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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Chinese police kill two Uighurs "Two ethnic Uighurs have been shot dead by police in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang province, officials have said. A government statement announced that a third "lawbreaker" had been injured in the incident. The police were trying to prevent the three men attacking another Uighur, […]

This Just In: Mark’s Game is at 9 and 11 at Newman « Pearls Before Swine "I just thought I should tell you because the fat man standing behind me at Starbucks today shouted it so loud into his cell phone that I figured he must have wanted all of you to know. He certainly […]

Gay couple detained by security near Mormon plaza after kiss – USATODAY.com "Matt Aune said he and his partner, Derek Jones, were walking home from a concert nearby on Thursday night, cutting through the plaza near the Salt Lake City Mormon temple. Aune, 28, said he gave Jones, 25, a hug and kiss and that […]

YouTube – Ancilla Tilla strips for Wakker Dier Ad of a model stripping then being gutted by a fisherman to protest live gutting of fish. (tags: model fishing argiculture protest advertising video animalrights) EBay Says It Has No Deal With G.M. – NYTimes.com Really GM this is how you are going to start off, selling […]

MediaPost Publications Facebook Sued For Click Fraud 07/10/2009 "Sports site RootZoo has sued Facebook for click fraud, alleging that the social networking site charged for more clicks than actually occurred. The lawsuit comes several weeks after Facebook users began flooding message boards with complaints about overcharging. " The first of many I'm sure. (tags: facebook […]

BBC NEWS | Technology | TalkTalk drops ad tracking firm "UK internet service provider TalkTalk has pulled the plug on its agreement with online behaviour tracking firm Phorm." Another ISP goes down. (tags: isp internet technology privacy phorm advertising) Fox's Napolitano falsely claimed "[t]here was no testimony whatsoever in court" in GM bankruptcy | Media […]

Coding Horror: Code: It's Trivial "Writing code is trivial. And fun. And something I continue to love doing. But if you really want your code to be successful, you'll stop coding long enough to do all that other, even more trivial stuff around the code that's necessary to make it successful." The code is trivial […]

Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate – Ars Technica "The HTML 5 video element has the potential to liberate streaming Internet video from plugin prison, but a debate over which codec to define in the standard is threatening to derail the effort. Ars takes a close look at the HTML 5 codec controversy and […]

Powell Hits Back at Limbaugh: Calling Sotomayor a 'Reverse Racist' Is 'Nonsense' | PEEK | AlterNet "Powell said Sotomayor is a "gifted" and an "accomplished woman" with "a judicial record that seems to be balanced and tries to follow the law." " Good job Powell. (tags: colinpowell politics satomayor supremecourt racisim rushlimbaugh) Modernizr "Modernizr does […]

mosaic01.jpg (JPEG Image, 4959×3305 pixels) – Scaled (25%) Really cool mosaic photo. (tags: photography) Apple, Acer and…Arrington? – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com "The purpose of the CrunchPad will be very simple: surfing the Web. Turn it on and up comes a browser. It will not have a hard drive or keyboard, though users can plug […]