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• 12:08 RT @mandapance: hating contacts right now. Considering going all-glasses-all-the-time or laser surgery. Or just getting a Red Ryder BB Gun. #
• 12:26 @Hannizzle guess you didn't register for the his and her Snuggies after all. #
• 12:33 They're playing Little Joy at work now. Makes up for playing "Informer" two weeks ago. #

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Google has partnered with the New York Times and the Washington Post news organizations to create an experimental type of news page they call “living story”. In a blog post announcing this move, Google says that Living Stories try a non-traditional approach of presenting news: “They unify coverage on a single, dynamic page with a consistent URL. They organize information by developments in the story. They call your attention to changes in the story since you last viewed it so you can easily find the new material. Through a succinct summary of the whole story and regular updates, they offer a different online approach to balancing the overview with depth and context.”

What does the article aggregation page feature? One page, for instance, is titled “The Politics of Global Warming”. On it we can find interacting elements such as evolving textual summaries, timelines, audio content, image and video content. Areas can be expanded, while other areas scroll with you. You can sort in a variety of ways, like to restrict the news to quotes, or US news, or by showing the oldest news first. There are widgets like maps showing a person’s location while streaming their audio quote. User comments are available too. Clicking on “Opinion” will list editorials only. Additionally, you can subscribe to email updates for a particular story set.

That’s a lot of variety and room for interaction, though I can’t yet tell if I wouldn’t actually prefer a mostly-text-only overview of the same thing, presenting overviews, quotes, insights, images etc. in the order the journalist (or the editors of Wikipedia collectively presenting a topic) would deem most reasonable... to decide on that I’d have to give this a longer try. Are these many choices empowering, or confusing?

In regards to partnerships, which always creates interesting fields for conflicts of interests, the New York Times is probably the one news organization that Google grants closest insight access for reporting. For instance, Google once allowed a NYT reporter to spend a day with the search quality team, “observing some internal meetings and talking to several top engineers.” The NYT has also employed search engine optimization techniques in the past which were often found to be borderline, even though we didn’t see Google punish them for it (I won’t conclude anything the NYT did was blackhat, because we often don’t know what exactly the Googlebot saw at which point in time; we may want to assume innocent until proven guilty, but we also need to realize that the one most likely to have proof in these and future cases will always be Google Inc). Instead, Google has started to offer more official ways for news organizations to get their content indexed in Google while hiding it to a portion of users through a “First Click Free” policy.

Now, in old Google News, the bias created by any particular news organization is somewhat balanced by presenting a huge variety of news organizations. Google’s new experiment does not have this great source variety. Thus, the bias from the content producer is carried on by the tool maker. Here is a sample of NYT bias alleged by editors of Wikipedia – whether or not you agree with this particular bit, it goes to show that there’s at least grounds for discussion when Google decides to go with a limited set of sources only:

In the build up to the 2003 war the New York Times published a number of stories claiming to prove that Iraq possessed WMD. One story in particular, written by Judith Miller helped persuade the American public that Iraq had WMD: in September 2002 she wrote about an intercepted shipment of aluminum tubes which the NYT said were to be used to develop nuclear material. It is now clear that they could not be used for that purpose. The story was followed up with television appearances by Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice all pointing to the story as part of the basis for taking military action against Iraq. Miller’s sources were introduced to her by Ahmed Chalabi, an Iraqi exile favorable to a U.S. invasion of Iraq. Miller is also listed as a speaker for The Middle East Forum, an organization which openly declared support for an invasion.

From another angle, propaganda and power structures critic Noam Chomsky in an interview once stated:

[T]he elite media are sort of the agenda-setting media. That means The New York Times, The Washington Post, the major television channels, and so on. They set the general framework. Local media more or less adapt to their structure.

And they do this in all sorts of ways: by selection of topics, by distribution of concerns, by emphasis and framing of issues, by filtering of information, by bounding of debate within certain limits. They determine, they select, they shape, they control, they restrict – in order to serve the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society.

The New York Times is certainly the most important newspaper in the United States, and one could argue the most important newspaper in the world. The New York Times plays an enormous role in shaping the perception of the current world on the part of the politically active, educated classes. Also The New York Times has a special role, and I believe its editors probably feel that they bear a heavy burden, in the sense that The New York Times creates history.

That is, history is what appears in The New York Times archives; the place where people will go to find out what happened is The New York Times. Therefore it’s extremely important if history is going to be shaped in an appropriate way, that certain things appear, certain things not appear, certain questions be asked, other questions be ignored, and that issues be framed in a particular fashion. Now in whose interests is history being so shaped? Well, I think that’s not very difficult to answer.

And again, I don’t think it’s important whether we agree with this personal particular view... we just need to realize that these are the types of issues that come up when there’s a limited source set. Google as a content-agnostic “mere toolmaker” needs to answer less questions on editorial guidelines – favoring one news source over another, however, is in itself an editorial decision. Thus we will need to ask new questions aimed at Google, too, like the following: How would a “living story” present the build up to another war?

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Chrome for Linux and Mac

The Google Chrome browser is now also available for Mac (see screenshot above) and Linux. Google in an email some of you received said that there were “73,804 lines of Mac-specific code written”. If you run Mac or Linux, please comment on how you like this one!

Chrome Extensions

Also, Google now released extensions for Chrome. These are little browser add-ons and tools, or speaking in Chrome evolution terms, it’s the discovery of fire: you can now cook meat, look at cave paintings at night, scare away the sabertooth tiger, and accidentally burn your fingers. Installing an extension is easy: just browse the extension gallery, pick an extension you like – such as Google Translate, which translates pages on-click – and hit the install button. After a short download and a security popup you need to approve, the extension will be visible without any restart. Fun! Here’s what the translation widget, for instance, looks like in action – when you click the new button in the top right, a translation toolbar will expand:

If you decide you don’t like an extension, you can click the wrench icon → Extensions, and then select either Disable or Uninstall.

A Chrome promo site

In related news, Google has published a new Flash microsite where you can send “Google Chrome for Christmas” as a digital post card kind of gift, along with personal Chrome theme, message and photo upload. It looks like Google has programmed this with sloppy privacy protection, though: I won’t go into details for now but it’s quickly possible to see some random other people’s messages. Better make sure to not enter or upload anything private in the greeting card.

[Thanks Hebbet and Inferno! First screenshot from Google.]

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• If the y-axis registers around 100%, then the app is, well, sluggish

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It may not be chic, like Ms. Pacman, or been featured in a Seinfeld episode, like Frogger. But Tetris did something in the '80s that made it a hit for the ages: It jumped from computer game consules onto Game Boys (remember those?) and became a portable game that is now, really, everywhere: on your mobile, laptop, iPhone: Wherever you are, there Tetris is.

The completely mesmerizing game goes way beyond a cult following, too: Yahoo! searches in the last 30 days are up over 400% on the old-school hit. Lookups are also big for "play tetris for free," "tetris game for blackberry," and "tetris plug in for tv," to name just three. See, we told you it's everywhere.

To recap: the puzzle video game was developed by a Soviet scientist three decades ago. It involves four-segment pieces that cascade down the screen in different shapes. Your job is to rotate them to create a level line with no gaps. As you move up, the game speeds up until the screen fills up and no more pieces can be added. In short: highly, highly addictive.

Just when you thought nothing more could be said for the game that is everywhere — your watch? your calculator? your MP3 player? probably — a buzzy video from College Humor of the "Tetris God" imagines exactly how the game works. Check it out, game fans.

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99.9% of the actors in Hollywood would have stepped over their own mother to land a role in the "Twilight" saga. But the stars of "New Moon" (aka "Twilight 2") don't want to be known for just one role. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner all have non-vampire-related flicks coming soon to a theater near you -- here's a rundown of what to expect.

Kristen Stewart
The lovely and talented Ms. Stewart has an extremely busy year ahead of her. She'll appear in "The Yellow Handkerchief," an indie drama that features plenty of emoting, alongside William Hurt and Maria Bello. Also on the horizon for the pale beauty: "Welcome to the Rileys," in which she'll work with James Gandolfini. And let us not forget the much-discussed rock pic "The Runaways." In it, Stewart plays rocker Joan Jett and bravely sports a non-ironic mullet. Look for "Handkerchief" to hit theaters in February, and "Rileys" and "Runaways" sometime in 2010. And, of course, there will also be another "Twilight" flick, "Eclipse," next summer. 

Robert Pattinson
The sparkly star of "Twilight" had a smaller role in "New Moon," but that hasn't dimmed his Hollywood prospects. His next big turn will be as a romantic and moody young man in "Remember Me." In the film, the rebellious Pattinson pursues the daughter of a police officer who doesn't like him very much. Throw into the mix a strained relationship with his father (Pierce Brosnan), and audiences can expect a lot of family drama mixed with forbidden romance. Will Pattinson's sizable female fan club buy him in a non-bloodsucking role? His turn as the mustachioed Salvador Dali went over like a lead balloon -- hopefully "Remember Me" will hit the mark.

Taylor Lautner
Lautner's performance as Jacob Black earned him and his abs a legion of female fans. Up next for the up-and-comer: a turn in "Valentine's Day," an ensemble romantic comedy costarring Bradley Cooper, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel, and the grand dame of the genre, Julia Roberts. With so many A-listers, Lautner's fans shouldn't count on their favorite boy-hunk to get too much screen time. Fortunately, they'll get a chance to ogle when Max Steel, a movie based on a popular line of toys, hits theaters in 2011. And, of course, there will be "Eclipse" in 2010. In other words, don't panic, ladies. The ab-fab actor will be back soon enough.

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Thanks to Adam Sandler, many of us know that the Jewish holiday Hanukkah is the "Festival of Lights." But most people don't know why that is, or why Jews eat lots of fried foods over the eight-day-long holiday. So what's the deal with Hanukkah? Here, we explain.

Pancakes for dinner
The back story is this: In Biblical times, after their temple was sacked, the Maccabees were able to keep their altar lit for eight days, even though they only had oil enough for one. So, oil takes center stage of this holiday. That means lots of fried fare. Almost anything fried, goes. Really. Even jelly donuts. (Parents, you don't have to tell the kids that). Laktes, the traditional potato pancakes, are always a crowd pleaser. The flour and potato short stacks are fried up in, you guessed it, lots of oil, and served with sour cream and apple sauce. There are lots of tasty ways to go for the holiday. But searches are sizzling on "latkes," "potato latkes," and "potato latkes recipe."

The spin on the holiday
This holiday comes with its own game — and it's a game of chance. The dreidel is basically a top. Players take turns spinning it and whichever Hebrew letter it lands on is how much loot (pennies or gold-wrapped chocolate coins) you win or lose: None, half, lose all, or win all. If you play, keep in mind that it's really for kids, and yes, you will be taking candy from them if you win. (Also, some of the loot may get consumed during competition. We warned you.) Lookups on the holiday game are topping Search, with queries on "how to play dreidel," "dreidel song," "how to make a dreidel," and "what is a dreidel." 

Get lit
As our favorite Hanukkah song goes: Instead of one day of presents, there are "eight crazy nights." This year, Hanukkah starts sundown on Friday, December 11, and ends Friday, December 18, also at sunset. To mark the eight days of light, you'll see lighting ceremonies with menorahs — a candelabra with nine holders (the ninth is to light the others). Each night one more candle is lit, latkes are consumed, and dreidels are spun. OK, all together now: Happy, happy, happy, happy Hanukkah.

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    Tiger Woods was a rare breed. A phenomenal athlete who delivered consistent record-shattering victories on and off the course with style, grace and integrity.

    In an intense game like golf, Tiger built his reputation by performing under pressure. And like his idol Jack Nicklaus, Tiger transcended from being one of the best athletes ever to being one of the best celebrity brands ever.

    The latest Forbes Celebrity 100 list put Tiger at number five just behind Angelina, Oprah, Madonna and Beyonce. And ahead of Springsteen. Not bad company.

    In sports, Tiger reigns supreme. For the eighth straight year, Tiger was the highest paid athlete in the world and last year was one in which he rarely played golf after being sidelined following knee surgery. In fact, nobody even comes close to the Tiger Megabrand. Tiger out-earns the number two athlete by more than two to one.

    That was then, this is now. The world’s good boy has suddenly gone bad. The guy who seemed to be perfect in every way has been discovered to be a mere mortal like the rest of us. Even worse, he seems to be flawed in some very disagreeable ways.

    No one was as proud of Tiger Woods as his Dad, Earl Woods. In an 1996 Sports Illustrated article, Earl famously referred to his son as the “chosen one” and predicted he would have “the power to impact nations.” Tiger certainly has enormous power but poor Earl must be rolling over in his grave over the news of the past few days.

    Tiger’s fall from grace is a catastrophe we have never seen before because Tiger was a brand we have never seen before. Tiger’s image was so pure, so squeaky clean and so universally appealing that his God-like status, his walking-on-water video and the founding of the First Church of Tiger Woods all seemed so well-deserved.

    Tiger’s universal appeal and lack of negatives made him the perfect pitchman. The big blue-chip brands that were lucky enough to sign Tiger knew he was worth every million they spent because of the trust and image Tiger brought to the table. Brands like Nike, Accenture, Gatorade, Gillette, American Express and Tag Heuer banked on Tiger and that unflappable image. Each of these brands played off Tiger’s image of integrity and performance under pressure.

    Slogans like “Just Do It” for Nike and “Go on a be a Tiger” for Accenture resonated with people in powerful ways. Today they taken on whole new meanings.

    My favorite Accenture headline says “It’s what you do next that counts” and shows Tiger with his ball on the rocks, focused on how to get back on the green. For anybody else, the shot would be impossible.

    This is the perfect metaphor for Tiger today. What done is done. You can’t change the past or your last shot; you can only focus on what to do next.

    The world is waiting to see exactly what Tiger does next. What he does next is what counts and what will determine his future.

    Keeping his endorsements isn’t really a concern. Companies like Nike, Gatorade and Accenture are so tightly tied up with Tiger they are unlikely to cut him loose unless he goes out and kills somebody. In addition, Tiger’s sponsors are heavily male-oriented brands, so Tiger’s new ladies’ man image isn’t likely to hurt him much. Married, middle age women were never the target market when it came to Tiger’s sponsors anyway. Tiger is unlikely to gain any new sponsors, but he is making so much money now he doesn’t need more sponsors.

    Keeping his wife is definitely a concern. Tiger could buy a “Kobe Special” (in reference to the $4 million ring Kobe Bryant gave his wife) and refocus and rededicate himself to her. Or Tiger could do an A-Rod and divorce his wife and start hitting the Hollywood scene. (A-Rod has been linked to stars such as Madonna and Kate Hudson.) What will not work well for Tiger and his brand is an uncertain situation and the continued tabloid storylines of ups and downs with his wife. He is better off deciding right now to stay or go right now. Or maybe his wife and her nine-iron will make the decision for him.

    Keeping his fans is a big concern. Tiger used to be a universally likeable entity. Things everybody loves? Puppies, apple pie and Tiger.

    Today, Tiger has become extremely polarizing. Topics to avoid at your next cocktail party? Religion, politics and Tiger.

    Oddly enough, the business of golf stands to benefit from all this hoopla. The next tournament and the next PGA championship Tiger plays in will likely garner very high ratings. Everyone wants to see exactly how Tiger will perform under the extreme pressure.

    And just like the Accenture ad says, it is what you do next that counts. If Tiger can win, keep his cool and reconnect with the public everything is likely to be OK. Winning changes everything.

    In 2003, Kobe Bryant was charged by a hotel employee with sexual assault. The case when on for over a year when the changes were dropped after the accuser became unwilling to testify.  The accuser eventually settled a civil suit with Kobe out of court. With his wife at his side, Kobe admitted in a press conference to an adulterous encounter with the young lady. Sponsors like McDonald’s quickly dumped Kobe and others like Nike and Sprite put him on the back burner.

    Today, Kobe is a leading sports and celebrity superstar. He ranks as #3 in the world in athlete earnings with $45 million a year in earnings, a rank he shares with Michael Jordan. Kobe has come out with the fourth edition of his signature sneaker line with Nike the Zoom Kobe IV. And he continues his relationship with Cola-Cola however Kobe has been moved from the Sprite brand to the hipper VitaminWater brand.

    What won over his fans and corporate sponsors? The $4 million ring he gave his wife? Forget it. It was his success on the court that turned it around for Kobe. After Shaq left the Lakers in 2004, Kobe became the cornerstone of the team franchise. He led the NBA in scoring in the 2005-06, and the 2006-07 seasons. In 2008 he won a gold medal at the summer Olympics. He won his fourth NBA championship in 2009 as well as the finals MVP award.

    Alex Rodriguez was tabloid fodder plagued by steroid rumors, a nasty divorce and poor playoff performances. But all the negatives seemed to be old news after the Yankees finally won a World Series with A-Rod this Fall.

    A lot of damage, ill will and misdoings can be corrected by excellence on the playing field. If Tiger takes a championship or two in grand style in 2010, we might look back on all this as a minor blip. An incident that brought depth, grit and humility to Tiger.

    If Tiger takes another wrong turn and underperforms on the greens, we might look back at him with the same disbelief and disgust as one views Lindsey Lohan.

    It is what you do next that counts Tiger. Go on be a Tiger. Believe it or not, people want you to win.

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“You In?” program encourages acts of good during the holiday season

Bob Hope once said, “If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”

Truer words were seldom spoken. At Yahoo!, we strive not only to not be evil, we want to do a little good. That’s why, during this year’s season of sharing, we’ve launched the year-end giving campaign “You In?”.
The campaign, designed to send a cascade of kindness throughout the Yahooniverse and beyond, is an extension of our Yahoo! for Good Purple Acts of Kindness program, and aims to encourage you, the most valuable part of our global community of 600 million, to give back a little of your good fortune through random acts of kindness—and encourages others to do the same.

And without necessarily spending a dime.

Here’s how it works. First, go to kindness.yahoo.com and enter your random act of kindness. You might have dropped off a raincoat at a homeless shelter, or donated a sawbuck to fight breast cancer, or sent a holiday greeting card to a disabled veteran, or simply just remembered to say “happy holidays” to the bus driver. You get the idea.

Once you’ve submitted your act, it will automatically appear on your Yahoo! Status and can be shared on your Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace pages. It will also be displayed on an interactive global map on the campaign’s website at kindness.yahoo.com.

For example, your post might say, “I just helped an elderly person with a walker cross the street. You In?” and provide a link so others can join in and share their own acts of kindness.

So get in, give well and ask others, “You In?” It’s a great way to give Scrooge the what-for during a tough season. To get you in the mood, here are a few more quotes from the great and good:

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”—Mark Twain

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”—Seneca

“The more sympathy you give, the less you need.”—Malcolm S. Forbes

—The Team

(Special thanks to Quote Garden for the inspiring words above; image courtesy Ed Youdon via Flickr, CC 2.0)

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Buick has been in the news of late, with the launch of the 2010 LaCrosse and last week’s unveil of the 2011 Buick Regal at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Buick GMC’s new General Manager Michael Richards will host a one-hour Webchat discussion tomorrow, Dec. 9 at 1 p.m. EST about the Regal and the future of Buick. Mike is looking forward to hearing your comments and answering your questions. - Dayna Hart, Group Manager, Buick GMC Communications

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Google launches Chrome Web Browser for Mac

I just installed it. Seems to be very light and airy. Will follow-up with other details soon.

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Googling Popeye Today

Google is sporting one of my favorite cartoon characters today Popeye, to honor creator E.C Segar’s birthday.

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Our top picks from the day's hottest searches.

1. Victoria Beckham (Searches increased by 2,275%). Fashion crime: Two armed theives staged a daring heist of a delivery van filled with the celeb's dresses.
2. Max Baucus (+759%). Critics say the Montana senator is distracting his work on health care reform with news that he nominated his girlfriend for the U.S. Attorney job.
3. U.S. Mint coins (+303%). Collectors, act fast: The 2009 Platinum Eagle Proof coin is almost sold out.
4. Gap casting call (+213%).The clothing company has whittled down their contest to 20 cute kids. You can vote for your favorite through Dec. 21.
5. Amanda Knox latest news (+156%). The American foreign-exchange student convicted of murdering her roommate in Italy is appealing her 26-year sentence: The U.S. will provide consular support.

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Google's real time search integration, announced at Web 2 in October, is rolling out (good coverage from SEL). It'll be integrated as "Latest results." I'll be watching how this effects the traffic referral ecosystem across the web - that's the key. Will Twitter grow? Will Google start to obviate some refers it's now sending to Facebook? Or will the opposite occur?

Google's announcement is here. NYT coverage is here.

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Google has launched a "Favorite Places" program to jumpstart its local search business. I like the moxy, but the ecosystem is lacking a clear dose of "Why Should I Do This," at least from the point of view of the business. Or the customer, for that matter. The program has the same "Church lady dancing to rap" feeling that marks nearly all of Google's socially-driven products.  

If Google is serious about this space, they best buy Foursquare, pronto, and let the folks there take over.

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Matt Stratton posted a photo:

http://youtube.com/?v=L44EmJhz9Bs

Author: TrinityMacPhisto
Keywords: Eddie Izzard stand up
Added: December 7, 2009

http://youtube.com/?v=IAb7dslaQDE

Author: TrinityMacPhisto
Keywords: Eddie Izzard stand up
Added: December 7, 2009

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-december-7-2009/american-idle?xrs=rss_tdsvids