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June 24, 2008 News and Trends

Court's two rulings are good news for Bush administration - Minneapolis Star Tribune


Court's two rulings are good news for Bush administration
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 7 hours ago
The high court said it won't stand in the way as the US extends its security fence along the border with Mexico. In a second case mixing national security ...


A Pair of VLC Icons

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:05:51 PDT
VLC has long had the oddest choice of icon. It’s a traffic cone, something that I suppose references to the fact that originally VLC was used to stream video around a network. The fact that it has usurped Quicktime as the most versatile media playing app has not been reflected in its icon choice. So, the task falls on the many talented icon designers out there to take this little traffic cone and make it into something a bit more interesting. Sunday saw the release of two very different appr

KHOU doesn't know pro wrestling is fake

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:18:16 PDT
Houston's CBS affiliate published this story about Vince McMahon's "freak accident" (a planned stunt from last night's episode of WWE Monday Night Raw), quoting a WWE press release. I commented on their story pointing out it wasn't legit, but my comment was deleted from their site. Maybe I shouldn't have equated them with the Weekly World News...

Acceptance, not dominance, for Google News (International Herald Tribune)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:28:25 PDT
While news organizations worry about what Google is doing to their business, the company is far from achieving the kind of dominant position in news that it has in other areas.

Google Trends adds website traffic data (e-Consultancy)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:34:35 PDT
Google Trends is now competing directly with services such as Alexa and Compete, by allowing users to look at trends by website address.

Three To See - National Post


Three To See
National Post, Canada - Jun 23, 2008
(CBC Newsworld, 10 pm) 2 Taken, Leslie Bohem and Steven Spielberg's sprawling 10-part generational miniseries about three families' encounters with ...


SME Times - Business News,World Business,Indian Economy News

Mon, 05 May 2008 21:02:34 PDT
SME Times Gives you the information related with indian economy, indian industry news and world business news.

Floridians’ Tax Dollars at Work Fighting Smut

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:12:18 PDT
Ars reports on an important case down in Florida: The defense against the obscenity charges will focus, in part, on the suggestion that interest in group sex fails the community standards test. Google search trends will be used to demonstrate that, except for brief periods near Thanksgiving, searches for “orgy” consistently outrank attempts to find information about “apple pie” in Florida . The rest of the year, orgy searches are closer in frequency to what might be expected to be a common act


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