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Kickstarter Expects To Provide More Funding To The Arts Than NEA (Carl Franzen/TPM Idea Lab)

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:30:11 +0000

Carl Franzen / TPM Idea Lab:
Kickstarter Expects To Provide More Funding To The Arts Than NEA — NEW YORK — Kickstarter is having an amazing year, even by the standards of other white hot Web startup companies, and more is yet to come. — One of the company's three co-founders, Yancey Strickler …

Flickr disables Pinterest pins on all copyrighted images (exclusive) (Jennifer Van Grove/VentureBeat)

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:25:02 +0000

Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:
Flickr disables Pinterest pins on all copyrighted images (exclusive) — As the third most popular source of content on digital pin-board site Pinterest, Flickr and its photographers are subject to frequent acts of copyright infringement. But a site-wide update to Flickr promises to better protect members and their copyrighted works.

Should All Web Traffic Be Encrypted? (Jeff Atwood/Coding Horror)

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:40:01 +0000

Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Should All Web Traffic Be Encrypted? — The prevalence of free, open WiFi has made it rather easy for a WiFi eavesdropper to steal your identity cookie for the websites you visit while you're connected to that WiFi access point. This is something I talked about in Breaking the Web's Cookie Jar.

David Pogue Is Only Competent To Review Gadgets (Mike Daisey)

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:55:05 +0000

Mike Daisey:
David Pogue Is Only Competent To Review Gadgets — David Pogue weighed in yesterday about the Nightline piece. — I have been trying to engage with Mr. Pogue, but it hasn't gone well. — I hate to take the gloves off, but I feel like there's little choice after this latest column.

What Cameras Inside Foxconn Found (David Pogue/Pogue's Posts)

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:50:02 +0000

David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
What Cameras Inside Foxconn Found — I wrote about the Apple/China/Foxconn controversy in this space a couple of weeks ago, but there have been some developments, some progress and some new revelations. — The story so far: Last month, The New York Times published a front-page article …

Sony Music Boss: Censored YouTube Videos Cost Us Millions (Ernesto/TorrentFreak)

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:15:13 +0000

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Sony Music Boss: Censored YouTube Videos Cost Us Millions — For years the music industry has blamed Internet piracy for all their troubles. — Slowly, however, the record labels are starting to realize that the Internet is the future and it will ultimately do more good than harm.

Judge awards iPhone user $850 in throttling case (Peter Svensson/Associated Press)

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:40:01 +0000

Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Judge awards iPhone user $850 in throttling case — SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — When AT&T started slowing down the data service for his iPhone, Matt Spaccarelli, an unemployed truck driver and student, took the country's largest telecommunications company to small claims court. — His award: $850.

CNBC: Sprint board rejects $8b MetroPCS acquisition 'hours' before announcement (Chris Ziegler/The Verge)

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:30:27 +0000

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
CNBC: Sprint board rejects $8b MetroPCS acquisition ‘hours’ before announcement — CNBC is reporting that Sprint and regional carrier MetroPCS were literally hours from announcing an $8 billion merger when Sprint's executive board rejected it — even after it had CEO Dan Hesse's sign-off.

Caterina Fake: Fast Growth for a New Social App Is a Very Bad Thing (Liz Gannes/AllThingsD)

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:15:15 +0000

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Caterina Fake: Fast Growth for a New Social App Is a Very Bad Thing — Social Web entrepreneurs with successful careers just can't seem to find their way to a happy and boring retirement. Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake just announced Pinwheel, joining Ev Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter and now Obvious …

Judge dismisses lawsuit over Google privacy changes (Brendan Sasso/Hillicon Valley)

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:55:00 +0000

Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:
Judge dismisses lawsuit over Google privacy changes — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) that sought to force the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block Google's planned privacy changes. — EPIC argued that Google's privacy changes …

Google Scales Back E-Book Affiliates Program, Drops Some Users (Laura Hazard Owen/mocoNews)

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:35:01 +0000

Laura Hazard Owen / mocoNews:
Google Scales Back E-Book Affiliates Program, Drops Some Users — Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is cutting back on the e-book affiliates program it launched in June. — When Google launched the program, it was available to “retailers, bloggers, book publishers and other website owners.”

Game Closure raises $12M for HTML5 cross-platform games (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:15:13 +0000

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Game Closure raises $12M for HTML5 cross-platform games — Game Closure has raised $12 million in a first round of funding for its HTML5-based cross-platform multiplayer game business, which aims to provide tools to developers that can help them deal with one of their most painful tasks …

TiVo transcoder and IP-based set top box coming 'by the end of summer' (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:01:10 +0000

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
TiVo transcoder and IP-based set top box coming ‘by the end of summer’ — Nestled within TiVo's surprisingly decent fourth quarter results was a statement from CEO Tom Rogers, who said that “By the end of the summer, we'll further that lead with the addition of the four-stream transcoder and an IP-STB.”

We're not paying enough for apps (Rafe Needleman/CNET)

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:45:12 +0000

Rafe Needleman / CNET:
We're not paying enough for apps — Rafe Needleman tries to convince a developer he's charging too much for his utility, ends up convincing himself that a lot of software is underpriced instead. — If the cool automatic monitor and computer location algorithm gets things wrong …

Google Invents an Original Search Gesture for Future Devices (Jack Purcher/Patently Apple)

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:30:24 +0000

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Google Invents an Original Search Gesture for Future Devices — Google has invented an original search based gesture for future Android devices. In some cases, the new “continuous gestures” will allow a user to simply and quickly draw a circle around what they want to search for in the form of the letter …

The Republican Brain: Why Even Educated Conservatives Deny Science -- and Reality

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

AlterNet - By Chris Mooney - Feb. 24 (News Analysis) - I can still remember when I first realized how naïve I was in thinking—hoping—that laying out the “facts” would suffice to change politicized minds, and especially Republican ones. It was a typically wonkish, liberal revelation: One based on statistics and data. Only this time, the data were showing, rather awkwardly, that people ignore data and evidence—and often, knowledge and education only make the problem worse.

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Mutated Trout Raise New Concerns Near Mine Sites

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:19:03 +0000

New York Times - By By LESLIE KAUFMAN - Feb. 23 (News Report) - Selenium, a metal byproduct of mining that is known to be toxic to wildlife, is under review by federal agencies who are re-evaluating safe levels in area creeks.

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Jon Stewart Rips GOP's Obama Fear-Mongering

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - Feb. 23 (Comedy News) - "It appears Barack Obama has failed to keep many of the campaign promises that his opponents made for him," Stewart joked. While the four remaining GOP presidential candidates debated once again in Arizona Wednesday night, Jon Stewart took a look at how

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Stop Keystone pipeline before it's too late

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

CNN - By Ted Turner - Feb. 22 (Opinion) - The purpose of Keystone XL is to bring tar sands crude oil through the United States to Gulf Coast refineries. The route through the United States is actually the oil industry's second choice: Transporting the oil west from Alberta to the Pacific Coast would be shorter and much cheaper, but Canadians concerned about environmental impacts and threats to native people's lands are challenging that route, and with good reason. The existing and potential environmental impacts along the 2,000-mile pipeline route are profound.

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Renewables Are a Reality: How We Can Ditch Fossil Fuels Without Any Help From Congress

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

AlterNet - By Fen Montaigne - Feb. 21 (Special Report) - In an interview with Yale Environment 360 senior editor Fen Montaigne, Lovins discusses how business and society can pull off this transformation even if the U.S. Congress keeps failing to act, why climate change need not even enter the discussion, and why the oil industry will ultimately forego fossil fuels and jump aboard the green bandwagon. “One system is dying and others are struggling to be born,” says Lovins. “It’s a very exciting time.”

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Scientists Urge Reform for a Broken Global System

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

Inter Press Service - Feb. 21 (News) - VANCOUVER, Feb 21, 2012 (IPS) - Unless governments work actively to build a brighter future for humanity, climate change, poverty and loss of biodiversity will worsen and continue to exacerbate existing global problems, top scientists warned ministers at

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Building Sustainable Future Needs More Than Science, Experts Say

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

Inter Press Service - Feb. 19 (News) - VANCOUVER, Feb 19, 2012 (IPS) - Contrary to popular belief, humans have failed to address the earth's worsening emergencies of climate change, species' extinction and resource overconsumption not because of a lack of information, but because of a lack of

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A Conservative Explains Why Right-Wingers Have No Compassion

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

AlterNet - By Mike Lofgren - Feb. 18 (News Analysis) - Who are these people and what motivates them? To answer, one must leave the field of conventional political theory and enter the realm of psychopathology.

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Kenyan chief foils robbery via Twitter

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

CNN - By Faith Karimi - Feb. 18 (News Report) - A Kenyan chief in a town far from the bustling capital foiled a predawn robbery recently using Twitter, highlighting the far-reaching effects of social media in areas that don't have access to the Internet.

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Op-Ed Contributor: Chinese Labor, Cheap No More

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

New York Times - By Michelle Loyalka, New York Times - Feb. 18 (Opinion) - The cheap labor that has made China’s factories nearly unbeatable is not so cheap anymore.

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Will Chevron case take down trade pact investor-state system?

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

citizen.org - Feb. 17 (News Report) - After having lost on the merits in Ecuador and U.S. courts, Chevron has turned to an ad hoc “investor-state” tribunal of three private lawyers to help the company avoid paying to clean up horrific contamination in the Amazonian rainforest.

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Federal Rules to Disclose Fracking Chemicals Could Come With Exceptions

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

nationofchange.org - By Lena Groeger - Feb. 17 (News Report) - Though the BLM's proposed rules are more stringent than most state laws, environmental and health advocates say drillers could circumvent some of the requirements. For instance, the rules would only apply to drilling on federal lands. Also, companies could request that certain chemicals be exempted from disclosure if they are deemed a "trade secret." The trade secret exemptions "could potentially make the rules meaningless if applied broadly,"

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Karma: Heartland Institute 'Shocked' That its Climate Change Lies Are Exposed, After Promoting 'Climategate' Non-Scandal

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

AlterNet - By David Atkins - Feb. 16 (News Report) - The free-market Heartland Institute has moved to contain the damage from explosive revelations about its efforts to discredit climate change and alter the teaching of science in schools, claiming on Wednesday it was the victim of theft and forgery.

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Shocker: Video of live woolly mammoth not entirely authentic (+video)

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

Christian Science Monitor - Feb. 14 - Footage from a Russian filmmaker's personal history project was altered to create a widely discussed – and now thoroughly debunked – sighting of a woolly mammoth. ...

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Iran chokes Internet at politically sensitive time

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:05:00 +0000

Dawn - By Afp - Feb. 13 - The strangulation of the Internet is making life very difficult for many Iranian businesses.—File photo Access to the Internet’s most-used sites and tools is being choked in Iran at a politically charged period, blocking communication channels for local

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Vintage ketch sets sail to launch slow cargo movement - The Guardian

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

The Guardian - Feb. 13 - Vintage ketch sets sail to launch slow cargo movement The Guardian The hope is that, with this symbolic journey, Irene – a lovely wooden ketch built in Somerset in 1907 to transport bricks and tiles – will blaze a trail for wind-powered cargo ships. The project, New Dawn Traders, was hatched by Jamie Pike, ... and ...

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"MyFacts"

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

Doonesbury - By Gary Trudeau - Feb. 12 (Cartoon) - This week, the Doonesbury comic strip takes on "MyFacts", a fictional online service that packages "faux facts" to support anyone's ideology, from creationism to 9/11 conspiracy theories.

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Keystone Pipeline Facts

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

readersupportednews.org - By Robert Redford - Feb. 10 (News Analysis) - 'Joe Nocera's op-ed in the New York Times yesterday deserves a response and a reiteration of the facts surrounding the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. ...Let's put the rhetoric aside, and simply focus on the facts. Nocera wants us to believe that approving this pipeline is a matter of national security. ... The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would not make the United States of America safer. Why? It would not make us safer, because the majority of the processed oil was already scheduled for export to foreign countries. That's right, this Keystone XL pipeline's Canadian tar sands oil would have

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League of Conservation Voters: George Allen Named to Dirty Dozen

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

action.lcv.org - Feb. 10 (Press Release) - Former Virginia Senator George Allen earned an abysmal 1% LCV lifetime score during his time in the Senate. Additionally, Allen has received nearly $500,000 from oil and gas interests. This is Allen's 3rd time on the Dirty Dozen, having been named to the list in 2000 and 2006.

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Asia's highest mountains have lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

The Guardian - By Damian Carrington - Feb. 08 (News Report) - The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows. The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that aro

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What NASA's Blue Marble Photo Reveals About Climate Change

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:39:00 +0000

Mother Jones - By Bill McKibben - Feb. 08 - In fact, it's likely that the week that photo was taken will prove "the driest first week in recorded US history." Indeed, it followed on 2011, which showed the greatest weather extremes in our history—56 percent of the country was either in drought or f

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New beach water rules: Enough to make you sick - latimes.com

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

Los Angeles Times - By Mark Gold - Feb. 07 (Opinion) - ..it's highly unlikely that much will improve.

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"Global Warming Has Stopped"? How to Fool People Using "Cherry-Picked" Climate Data

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

Forbes - By Peter Gleick - Feb. 06 - The current favorite argument of those who argue that climate changes isn?t happening, or a problem, or worth dealing with, is that global warming has stopped. Therefore (they conclude) scientists must be wrong when they say that climate change is caused by humans, worsening, and ultimately a serious environmental problem

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Antarctica’s about to lose a New York City-sized chunk

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:20:00 +0000

Grist - By Jess Zimmerman - Feb. 03 - A NASA photograph of the crack across Pine Island Glacier Normally when icebergs split off from glaciers, it’s called “calving,” but I think it would be fair to say that Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier is about to have a cow. Pine Island Glacier, which

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"Gasland" Director Josh Fox Fires Back at Republicans After His Unfair Arrest

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

AlterNet - By Ed Schultz - Feb. 02 (Interview) - Gasland director Josh Fox, ... was arrested this week, in violation of his first amendment rights, while covering a Congressional hearing on fracking. In the interview, Fox fires back at the Republicans who have been targeting him

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