March 2011
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“I called Sam and asked him if he wanted to come to dinner but he said he had...”
– If Ernest Hemingway used Yelp. Alex Buckey, McSweeney’s.
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Watchmotherjones:
A message broadcast today to Libyan shipping traffic by the crew of a US Air Force EC-130J Hercules aircraft, modified to transmit psychological operations and civil affairs messages to a target population.
(via FMCNL, a Dutch radiocommunications guru who’s monitoring military activity in the Mediterranean.)
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Accusations of a "blood money" payment over... →
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Some new intrigue in the case of Raymond Davis: It’s being broadly reported in a number of news sources that Davis, the CIA operative who shot and killed two men in Pakistan, was essentially bailed out of the charges with U.S. cash. Sources claim that the U.S. government paid somewhere…
I’ll chime in here. I worked for a newspaper in Saudi Arabia back in 2003 and...
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A Glassy Future
In the future we’ll all be wealthy, beautiful and immersed in augmented reality.
Sign me up… I think.
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Germany blocks plans for Libya no-fly zone |... →
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Germany has again blocked Anglo-French plans for the imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya.
Reports from talks held by G8 ministers in Paris said German objections, backed by Russia, meant the communique from the meeting would make no mention of a no-fly zone.
Speaking during the meeting, Germany’s foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, said his country remained “very...
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Blogger Reports Truth, Gets Hit With $60,000 Fine
A Minnesota blogger was fined $60,000 for publishing posts that implicated a community leader in mortgage fraud.
Despite the accuracy of his reporting, a jury awarded the former community leader $35,000 for lost wages and $25,000 for emotional distress.
The blogger, John Hoff, says he will appeal, writing, “The First Amendment itself is under attack, and this blogger will not back down from the...
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