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sir lancelot saves a damsel in distress (a.k.a. the iphone)
lots of people have been complaining about the reception problems associated with the iphone 4’s reception. seems as though people have isolated the problem to the nifty new antenna design that sits in strips within the stainless steal phone border. steve jobs seems to have taken the lead of bumbling bp chief tony hayward because [...]
live from the edge
rachel maddow will be reporting this week from afghanistan. in an interview with tvnewser she said of the trip “I do think there are questions that need to be asked and answered about the war that are going to benefit from me being there to be telling them. The McChrystal controversy has focused the nation’s [...]
monday morning funnies
we haven’t shown a jon stewart funny in a while. here’s his take on the kagan confirmation hearings.
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south american ingenuity
the drug trade in colombia is alive and kicking–two instances over the past week prove this.
not-so-golden trophy: officials at the airport in bogota happened upon a replica of the world cup trophy that happened to be made out of, you guessed it, cocaine. the found trophy was headed for spain and was 35 cm in [...]
relish the time in the spotlight
here’s another story illustrating the thrill of the competition and the agony of defeat. there was a kerfuffle on coney island yesterday when competitive eating phenom takeru kobayashi was arrested after rushing the stage after the competition he was banned from was completed. kobayashi, or, ‘the tsunami’ as he’s known on competitive eating circles was [...]
they have more restrictions on lindsay lohan
by now you’ve heard of the mr. and mrs. smith like existence of the russian spy ring caught by the f.b.i. this week. the f.b.i. had been following them for years and they’d been living happy suburban lives in virginia, new jersey, new york, and massachusetts. some of them had facebook accounts, many have kids, [...]
they must have been thinking of ‘the nutcracker’
thanks to a tip from my buddy and love anderson cooper, i learned about the bp’s blog from the gulf today. in every way possible, the blog’s reporters take a glass half full reporting approach. my favorite example of this was from a report filed on may 28. in the blog post titled ballet at [...]
