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iTunes Remote App for Android Looks Fantastic [Android Itunes Remote] (4)
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One of our favorite apps for the iPhone is the iTunes remote, so we're thrilled to see one for Android. Jeff Sharkey says that he reverse engineered the remote protocol from the iPhone and touch and used it to create an iTunes remote for Android (a process he details here). As you can see in the video, it looks amazing and works perfectly in the Android emulator, just like Apple's (in the real thing, you ...
The Great Penguin Rescue (4)
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CNN is reporting a large group of penguins in Brazil got lost heading too far from their usual feeding grounds (according to reports, perhaps due to unusually earm water). 373 penguins were rescued, rehabilitated flown via cargo plane 1,550 miles to the country's southern coast, where a crowd watched the tuxedo's dudes march back into the sea. Nice one, Cuteporter Mary C.
eBay founder factchecks John McCain [We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To] (25)
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Pierre Omidyar, the one-and-only founder of eBay, didn't much appreciate John McCain's tip of the hat in last night's debate to Meg Whitman, eBay's former CEO. "Meg Whitman was CEO of a company which started with 12 people," McCain said, which rather riled Omidyar. Omidyar started the company by himself in September 1995; Whitman joined in March 1998, when the company already had 30 employees.
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Foghornboy said:
Little things affect little people.
Obama spokesman smokes Sean Hannity for putting Anti-Semite on his show to attack Obama with. (2)
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Robert Gibbs, Senator Obama's communication director and senior spokesman called out Sean Hannity for using the likes of Andy Martin as a source that appeared on his own show to attack Obama with. Good for him and that's how it's done. (rough transcript) Gibbs: Let me ask you a question. Are you anti-Semitic? Hannity: Not at all. Gibbs: On your show on Sunday, the show that's named after you, right? The center piece of that ...
Bonus Quote of the Day (1)
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"It's close to an impossible situation. The next guy, whoever he is, will be a one-term president -- if he is lucky." -- Former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, quoted by Howard Fineman, on the challenges facing the next president.
Sidney Wine-Boig, Gus Levy, and Their Successors (2)
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Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal Economist Brad DeLong (80)
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Everyone--well, at least one other person who is not me--seems to be reading Charles Ellis's brand-new history of Goldman Sachs: The Partnership. One of the most bewildering things is how Goldman Sachs as an institution survived both the Goldman Sachs Trading Company and the Penn Central bankruptcy--either of those should have simply caused the firm as an institution to dry up and blow away. Why didn't it? Here is part of the answer. From Charles ...
Sierra Club Helps Promote Pickens Plan On Debate Night (1)
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At 10 PM tonight, the Sierra Club’s Carl Pope and right-wing oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens began a live-streamed chat that had been advertised across the Internet as an “e-rally” in response to the presidential debate. Pickens and Pope previously met in a discussion moderated by Center for American Progress Action Fund president John Podesta, in which the three found common ground on the question of getting off our dependence on oil. Under the banner ...
42% of Households Watched Debate (1)
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Nielsen says the overall rating for last night's presidential debate was 42.1, compared to 34.7 for the first debate. One rating point equals 1% of the total TV audience in a given market.In contrast, the vice presidential debate earned a rating of 45.0.
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kebernet said:
That's gotta be better than superbowl numbers.
Democracy’s Myopia Problem (4)
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I did a post yesterday on Larry Bartels’ observation that in Depression-afflicted countries “the party that happened to be in power when the Depression eased [in the mid-30s] dominated politics for a decade or more thereafter” even though in different countries this meant all kinds of different political parties. A good example of this phenomenon at play is by comparing the United States, where the bursting of a housing bubble and a growing recession is ...
John McCain's New Mortgage Plan Is Worse than I Had Imagined Possibly, Even Given What I Know About John McCain (2)
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Douglas Holtz-Eakin says, this morning: [W]e would in fact be taking the negative equity position and putting it on the taxpayers books instead of putting it on the private lenders books or the homeowners books. We think the balance of risk has shifted to the point where this is the way to go... What does this mean? It means that John McCain wants to give $100 billion of taxpayers' money to America's worst-behaving mortgage financiers. ...
Barack Obama Loses the Nerd Vote (1)
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While pundits are calling last night's debate for Obama, the Senator made a pretty major gaffe that's being largely overlooked... "The same way the computer was originally invented by a bunch of government scientists who were trying to figure out for defense purposes..." ZOMG@!!1 UR DOING IT WRONG!1 The computer was not invented by a bunch of government scientists, U FRIGGIN N00B!!!1 He probably meant to say the Internet, but he didn't say the Internet, ...
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kebernet said:
Again, what he said isn't technically incorrect. It just happens that the government those "government scientists" were working for was the Brittish government.
Native iPhone Apps in Ajax (1)
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In this episode of RIA Weekly, Andre Charland tells us about PhoneGap, the open source framework for writing iPhone applications naively in JavaScript and HTML, that is, Ajax. Soon available on Blackberry and Android too.
Undecideds (1)
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As Stoller suggests, undecided voters are a uniquely weird breed distinct from voters who simply might change their mind at some point. Polls change and the people who switch from one candidate to another aren't undecided, they're just people who have changed their choice for whatever reason. People who wear their undecidedness on their sleeves at this late stage in the campaign are weird, as is the focus on them. These aren't the people that ...
The Torch Is Passed (1)
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ABOVE: Dennis Prager Plays the Hoop-Dee-Doo Polka Why is Doug Feith smiling? Because he is no longer officially the “the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth.” Dennis Prager is: Q: Critics of the war in Iraq argue that prior to the invasion of Iraq, America had never attacked a country that had no plans to attack it. How then do you explain the Korean War? On my radio show, I have asked ...
Bill de hÓra: Magnificent Seven - the value of Atom (2)
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Bill Burke: "For me, the value of Atom haven’t really clicked with me yet. Its just too SOAPy for me. If you look at ATOM, the ATOM protocol, and how people are talking about using it, they’re really using it as an envelope. One of the things that attracted me to REST was that I could focus on the problem at hand and ignore bulky middleware protocols (like SOAP) and lean on HTTP as a ...
Thirty Minutes Before the End of the Debate (2)
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Nobel Prize Blogging: Symmetry Breaking (1)
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Today the 2008 Nobel Prize winners were announced for physics. It was given to three physicists who described something called symmetry breaking. Since most people don't know what symmetry breaking is, but people remember me writing about group theory and symmetry, I've been getting questions about what it means. I don't pretend to completely understand it; or even to mostly understand it. But I mostly understand the very basic idea behind it, and I'll try ...
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Spycat versus Spycat hao abowt spygoggie? picture: dunno source, via our lolcat builder. lol caption: perlcub » Recaption ThisContribute comment
