LA Times:
The pilot who flew his Soviet-made jet close to the pier has lost his license, but the use of military jets by civilian pilots is a broader issue. (Read More)
LA Times:
Established in the 1940s as Stone Bros. with a heavily Jewish clientele, La Popular is seeing its Latino customers give way to actors and college students. (Read More)
Huffington Post:
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Police say a U.S. tourist who was pretending to be surfing on the hood of a friend's moving car was killed when he fell and broke his neck in a popular Puerto Rican beach town.Police spokeswoman Yoland (Read More)
Huffington Post:
One day in the middle of my first-ever book tour, a thought woke me up early in the morning. I'd just had an event at a popular L.A. bookstore. I saw old friends, answered great questions, sold a good amount of books. But tha (Read More)
Mashable!:
Last week we reported on Google’s new music discovery features. The Google music search endeavor is partnership between Google, MySpace, Lala, and several others to make music search and discovery a primary feature of the Goo (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze a new breed of content site that is rapidly gaining momentum, look into recent statistics showing that Gen Y is using (Read More)
Crooks and Liars:
Ben Stein was axed by the New York Times last year for ethics violations when he appeared in a commercial for a bait and switch credit report scam. The ad claimed that consumers could get a free credit report, but in reality (Read More)
Daily Kos:
A new entry in the Urban Dictionary: Scozzafavaed (Pronounced: skoʊzəfavəd) -verb Purged of moderation, e.g., within in a Congressional district Inadvertently revealed internal chaos, e.g., within in (sic) a political p (Read More)
Wired: Gadget Lab:
After Verizon aired advertisements bashing the iPhone, many tech observers agreed it was unimaginable that Apple could be considering sharing the popular smartphone with Verizon. But a new report suggests the contrary.Apple i (Read More)
BLORGE.com:
The unstoppable juggernaut known as Facebook continues leaving a path of destruction in its wake as it adds even more users.According to All Facebook, the popular social network has now broken through the 325 million register (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Some former allies of Rod Blagojevich lined up Friday to support the disgraced former governor's old running mate and successor, Pat Quinn.Several North Side Democratic politicians, most notably Blagojevich's estranged father (Read More)
Mashable!:
We were sort of surprised to discover how many of you proclaim your love for FarmVille, the social farming sim game from Zynga. We reported that the company had trademarked the name FishVille last month, and speculated that a (Read More)
Huffington Post:
More and more, the titles showing up in movie previews are familiar -- you've seen them on your bookshelf. It's true for both adult books (think The Time Traveler's Wife and The Notebook) and teen reads, but arguably the move (Read More)
Valleywag:
This week was all about gun violence and terrible elections and Jay Leno. Nouriel Roubini likes to rock the party. JFK blown away, what else did Mad Men have to say about how crazy it was that things were different in the ea (Read More)
Mashable!:
As you can probably tell from our extensive coverage this week, we’re extremely excited about the possibilities of Twitter Lists: from how news organizations are leveraging the feature, to a full Twitter Lists FAQ to the pote (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Arianna Huffington and Drew Westen earlier this week posted persuasive arguments that Barack Obama, as president, should govern the way he campaigned for the job: Fired up, with an unswerving focus on changing the status quo (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Windows only: System cleaning utility Moo0 DiskCleaner's dead-simple interface makes short work of clearing out all those unwanted temporary files, cookies, browser history, and MRU lists. Once you've installed and launched t (Read More)
Valleywag:
You may not have known you wanted it, but now you're going to get it. 3D redux is here with its biggest tentpole to date, Disney's $180 million Christmas Carol, followed shortly after by the release of James Cameron's Avatar. (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Blue Dogs afraid to vote yes on a popular healthcare reform bill, take note. Your newest colleague, from a purple district, is going to make his first vote a significant one. Rep. Bill Owens (D-NY) can be counted on as a "y (Read More)