June 2011
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FEC Approves Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC for... →
abcnewsradio:
(WASHINGTON) — Stephen Colbert won a judgment at the Federal Election Commission Thursday morning, paving the way for the popular comedian to establish and operate his own political action committee and accept unlimited donations in the 2012 election cycle.
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Senators Release ‘It Gets Better’ Video →
abcnewsradio:
“Every loving couple should have the right to be married, to be able to celebrate that love, that commitment with all of their friends and loved ones around,” says Gillibrand. “Sexual orientation should not be a factor in a person’s access to equality,” says Sen. Feinstein at another point in the video.
“And it certainly shouldn’t be the policy of the United States government,”...
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Google 'Plus One'
Google ‘Plus One’ will kick off a ‘war of maturation’ for the social web. No more holes to fill or platforms to evangelize. The prize will now be: who is most perfect. The public will no longer settle for ‘good enough,’ or ‘this platform solves that platform’s problem.’ Google ‘Plus One’s’ failures or success are less relevant...
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“I’m not going to make news on that today. Good try, though.”
– President Obama on being asked his views on same-sex marriage during today’s press conference. (via joshsternberg)
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Greek Parliament Approves Austerity Measures →
abcnewsradio:
(ATHENS, Greece) — Amid protests, the Greek Parliament voted Wednesday in favor of budget cuts that will grant the country the bailout loans it needs to help get itself out of massive debt. The vote — imposing $40 billion worth of austerity measures, primarily in wage cuts and tax hikes — passed 155 to 138, paving the way for Europe and the International Monetary Fund to release...
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Soup: Protests Return to Tahrir Square →
Leading by example: great reportage-as-curation by @acarvin and @antderosa.
soupsoup:
Unhappy with the progress of bringing former senior officials to trial, protesters took to Tahrir Square, the center of the Egypt uprising. Protesters and police exchanged fire, using rocks and teargas.
Tahrir Scousemouse2000 “ The young people of Cairo…
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Anti-Government Protests Continue in Egypt's... →
abcnewsradio:
(CAIRO) — Cairo’s central square on Wednesday is once again the scene of violent anti-government protests. Egyptian riot police are using tear gas and firing rubber bullets, but a few thousand protestors are refusing to leave the area around Tahrir Square. Some of them are throwing rocks and firebombs at the police. Dozens have been injured. Many of the protestors are reportedly...
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“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind...”
– Henry Ford (via jonathanmoore)
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NY Times: Children of Darkness →
Urban Exploring in NYC
July 29, 2007By BEN GIBBERD
JOE ANASTASIO, a slim, dark-haired Web designer for a Wall Street publishing company, was standing outside Madison Square Garden, dressed in black work boots, a torn blue check shirt and a bomber jacket. It was a brisk Sunday morning in the spring, and among the swirl of tourists clutching maps and hockey fans in Rangers jerseys, he might...
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Bus-Sized Asteroid Barely Misses Hitting Earth →
abcnewsradio:
(PASADENA, Calif.) — A small asteroid, estimated between 16 and 65 feet in diameter, whipped past Earth on Monday — missing by a mere 7,600 miles. The space agency had earlier predicted no probability of the asteroid striking the Earth. NASA’s @AsteroidWatch tweeted last week: “There is no chance that 2011 MD will hit Earth but scientists will use the close pass as opportunity to...
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Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth Monday →
abcnewsradio:
(PASADENA, Calif.) — An asteroid will inch its way towards Earth on Monday but don’t expect any scenes from the movie Armageddon to play out. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says asteroid 2011 MD will pass 12,300 kilometers, or 7,600 miles, above the southern Atlantic Ocean around 1:00 p.m. EDT. Although the space rock is relatively small, measuring only between five and 20...
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Hacking Group Lulz Security Says It Is Ending... →
soupsoup:
Friends around the globe,
We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us. 50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the Internet. The hate machine, the love machine, the machine powered by many machines. We are all part of it, helping it grow, and helping it grow on us.
For the past 50 days we’ve...
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LulzSec and the 'A-Team' →
From Pasteboard:
To understand who/what lulzsec/gn0sis are/is you need to understand where they came from. Everything originates from the *chan (4chan/711chan/etc.) culture. This internet subculture is pretty much the dregs of the internet. It’s a culture built around the anonymity of the internet. If your anonymous no one can find you. No one can hurt...
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Interview with Laughing Squid →
This post was originally created for @abcnewsradio and can be found here. From his days as a documentary filmmaker in San Francisco to the New York technology scene, Scott Beale has been on the… …
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The Longest Week: One of the great things about... →
joshsternberg:
One of the great things about America is that just about everyone, at some point in their familial line, has an amazing and compelling immigration story. We often forget this, as we spit venom towards those who cross our borders, a tactic that has been replayed again and again over the…
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FBI Data Center Raid Disrupts Instapaper →
abcnewsradio:
(NEW YORK) — Instapaper, a service that stores web pages for offline viewing, recently experienced a significant reduction in performance. While performance issues frequently plague small Internet companies, Instapaper’s troubles may have been analogue, not digital.
This afternoon founder and developer Marco Arment reported on his blog that Instapaper servers were seized by the...
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Instapaper Blog: The FBI stole an Instapaper... →
instapaper:
One of Instapaper’s five leased servers was hosted at DigitalOne, a Swiss hosting company leasing blade servers from a Virginia datacenter. Early Tuesday morning, the FBI raided the datacenter to seize servers used by another DigitalOne customer for fraudulent “scareware” distribution, according…
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As Saudi Women Take the Wheel, US Takes a Backseat →
(WASHINGTON) — Women in Saudi Arabia are continuing their fight to drive, hitting the streets of Riyadh this week and asking family-friendly Subaru to boycott the Saudi market until the ban is lifted. But in the months since this wave of the movement started, one of the world’s leading advocates for women’s rights, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, had been notably silent....
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Dear Tumblr: Thanks! You've been a stellar...
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Doing a little Obama pre-game. So, what do you...
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United Nations Votes on Resolution for Global Gay... →
abcnewsradio:
(GENEVA) — The United Nations Human Rights Council approved a historic resolution on Friday that recognizes and calls for gay rights around the world. The measure was passed with 23 votes in favor, 19 against and three abstentions. It was introduced by South Africa and met with opposition from Arab and African countries. The Obama administration is touting this as evidence of its...
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@steverubel: Tumblr is the Next Great Social... →
Well put, Maury.
Dear everyone else: welcome to the party. Some of us have been here for a while.
mopostal:
steverubel:
Brent Simmons sees a natural evolution for blogs…
“New blogging systems like Posterous and Tumblr seem to be pretty popular, and they fill a nice middle ground: short content, easy sharing, social stuff. They’re cool.
But try to imagine replacing Daring Fireball,...
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Interviews From The 2011 United Nations Talk Radio... →
abcnewsradio:
The following interviews were conducted by ABC News Radio’s Dan Patterson during the 2011 UN Talk Radio Day. Hosted by the UN Foundation in a ‘radio row’ format (a rapid-fire series of interviews), Talk Radio Day pairs UN policy-makers and officials with talk radio hosts and journalists.
Mark Lyal Grant - UK Ambassador to the UN
Kazuo Kodama – Japanese Ambassador to the UN
Janos...
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The Longest Week: As announced earlier, I would... →
joshsternberg:
As announced earlier, I would like to replace Anthony Weiner as NYs 9th District representative. According to eHow’s guide “How to Become A Congressman,” there are seven steps to be elected.
Steps 1 and 2 center on leadership skills (check - I think owning a business and being a former teacher…
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Listen Live at 2:00pm ET to Anythony Weiner's... →
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Report: Majority of Guns Used in Mexico's Violence... →
(WASHINGTON) — A U.S. Congressional report shows the majority of guns utilized by Mexico drug gangs originate from the United States. The report, Halting US Firearms Trafficking to Mexico, details that more than 70% of the 29,284 firearms recovered from Mexican crime scenes for tracing, are discovered to have come from the U.S.
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