vision DJ Hero. Then again, with the Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:35:00 EST.
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Rumor: 1UP 'source'

says Yakuza 3 is
Westward bound
By Andrew Yoon (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 1:00:00 AM

If fanboys complain loudly

Square Enix head predicts new Wii Video game characters come to enough, can they get a game
localized for an English release?
in 2011, says motion 'impact' for life, destroy humanity in The answer appears to be: yes, at
least according to an unnamed
Xbox, PlayStation will be 'small' Cloverbrawl 1UP source "close to the project,"
By Andrew Yoon (Joystiq) three platforms will start looking who says that " Yakuza 3 is
more like each other by the year By Andrew Yoon (Joystiq) executed, this is a must-watch for currently being localized for
Submitted at 9/21/2009 5:00:00 AM
2011, when he believes Nintendo Submitted at 9/21/2009 3:00:00 AM all gamers. release in the U.S. and European
The new motion controllers for will release the fabled successor Check it out after the break. markets."
both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 of the Wii. The system will add What if your favorite video [Thanks, Lumberjack Satan!] If true, it'll be interesting to see
a r e l i k e l y t o m a k e b i g features found on the PS3/360, game characters came to life? Continue reading Video game if people will actually buy the
appearances at this year's Tokyo and may also introduce a brand You'd think it would be a cause characters come to life, destroy game. The late-to-the-party PS2
G a m e S h o w . W h i l e b o t h new controller. It'll certainly be for celebration, but Cloverbrawl, humanity in Cloverbrawl release of Yakuza 2 was largely
M i c r o s o f t a n d S o n y a r e interesting to see what moves the latest film from the geniuses Video game characters come to ignored. Could Yakuza 3 meet the
attempting to take away some of consumers when an HD Nintendo behind LittleBigRevenge, life, destroy humanity in same fate, now that Yakuza 4 is
Nintendo's mindshare with its system exists concurrently with suggests otherwise. The two-part Cloverbrawl originally appeared already on its way to Japan?
new controllers, Square Enix head motion-enabled Microsoft and 2 0 - m i n u t e f i l m t o u t s s o m e on Joystiq on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 [Thanks, Marius!]
Yoichi Wada believes neither Sony systems. i m p r e s s i v e s p e c i a l e f f e c t s , 03:00:00 EST. Please see our Rumor: 1UP 'source' says
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Here are five minutes of Halo
Legends
By Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 9:10:00 AM
Spike got a five-minute look at
the upcoming anime Halo
Legends, and (as you'll see for
yourself right after the break) it's
got all our favorite tropes of the
genre: comically exaggerated
animations, vaguely effeminate
dudes and very weird-looking
soups.
Of course, it's also got
something else that's going to
have your eyes glued to all 298
Backstage Hair: Margaret Howell
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 9/20/2009 3:16:52 PM
Bumble and bumble's stylists are
the go-to hair gurus for fashion
shows all over the globe. Last
season, I caught them backstage
everywhere in Paris from Vivenne
Westwood working on Pamela
Anderson's tresses to the Rick
Owens show. This time around, I
seconds: Master Chief being a
total badass and kicking the living
crap out of a Brute. Enjoy.
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am getting a head start on their
fashion-hair wizardry and stalking
them at the London shows. So
backstage at Margaret Howell, I
chatted with Neil Moodie, who
was leading the hair team for the
show.
"The collection is all about the
end of the day on the beach, so I
tried to give that effect in the
hair," he told me. He was inspired
by what a woman likes when she
Lara Bohinc at Sass and Bide
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 9/20/2009 10:03:20 AM
Sass and Bide presented on the
London catwalks for the first time
ever, marking the trend of
designers making their way to
England's capital city for the 25th
anniversary of London Fashion
Week.
As it goes, the Prime Minister
was holding a reception for
fashion folk at 10 Downing that
coincided with the show, so lots
of editors and glamour girls were
with Mr. and Mrs Brown, while
other editors fidgeted in their
seats waiting to rush to the
reception once the catwalk lights
went up. Twiggy and Kimberly
Stewart held court, and I got to
catch up with one of my favorite
London It girls, designer Lara
Bohinc ( whose first footwear
collection is set to launch this
is at the beach all day, in and out
of the ocean, her hair stiff and a
spring).
Lara is a regular in the society
pages, a proud mommy of an
adorable little girl and the
proprietor of a successful label
bearing her name with a tony
Sloane Square shop to boot. She
little salty. He ended up with
loose braids and gently unkempt
tresses with cute headbands as
occassional accessories
To get the look: Use Bumble
and bumble prep spray and layer
it with Bumble surf spray, which
gives that instant beachy texture.
Then do the braid while the hair is
still wet and start it at the crown,
not making it too tight. As Neil
would put it, "It's beachy; it's how
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was so cute sitting in the front
row decked out all in jewelry and
a handbag of her own design.
After we caught up on summer
stories she told me about the
accessories she was sporting, all
her own designs, which were
inspired by everything from the
geometric interpretation of
animals (the necklace) to solar
and lunar eclipses (the rings) to
Middle Ages warriors (the belt.)
But what I really wanted to know
is how this girl about town keeps
herself together the way she does,
to which she replied with her
trademark sly smile, "Lots of
makeup! I don't get lots of sleep,
so makeup helps."
—Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin
Self-designed necklace in resin
and plated brass inspired by the
geometric interpretation of
animals
Bohinc's rings and belt
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women would do it, not how we
would do it, that's the idea."
But when I asked him the most
difficult thing about doing this
job, his reply was, "getting from
one place to another."
—Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin
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Designer Chat: Osman
Yousefzada
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 9/20/2009 3:37:16 PM
Osman Yousefzada, who
recently shortened his eponymous
label's name to just Osman, is one
of London's budding design stars.
He was asked to head Halston this
year, but turned down the offer in
order to continue working on his
own label. This season's
collection wowed the crowd with
drama, from Sesilee Lopez taking
the catwalk to the brightness of
the all-white palette. But isn't it
fun to find out what was in the
designer's mind when designing a
collection that just made it down
the runway? So Osman gave me a
tiny bit of insight into his mindset
backstage after the show.
He wanted his collection to stay
in step with his aesthetic toward
shape and draping and tried to
send a message similar to that of
his past collections: "Sort of
grown-up, quite chic,
sophisticated, a bit artsy, a bit
intelligent," was his description.
But why all white this time
Street Chic: London Fashion Week
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 9/20/2009 7:21:10 PM
Give the bold shoulder in a dark
around? "I have always wanted to
do a white collection," he
laughed, "and never had the guts
until now." So, where does a
designer get a sudden splurge of
guts to do something new and
daring? "I think I am mature
enough now as a designer to show
a white collection," he explained.
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One to Watch: Behnaz Kanani,
Shoe Designer
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 9/20/2009 12:36:03 PM
Behnaz Kanani is a shoe whiz on
the rise. After working alongside
the creative director at Jimmy
Choo, she left the company to
start her own eponymous label in
2006. I was seated next to her at
the Danielle Scutt show only to
learn she did the shoes for the
show and also for the Osman
show later that day. She walked
me through the process of
designing footwear for a
collection, which of course,
includes meeting the designer and
going through their various
inspirations and fabrics. Since this
is the first season Behnaz is
collaborating with Danielle, the
shoe designer wanted to focus on
one style and the result was a
funky, very high-heeled yet
simple shoe exclusivley to match
the collection. What's the most
Daily.
exciting thing about her job? "It's
a lot of fun!" she laughed. "I love
what I do, so everything about it
is exciting."
—Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin
Behnaz Kanani
Kanani's shoes at Osman
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Submitted at 9/20/2009 8:23:49 PM
As multiplatform distribution
takes root, audiences have more
options to choose the shows they
watch and when they watch them.
So pay cablers, such as HBO,
Showtime and Starz, will have to
work harder to keep their
customers writing monthly
checks. If viewers know they can
eventually check out HBO's "True
Blood" or Showtime's "Dexter"
via iTunes or DVD, that
flexibility may dampen the
incentive to pay a monthly
subscription fee, especially in a
recession.
The next frontier for pay TV
players is Web streaming of hit
shows a la Hulu and YouTube.
Starz has a service dubbed Starz
Play in partnership with Netflix
that makes the main Starz channel
available for Web streaming, for
an extra fee. HBO is preparing for
the rollout later this year of its
"HBO Go" service, which is part
of the TV Everywhere broadband
push.
So far there's no sign of a mass
exodus in the latest subscriber
figures for pay TV's Big Three.
And pay TV execs downplay any
such threat. Still, industry
observers say the growth of
viewing options could become a
speed bump for the sector that has
seen subscriber growth plateau at
about 30 million homes recently.
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A GQ.com Interview with Nick Cave
By stylemens (GQ: The
Editors)
Submitted at 9/21/2009 7:10:57 AM
In the annals of superfluous
creative cross-overs—writers who
rock, rappers who act, Ethan
Hawke—Nick Cave is gloriously
immuned. Whatever it is he’s
working on–a screenplay, an
opera, a new Bad Seeds record, or
a movie score–it isn’t merely an
indulgent lark or an attempt to
prove he can hold his own in
another genre. It’s just another
means to express his wise,
salacious self. This month, twenty
years after his first novel, And the
Ass Saw the Angel, he released
his second, The Death of Bunny
Munro, which recounts the last
days of a comically lascivious,
vagina-obsessed salesman. The 52
-year old Cave says the book was
influenced enormously by two
great works of literature: The
Gospel According to Mark, and
Valerie Solanas’s SCUM
Manifesto. We’ll let him
explain.— mark healy
Bunny Munro is a prisoner of
his own libido. Have you come
across any real characters who are
so beholden to their desires?
By their desires? Yeah, I have.
First of all, most of the men that
I’ve spoken to that have read this
book see within their character
certain elements of Bunny Munro.
And I’m not as sexually
motivated as him, but I’m an artist
and I think that in some kind of
way we are similar in that we
pursue something to the detriment
of those around us. I think that the
artistic processes are hugely
selfish and egocentric.
Really? You think your various
creative pursuits have come at the
detriment of yourself and others?
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I don’t think that they’ve come just go down to the office every
at the detriment of myself, but morning. I try not to judge any of
yeah. I’ve tried and made every it. If I go down there and stay
effort, I have to say, and I’ve there all day the work has been
pretty much tried to keep writing done whether I’ve done anything
as a 9 to 5 job, but it’s very or not, if you know what I mean.
difficult to turn off. One of the There aren’t many rock stars
skills I guess I’ve learned over the who can write novels.
years is the ability to put things I don’t know…I can see why
away. But it wasn’t always that musicians don’t write books
way. because I think to a lot of
Do you always work a regular musicians it would be way more
day? enjoyable to make a record. It’s
Well, it depends what I’m something that you kind of do
working on. But I get up in the with your mates and if you’re
morning and I put on a suit and I successful you make a whole lotta
go down to the basement, which I money out of it and it’s good fun
have to walk outside the house to and you get to smoke and drink
get to, so it does feel like there is and take drugs and have sex with
a physical distance between my women and all the rest. Why sit
personal life and my work life, down and become an author?
my imaginative life. It’s just a few Where you have to sit alone at a
stairs, but I do have to actually go desk and actually put in the hours.
outside. That seems to be kind of I mean, it doesn’t make any sense.
important to me in some way, I personally approach rock-and-
because the work I’m largely roll music in a writerly sort of
engaged in—well at least when way. So it’s not so difficult, the
I’m songwriting—is a kind of transition, for me.
woman’s work, basically trying to Last year you recorded a song
give birth. It feels to me like I’m called “And We Call Upon the
trying to squeeze a watermelon Author to Explain,” where you
out of a tiny aperture. And there’s praise John Berryman and sort of
all the attendants screaming and diss Charles Bukowski. I kind of
cursing and blood. The writing of think Bukowski sucks myself…
a novel, on the other hand, was At last! We can all come
much easier, and much more fun, forward. You can never separate
and much more enjoyable. In fact Bukowski the man from his
I did that on the tour bus. I did writing. If you took Bukowski the
that in hotels late at night, man away from his writing there’s
backstage and on the bus when I very little there but kind of self-
was on a tour around Europe and referential…shit. But even though
in America, as well. Berryman had a very colorful life,
Do you just keep writing or do he was largely in our
you have to wait for inspiration? imaginations. When you think of
Oh, I can’t afford to wait around Berryman you think of his poems
for inspiration. Inspiration is and you think of his character
overrated. I can’t be worried Henry and all of that stuff. When
about whether I’m having a good you’re gonna go down and build a get built if you wait for the day you think of Bukowski you just
day or a bad day. I look at the brick wall, you need to go down that you actually feel like getting
whole thing as kind of labor. If and build a brick wall. It’ll never out the bricks and the mortar. So I GQ.COM page 56
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think of Bukowski. I think the
point that I was trying to make is
that Berryman is brilliant. He’s
had more impact on what I do
than anybody else, so…
You recently did the score to the
movie version of The Road. What
did you think of that as a book?
Initially I found it to be quite
difficult but by the end of it I was
weeping real tears. That language
I found quite difficult. I thought it
felt kind of self-conscious. I’m a
big fan of Cormac McCarthy’s
writing, but this particular book
felt a little like that for me. I was
sort of slowly pulled into the
whole thing. I thought the whole
device of the apocalypse—it was
so brutal. If he’d put it in some
other context—the final
conversation between the father
and son would have almost
sounded mawkish…but because
the landscape was so unforgiving
and merciless it worked
beautifully. I was turning the
pages in tears. I think that’s a fine
achievement for a novel.
You’ve got a similar father-son
scenario in Bunny Munro. Were
you wary of making it overly
sentimental?
I mean, the only way it could
have worked is if we can maintain
some sympathy with Bunny
Munro and that was, I guess, the
most difficult juggling act. In
Britain there is a particular kind of
character that has that sort of
Around the Net In Media: Ad Slumps Slows at Community Newspapers
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 9/20/2009 8:28:32 PM
The quarterly decline of ad
revenue at community
newspapers is starting to slow. Ad
sensibility and humor that Bunny
Munro has, and the Brits love
him. He’s laddish, sex-obsessed,
thinks that breasts are kind of
funny, and, you know, that whole
Benny Hill kind of misogynistic
sensibility toward women. I
hoped that I could keep the reader
to maintain a certain sympathy for
that character even though by the
end of it, he is a monster. But
what I really wanted to show is
where that humor and that kind of
mentality can lead to. So as a
writer, I’m not necessarily on the
side of that character, but he did
need to have some sympathy with
him for the relationship with his
son to work. If Bunny was such a
complete asshole, then you don’t
care whether the son likes him or
not. So the idea of a 9-year-old—I
have two 9-year-olds
myself—that your father can do
no wrong, was interesting to me.
That I could create a monster, that
no matter how fucked up this man
became, the son just loved him
even more.
And do you have that with your
9-year-olds?
Absolutely. I’m Superman. But
I know that it doesn’t last,
because I have two 18-year-olds
as well, and I know that in a few
years time the Superman gets kind
of dismantled and you become a
human being with all of your
flaws and faults and inadequacies.
Is there a morality tale here?
revenue was down 18.7% in the
first quarter 2009 year-over year,
per Suburban Newspapers of
America. In the second quarter the
decline was 12.4%.
Advertising revenue at
I think on one level. I don’t
think that I’m trying to say
“repent.” I believe that what goes
on in Bunny Munro’s character is
in all men. It is innate within
us—a kind of predatory
sexualness—just as violence is
kind of innate within us. We’re
born with it. I think certain other
things we must learn in order to
negotiate ourselves through life,
and those things are the better
a s p e c t s o f o u r
character—empathy and intimacy
and those sorts of things. So I was
determined not to write a book
about a monster who sees the
error of his ways and kind of
repents which is the normal way
in which a lot of these novels go. I
don’t go for the facing up to our
faults and the admission of our
sins and all the sort of stuff as
necessarily a redemptive thing.
Can you recommend the Bible
as a good read?
Well you know, I wouldn’t go
through the whole thing. I would
be selective about it. For me, the
basic structure of the
screenplay—and actually of the
book itself—is based for me on
the gospel of Mark, in that this is
one of the four gospels of the
story of Jesus Christ. And the
story of the gospel of Mark
absolutely concerns [itself] from
the word go with Christ’s death.
It’s this kind of garbled story that
just wants to get to the punch line,
community newspapers is
shrinking at half the rate of the
national industry average. In Q1
national newspaper ad revenue
fell 28.2% and in Q2 it fell 29%,
per the Newspaper Association of
which is the death of the
protagonist. And so it is with the
story that I’ve written—it’s called
The Death of Bunny Munro. And
the gospel of Mark is episodic in
the same way. It’s a road trip…So
that had a huge influence over the
structure of the book. The other
book that had a huge influence
over this is Valerie Solanas’s
SCUM Manifesto. Have you ever
read that?
I haven’t.
Man, you gotta read it. It’s just
some of the most beautiful,
angriest vitriol you’ve ever read
against maleness. And in the first
couple of pages of that she does a
beautiful job of describing what
she sees as the male condition.
It’s super-pissed off. And the way
she describes the male is very
much that he is kind of half dead
and incapable of relating to
anything other than his own
physical sensation. And incapable
of any mental passion or
interaction, or sensitivities, just an
unresponsive blob. I mean, it’s
very, very beautiful the way she
talks about that. And something
that I kind of, on some level,
recognize and agree with. And so,
to me, that was what Bunny
Munro was based on in some kind
of way. So it’s kind of the Gospel
of Mark pulped together with the
SCUM Manifesto.
America.
The community paper survey
included 32 newspaper
organizations totaling 12.5 million
in circulation. "Once again, the
figures make it apparent that the
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Ownership Rules Could
Stymie Restructurings
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 9/20/2009 8:27:20 PM
Wall Street lenders are hitting
roadblocks over U.S. media-
ownership rules as distressed
firms restructure debt by offering
equity stakes. The lenders are
tripping over the federal
regulations as they find
themselves the unexpected
owners of several distressed radio,
television and newspaper
companies.
The issue has taken center stage
at Citadel Broadcasting, as one of
the U.S.'s largest radio
broadcasters races to revamp its
balance sheet. Citadel has offered
senior lenders owed $2 billion --
including J.P. Morgan Chase &
Co., General Electric Co.'s GE
Capital and ING Groep NV -- a
deal that would exchange a big
chunk of debt for equity. In other
restructurings, J.P. Morgan could
end up a shareholder of Tribune
and could take over Freedom
Communications. It has already
taken over Journal Register.
newspaper industry in general is
taking a harder economic hit than
the community newspapers," says
Nancy Lane, president of SNA.
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Condand#233; Titles Are Saved,
Expenses Slashed
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 9/20/2009 8:26:01 PM
Condé Nast magazines Teen
Vogue, Allure and Details are
believed to be bleeding red ink
and have been on the watch list
for possible shutdowns. But they
are all going to be spared, at least
this year, say insiders.
A blueprint for keeping all the
company's magazine brands intact
is expected in an upcoming report
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from management consultants
McKinsey & Co. At the same
time, there will be some major
ratcheting down of expenses
across the board. For instance,
Graydon Carter, the editor-in-
chief of Vanity Fair, had intended
to make the trek to the upcoming
European fashion shows, but is
now playing corporate good
citizen and skipping the runway
shows.