So the president is talking to the pope…


after a speech by the latter. He tells him:
Thank you your Holiness, awesome speech.
How presidential.
Via The Economist’s American-politics blog.

I wonder…


Real tough question, that.
Source: Roderick Long, via LewRockwell.com Blog.

Amazon Handing out $50 to HD-DVD Buyers

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Amazon has announced it, like other retailers such as Best Buy, will be handing out $50 gift-certificates voluntarily to purchasers of HD DVD players before February 23rd 2008 in response to Toshiba’s abandonment of the format back in February.

US Emergency Text Message System in the Works

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via BetaNews
The FCC has begun the process of establishing a nationwide emergency SMS alert system, laying down the foundations yesterday of technical standards that participating cell phone carriers must observe.
The system is currently planned to be in place sometime around 2010.

AMD to lay off employees

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“Industry insiders have suggested that the cuts are mainly about poor performance relative to competitors, and do not imply a broader tech weakening,” said The Economist.
Several analysts said that A.M.D., based in Sunnyvale, Calif., was facing problems largely because of a resurgent Intel, the world’s largest chip maker. A.M.D. lost market share to Intel last [...]

“Rock Band” Slams the UK Gamer’s Wallet

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Via Games Asylum
Rock Band is a rather awesome game where you mimic being in an actual band by “playing” various “instruments” (because everyone knows strings are just a myth, it’s all wires and buttons, baby) It’s quite the uber hit in the US and has sold over one and a half million units. (Now if [...]

Aborted Children can save Rats from Parkinson’s!

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All the more reason to send the national guard to beat down those “Anti-Abortionist” protesters. Scientists have recently conducted an experiment that used stem cells to alleviate symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in rats.
The team, which was made up by scientists from MIT and Harvard, has transplanted healthy neurons cultivated from reprogrammed stem cells into the [...]

Your Child is Fat

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…because you let him watch TV and eat cake.
Recent studies by some people that probably think they’re pretty smart show that the more your child watches TV and less they sleep, the more the chance they have of being overweight. This is why I barely watch TV and stay up on my computer until 2AM [...]

The Colbert bump is proven!

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James Fowler, of the University of California San Diego, has written a paper demonstrating that Democratic candidates who appear on the Colbert Report’s “Better Know a District” receive a statistically significant increase in donations over the next 30 days.
Abstract:
Stephen Colbert, the host of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, claims that politicians who appear on his [...]

ONN: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories ‘Ridiculous,’ Al Qaeda Says


9/11 Conspiracy Theories ‘Ridiculous,’ Al Qaeda Says
Al Qaeda representative: But it does not follow. Why do they kill 3,000 of their own infidels? [...] Why is [Bush]’s approval rating in al-Haman and why is Osama bin Laden safe in… [hesitates] somewhere.
The Onion is at it again.

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