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Three things that don't surprise me

Monday, June 30, 2008 9:50 PM
Three stories showed up today, and none of them should come as a surprise: 1) Today is the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska event ; on this day in 1908, something (either a small asteroid or a small comet) exploded in the air over Siberia. Although it
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Three cool stories

Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:44 PM
Three very cool stories caught my eye today. 1) Researchers have managed to decipher and play back a recording made nearly two decades before Edison's phonograph. The phonautogram was made in France in 1860 and represents the earliest known recording
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Theme of the day: contempt

Thursday, December 13, 2007 8:38 PM
Contempt seems to be a common theme in today's news cycle: Josh Bolten and Karl Rove have been held in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas in the US attorney firing scandal. The White House and the obstructionist Senate Republicans
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Some things that will matter, and some things that won't

Monday, November 26, 2007 10:00 PM
Certain things in the news today probably won't amount to a hill of beans in the long run: Trent Lott resigned abruptly (although the circumstances seem a bit fishy). Bush is having a photo-op with the Israelis and Palestinians in Annapolis. Oprah is
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Electrocuted in the shower, and red-headed Neanderthals

Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:23 PM
I just came across two unrelated BBC stories that, for some reason, seem to go well together. First, there's the story of the British dude electrocuted while on vacation with his girlfriend in Paris : An inquest has heard how a Sussex man was electrocuted
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Some stories from today worth thinking about

Monday, August 20, 2007 9:00 PM
These stories from today's news either struck a chord or struck a nerve with me; I'm not sure which: Americans who've lost their homes due to foreclosure are subject to a huge tax hit by the IRS . The amount of the forgiven debt is considered taxable
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What a strange day for news

Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:58 PM
Man, was today ever a kicker for weird news stories. First, there's an alarming rise of West Nile cases in the US , and an even more alarming rise of dengue fever cases in Indonesia . However, if we ever suffer a large population drop, the world could
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Daily news mashup for Sunday, May 13, 2007

Sunday, May 13, 2007 7:24 PM
The bulk of today's news, compressed into a single paragraph: Happy Mother's Day . Speaking of mothers, Bush visited Jamestown to celebrate its 400th anniversary, but there's no word on whether he said the Queen was there in 1607. More governors are coming
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Daily news mashup for Saturday, May 12, 2007

Saturday, May 12, 2007 4:34 PM
Today's news stories condensed into a single paragraph: Billions in Iraqi oil have gone missing since 2003, Gonzo's Monica problem just got a lot worse, incidents like this prove racism is alive and well, and TWRA is cracking down on drunk boaters . Katrina
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Daily news mashup

Friday, May 11, 2007 6:54 PM
We're inundated with news, from TV, radio, the Web, newspapers, magazines, email, blogs, RSS feeds, and our cell phones. It's just too much to manage. So, to bring a little clarity and order to the miasma, I thought I'd try to summarize the bulk of today's
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