Late Night: Going There

Source: Firedoglake

There’s every reason to expect the next month or two to be the dullest part of the 2012 presidential race. It doesn’t make much sense for the candidates to make their strongest, sharpest arguments when the public isn’t likely to tune in until the ...
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Source: Penguin Books

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Can ‘Bıg Data' Fix Book Marketing?

Source: Publishers Weekly

Thanks to a new generation of software and computing tools, in the future, book marketing will be determined by data rather than by intuition. If you're a publishing executive and you haven't been reading about Big Data, then you soon will be. Big Dat ...
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Anyone seen Bobby?

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Back in their day, the Teale brothers were like a pop group. "I'm not being funny," Alfie, 72, the eldest, says. "We dressed up. A lot of people loved us." And you can see it now in the sharpness of their suits, the dapper suede shoe ...
Full article at: Guardian Unlimited  More like this  10 hours ago, 6:06pm CDT

White Whale - David Weigel

Source: Foreign Policy

The military wants it. Business wants it. But to get it, they have to get past conservatives who simply don't trust the United Nations -- or, more specifically, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The treaty has spooked them ev ...
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Tips to ease ordeal of buying a home from the bank

Source: Salt Lake Tribune

Want to get a great deal on your next home by buying a short sale or foreclosure? You have plenty of company. Many Utahns who have been sitting on the fence the past several years are stretching their homebuying dollars ...
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Getting Stoned with Barry O: The MSM is Only 4 Years Late on This

Source: American Digest

Pictures from a contact sheet that Time Magazine could only manage to find now. [Yet another confirmation of what utter tools these dying bozos are.] In 1980, when Obama was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles, he was approached by an a ...
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Alda: Fired up about the magic of fire

Source: Newsday

Lately I've spent a lot of time trying to help scientists explain in simple words what it is they do. Why in the world, you might wonder, should a nonscientific person worry about a thing like that? There are two pretty good reasons.For ...
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By jingo, the lingo is quite a mouthful

Source: The Age

LIKE it or not, the new era of FootySpeak has arrived. One may express a preference for the plain-spoken simplicities of yesteryear, and maintain deep-seated suspicion as to whether football commentary jargon merely constitu ...
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