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December 2008
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Official response for Zune 30 Freezing Issue (Zune... →
Early this morning we were alerted by our customers that there was a widespread issue affecting our 2006 model Zune 30GB devices (a large number of which are still actively being used). The technical team jumped on the problem immediately and isolated the issue: a bug in the internal clock driver related to the way the device handles a leap year. The issue should be resolved over the next 24...
FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT DEMOCRATIC LEADERS...
December 31, 2008 FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT DEMOCRATIC LEADERS CALL FOR ACTION BY GOVERNOR SANFORD The Democratic Party leadership in the Fourth Congressional District (Former U.S. Congresswoman Liz Patterson; Greenville Co. Democratic Party Chair Kevin Mertens; Spartanburg Co. Democratic Party Chair Glenn Lindman; and Union Co. Democratic Party Chair Ellis Jenkins) issued the following...
As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor... →
A year-end prediction: Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S.
For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument — that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. — very seriously. Now he’s found an eager ...
Cheney: ‘I Don’t Have Any Idea’ Why People Don’t... →
Only 29 percent of Americans approve of the job Dick Cheney is doing as Vice President. In an interview with his hometown Wyoming newspaper, The Caspar Star-Tribune, Cheney expressed his bewilderment over his low approval numbers:
QUESTION: How do you explain your low approval rating?
CHENEY: I don’t have any idea. I don’t follow the polls.
My experience has been over the years that if you...
RNC Candidate Distributes ‘Barack The Magic Negro’... →
Last year, Rush Limbaugh came under intense criticism for repeatedly airing a parody song called “Barack the Magic Negro” by conservative satirist Paul Shanklin. The song, which dealt with Obama’s popularity amongst white voters, was widely attacked as being racist. Doing an Al Sharpton impersonation, Shanklin sings the song to the tune of “Puff the Magic Dragon.” Limbaugh, however, tried to...
Democracy Now! on Karl Rove's Computer Specialist... →
The December 22, 2008 edition of Democracy Now! has a segment about Mike Connell, the Republican IT Specialist who died in a plane crash last week.
A top Republican internet strategist who was set to testify in a case alleging election tampering in 2004 in Ohio has died in a plane crash. Michael Connell was the chief IT consultant to Karl Rove and created websites for the Bush and McCain...
Saudi court rejects plea to annul 8-year-old... →
The Telegraph reports that a Saudi court won’t allow an 8-year-old girl to divorce her 58-year-old husband. The court in its wisdom ruled that the girl must reach puberty before she can pursue her case.
The divorce plea was filed in August by the girl’s divorced mother with a court at Unayzah, 220 kilometres (135 miles) north of Riyadh just after the marriage contract was signed by the...
Drill, Baby, Drill Get it Now The Sarah Palin 2009... →
Sarah Palin is such a holiday tease, which is why her 2009 calendar is the perfect gift for the repressed Conservative in your life on in the closet. Her calendar is a lot like Henry Brown’s, only it has actual pages, a pre-drilled hole for hanging, and we didn’t pay for it. For $13.59 you can get a personal look at the Vice Presidential candidate, which is a lot less than Hustler is charging....
Michael Connell, the Bush IT expert who has been... →
Bush Insider Who Planned To Tell All Killed In Plane Crash: Non-Profit Demands Full Federal Investigation
Michael Connell, the Bush IT expert who has been directly implicated in the rigging of George Bush’s 2000 and 2004 elections, was killed last night when his single engine plane crashed three miles short of the Akron airport. Velvet Revolution (“VR”), a non-profit that has been ...
Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your... →
High school students in Maryland are using speed cameras to get back at their perceived enemies, and even teachers. The students duplicate the victim’s license plate on glossy paper using a laser printer, tape it over their own plate, then speed past a newly installed speed camera. The victim gets a $40 ticket in the mail days later, without any humans ever having been involved in the...
U.S. Supports Execution of Gays →
U.S. Refuses to Sign Measure On Decriminalization for Gays
Alone among major Western nations, the United States has refused to sign a declaration presented Thursday at the United Nations calling for worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality.
In all, 66 of the U.N.’s 192 member countries signed the nonbinding declaration — which backers called a historic step to push the General...
Karl Rove's Computer guru' Mike Connell dies in... →
In Ohio: ‘Karl Rove’s IT guru’ Mike Connell dies in plane crash.
A top level Republican IT consultant who was set to testify in a case alleging GOP election tampering in Ohio died in a plane crash late Friday night.
Michael Connell — founder of Ohio-based New Media Communications, which created campaign Web sites for George W. Bush and John McCain — died...
The AMA announces the top 100 Americana albums of... →
As publications all over the print and web world count down their favorite albums of the year, the Americana Music Association (AMA) has announced their Top 100 albums of 2008, in terms of Americana radio airplay. The list’s ten most played albums are as follows: 1. Hayes Carll - Trouble in Mind 2. James McMurtry - Just Us Kids 3. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand 4. Steve...
Researchers Test Whether Sharks Enjoy Christmas... →
Scientists plan to test whether sharks enjoy listening to Christmas pop songs, after US research showed fish could recognize melody. Chris Brown, senior marine biologist at the Loch Lomond aquarium, said seasonal music would be played through walkthrough underwater tunnels where they can be heard by dozens of nurse sharks, black-tip reef sharks, and ray species. Experts will then monitor the...
Who Wants To Buy A Shuttle?
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This would make a nice lawn decoration: NASA looks for places to display retired space shuttles.
If your organization has the right stuff, it could display one of the U.S. shuttles that NASA plans to retire from service in 2010.
The space agency sent a notice this week to museums, schools and similar institutions to gauge their interest and qualifications for properly housing ...
Iowa city uses garlic salt to melt snow and ice →
No, it’s not Pizza Street — but it smelled like it. Road crews in a Des Moines, Iowa, suburb used garlic salt to melt snow and ice after a storm this week. The spicy road treatment was donated by Tone Brothers, a company headquartered in the area. The spice company says the nine tons of garlic salt would have ended up in a landfill. Public Works Administrator Al Olson the says the...
Bury Me With My iPod, Please… Cell Phone, Too →
US FUNERAL DIRECTORS have noticed that there is a sudden demand among Apple fanboys to be buried with their favourite gadgets when they croak.
Noelle Potvin, family service counsellor for funeral home Hollywood Forever, said that it is also becoming a trend with BlackBerrys and one bloke even wanted to be buried with his GameBoy.
Ed Defort, publisher and editorial director for American Funeral...
Olbermann: 'The president is just full of crap' →
As George W. Bush prepares to leave office, he and his staff appear to be attempting to rewrite history to cast him in a more favorable light — but it seems that history may have the last laugh. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann featured three examples of “Revision-gate” on his program Tuesday, starting with Press Secretary Dana Perino’s insistence that, rather than Americans...
Mark Sanford: "Screw Your Tired, Your Poor, Your... →
If Emma Lazurus were to pen an ode to South Carolina’s Ungovernor, there could be no more apt title than “The New Collosal Ass.”
Taking his Hooverian economic philosophy even further, Sanford now is refusing to apply for a federal loan to keep the state’s Employment Security Commission from going broke.
Sanford’s stubborn refusal to recognize that government might...
Oops! McCain Camp Sells Loaded BlackBerry →
Want to call John McCain’s friends? Should’ve bought one of the 10 BlackBerry smart phones the Republican nominee’s campaign sold off recently to recoup some costs.
An Arlington, Va.-based Fox 5 investigative team this week said they bought a Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry from the McCain-Palin camp containing a plethora of confidential campaign information including phone...
The Single BEST Article About The Economy - Joseph... →
Paste and copy this link in all those emails you’re getting from your right wing Uncle saying it was ALL poor people…& Fannie & Freddie’s fault.
Read it here
MUST READ: Transcript Leaked: Rahm & Blago (wow!) →
FBI File #9536B Wiretap on line 312-XXX-XXXX November 10th, 2008 12:42 PM Eastern Time Rush transcript:
RAHM EMANUEL: This is Rahm.
ROD BLAGOJEVICH: Hey Rahm, yeah it’s Rod.
EMANUEL: Uh-huh. What’s going on governor, I’m busy.
BLAGO: Well, it’s about that Senate appointment…
EMANUEL: We already gave you the list of people we like.
BLAGO: Yeah, I been...
Eight years ago today Al Gore conceded the... →
“The most important election of our time!”
How often did we hear that phrase this year? Hyperbole is part of the rhetoric of politics, but history has a way of validating – or deflating – it. Eight years ago today Vice President Al Gore conceded the presidency to Gov. George W. Bush. If any contemporary election deserves the moniker, it’s that one. The loser became a Nobel laureate. The winner?...
GOP: "Action Alert - Auto Bailout" →
Countdown has obtained a memo entitled “Action Alert - Auto Bailout,” and sent Wednesday at 9:12am, to Senate Republicans. The names of the sender(s) and recipient(s) have been redacted in the copy Countdown obtained. The Los Angeles Times reported that it was circulated among Senate Republicans. The brief memo outlines internal political strategy on the bailout, including the view...
Judge Rules Against 'I Believe' License Plates →
A federal judge says South Carolina must stop marketing and making licenses plates that feature the image of a cross and the words “I Believe.“ A federal judge issued a temporary injunction during a court hearing Thursday after opponents said the plates violate the separation of church and state. U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie said the case needs to be heard in court. In the...
Developer for George W. Bush library Web site paid... →
After losing a valuable piece of online real estate to enterprising cyber-squatters, the Bush presidential library has replanted its flag into that e-territory.
But the squatters – a North Carolina Web development company called Illuminati Karate – had the last laugh, making a huge profit off an embarrassing oversight by the GOP-connected company charged with overseeing the Web site for the...
Republicans Bring Socialism to America →
Let the record show that it was George W. Bush, the rich Texas Republican, who brought socialism to America, so don’t blame it on that African-American Chicago Democrat community organizer who made it into the White House. The government takeover of the banking and automobile industries not only happened on President Bush’s watch, it was also the deregulatory mania of this president’s family,...
Indiana Bans Driver's License Smiles, For Security →
According to a recent article, Indiana BMV Communications Director Dennis Rosebrough states that applicants for a new or renewed operator’s license or state identification card will no longer be allowed to smile and say cheese. Apparently new facial recognition software being employed by the state fails to function when the face is distorted by something as innocuous as smiling. Also on the...
Blagojevich illegally offered state help for sale... →
Among the many things Blago just got charged with, this one was kinda interesting:
“Blagojevich and Harris conspired to demand the firing of Chicago Tribune editorial board members responsible for editorials critical of Blagojevich in exchange for state help with the sale of Wrigley Field, the Chicago Cubs baseball stadium owned by Tribune Co.”
John Lennon Died 28 Years Ago Today; a Word to... →
Yoko Ono has kindly emailed Boing Boing this beautiful photograph of her husband, former Beatle John Lennon, who was murdered on this day in 1980. Photographer Allan Tannenbaum took the image on November 26, 1980, just a couple of weeks before Lennon passed away.
“Please share your memories of John here at this website,” Ms. Ono says to Boing Boing readers, and, “WAR IS OVER!...
President-Elect Obama Loves the Internet, Pledges... →
In today’s Change.gov YouTube video, President-Elect Obama sounded off on a few tech ideas that have, frankly, been a long time coming. He notes that the States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption, and lays out his plan to bring networking to all public domains.
Usually, Obama tosses in a mention or two about how important technology is, but today, we really see what he plans to...
For sale: Second-hand MP3s! →
Tired of that new Britney Spears single? A new service called Bopaboo offers the unlikely prospect of selling your MP3s, uploading songs in the same way that you would trade in used CDs.
However, the difference between an MP3 and a used CD is that even after you give it away (or sell it), it’s still on your computer. Create or upload a copy and the original is still there on your desktop.
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Texas man: God told him to hit woman's car at 100... →
The driver of a pickup that struck a woman’s car on San Antonio’s South Side on Friday morning is being evaluated by psychiatrists because he thinks God told him to drive in excess of 100 mph to take the other car off the road, police said.
The bizarre incident that shut down southbound U.S. Highway 281 above the Medina River happened about 7:25 a.m.
“He just said God said she wasn’t...
Genius Marketing: Answer Trivia on Twitter, Win... →
It seems like every day we see a new use for Twitter, some of which can be rather mundane, others of which are actually smart business ideas. Domain registrar NameCheap is executing one of the latter, running a holiday trivia contest where their followers are awarded free domain registrations for correctly answering questions.
Why this is genius: (1) it gets tons of people to follow NameCheap on...
One Restaurant's Creative Response to the Economic... →
Swallow, a Philadelphia BYOB, relaunched their menu today and their new offers are specifically designed to take the current economic downturn in mind. They’ve ditched their previous modern Italian menu and have replaced it with an entire menu of macaroni and cheese. The menu allows you to design your own entree. You first pick small (base price $5) or large ($7) dish and then determine...
Against All Odds: Dabo Swinney →
Dabo Swinney remembers climbing from his bedroom window and onto the roof as a child, trying to escape the venom and violence that accompanied his father’s heavy drinking.
TI FileA young Dabo Swinney grew up idolizing legendary Alabama head coach Bear Bryant.
He can remember going without lunch money as a 12-year-old and sleeping on the floor of a friend’s house as a senior in high...