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By George WillWASHINGTON -- The Spanish professor is puzzled. Why, Gabriel Calzada wonders, is the U.S. president recommending that America emulate the Spanish model for creating "green jobs" in "alternative energy" even though Spain's unemployment rate is 18.1 percent -- more than double the European Union average -- partl (Read More)
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A Screen Capture from My AmplifeederLifestreaming fans over the last few years have found newer and more fully-featured options to aggregate all their online activity. In addition to social networks like Facebook, FriendFeed and other external sites, there are products that let you pull the data into your blog, and there ar (Read More)
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By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Facebook/FriendFeed)The Facebook Platform just got a whole lot more interesting today as the all-powerful Analytics company, Omniture, Inc. released a new suite of analytics libraries for developers writing for the Facebook Platform. The analytics aim to improve, in heavy detail how Facebook (Read More)
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TechCrunch
Twitter had been planning to have a 90 minute downtime tonight for maintenance. Given what’s going on over in Iran right now, that was a problem. And so Twitter has decided to reschedule the maintenance so the protests can go on.This is a good move by Twitter. It clearly didn’t want to have to move the maintenance window th (Read More)
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Big Hollywood
Lately it seems like most of what the left considers intellectualism is just condescending arrogance based mostly on talking points and ungrounded assumptions.Take, for instance, the debate over marijuana legalization. It is always assumed that the Democrats are in favor of legalization while the Republicans want to keep it (Read More)
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The centenary of John Wayne’s birth passed in 2007 with hardly any attention from the U.S. media, which shows both how out of touch the critical community is and how much more astute audiences are than the great majority of those who would presume to guide them. This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the death of the (Read More)
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Gizmodo
The new app "Incoming!" makes it possible to use Skype over 3G and Edge networks by turning all of your outgoing calls into incoming calls with the help of a partner desktop app. •Turn your outgoing calls into incoming calls using the Incoming! desktop application along with the iPhone application. •Depending on your phon (Read More)
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The Corner
Thanks, Andy. But shouldn't you be swimming and drinking sweet things with little plastic umbrellas in the glass?Meanwhile: Tuesday morning. Neither I nor anyone I know has been able to find a Spiegel story about "five thousand Hezbollahis" operating in Iran. So I think the claim on Twitter was probably false, at least so f (Read More)
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If you didn't know it yet, Up! is a cinema masterpiece. Inspiring storytelling, which captures the essence of the best Frank Capra and Billy Wilder. The script made me cry and laugh. The cinematography made my head spin. Here's the whole movie in 120 frames. SPOILERS WARNING Click on the image to enlarge at 1400 px wide. Do (Read More)
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