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Surprising facts about sarah palin

earthchanges — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:41:27 +0000

David Letterman Slams John McCain Again for Canceling Interview

David Letterman berated John McCain for the second night on Thursday after the Republican presidential nominee canceled his scheduled appearance on The Late Show on Wednesday.

“Now I’m feeling like an ugly date,” Letterman said Thursday. “I feel used. I feel cheap. I feel sullied.”

The McCain campaign said the senator backed out to focus on the economic crisis and the bailout legislation, but on Wednesday Letterman showed a clip of McCain having makeup applied before an interview with Katie Couric that was occurring as he was taping his monologue (Watch above, at 7 minutes in).

“We deeply regret offending Mr. Letterman, but our candidate’s priority at this moment is to focus on this crisis,” McCain spokeswoman Nicolle Wallace said on Today Thursday. “[We] felt this wasn’t a night for comedy.”

On Thursday, Letterman told the audience, “You’re here on a good night. So far none of our guests have canceled.”

Over a clip of David Blaine hanging upside-down in NYC’s Central Park, Letterman remarked: “It’s the same thing McCain did to me last night.”

The Late Show’s Top 10 list was “surprising facts about Sarah Palin.” Among them: she “sometimes calls John McCain grandpa.”

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Letterman also jabbed McCain while interviewing Paris Hilton.

“You had a little run-in with him, too, didn’t you?” he said, referring to the campaign’s use of her image in an ad attacking Barack Obama for his “celebrity” persona and her rebuttal.

See photos of John McCain on the campaign trail.

The first debate between McCain and Obama is scheduled for tonight.

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earthchanges — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:56:14 +0000

Converting APR to APY, What’s The Difference?

if you’ve always seen any attention rates, chances are you’ve seen the tandem of apr and apy splashed across brochures, flyers, banners, and computer screens. if you didn’t be sure what the difference was, as i didn’t when i win initially started reading surrounding this shit, i’ll give you the quick exposition. apr stands for annual percentage rate. apy …

OptionARMageddon on the radio Thursday, tune in at WBAL.com

White House, Congress still negotiating bailout
(Reuters)

psyched to be invited onto baltimore’s #1 “news/talk” passenger station, wbal, thursday afternoon at 5:05pm eastern. readers can tune in closed the internet by going to wbal.com and clicking on the harken to end link. (the radio feed doesn’t seem to be optimized for firefox, so you should log in with ie or safari on best quality) i’ll …

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earthchanges — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:57:27 +0000

Front Page: Bush to Meet Candidates, China Launches Space Mission, Civilians Flee Violence in Somalia

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Guitar Praise developer would consider a Christian-friendly GTA

Here’s something you don’t see every day. MTV posted an interview with Tom Bean, the CEO of Digital Praise. It’s a developer dedicated to making christian-themed versions of popular games. So far, their catalog consists of titles like the DDR clone Dance Praise and the recently released Guitar Praise, but there’s a possibility that they could venture into GTA territory.

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When asked if the company would open to the idea of developing a GTA-style game without all the negative aspects people identify the series by, Bean had the following to say:

“There are a number of games that are out in the marketplace, and some of them have been derided for their content as being inappropriate for kids or inappropriate in general. And the thing that people don’t readily recognize is that some of these games are popular and are successful because they’re really fun; people have sometimes gotten distracted from the fun of a game by some of the content that’s in it.”

He goes on to state that, while they don’t have anything currently in development, they have been looking at open-world designs and trying to determine if they can make a fun game that is both fun and positive using that framework.

Apart from how thrilled I am to hear someone in the Christian community admit that the games are fun despite their content, his comments raise an interesting question. It’s no secret that much of the appeal from Grand Theft Auto comes from the freedom you have to be as bad as you want to be. But would it be possible to create a sandbox game that lacks those elements and still have broad enough appeal to justify the expense of developing it?

I’d really like to see someone try.

[Via MTV Multiplayer]

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Lipstick jungle season 2

earthchanges — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:14:49 +0000

tvTonight - Friday and Saturday, September 26 & 27

Friday September 26

‘Tis Presidential Debate Night so the networks will be devoting time to that. ABC will so have a 20/20, CBS should have a repeat of The Mentalist, CW is Friday Night Smackdown, FOX has a new Are You Smarter Than a Fifthgrader, and NBC has a new America’s Toughest Jobs (Bullfighting as opposed to the bullsh**ing the debates will give us.)

Saturday September 27

ABC - Football or Local Programming CBS - CSI:Miami (8pm, repeat) and Criminal Minds (9pm, Repeat), with a 48 Hours Mystery at 10. CW - Local Programming Fox - Cops (8 and 8:30) and America’s Most Wanted (9pm) NBC - Heroes Season Premier encore and Law & Order: SVU encore (season premiers, both.)

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earthchanges — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:54:51 +0000

George Won’t Guest Star on ‘E.R.’

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here’s one rumor that won’t be revived again — george clooney tells “extra” that new reports of a guest advent on “e.r.” are d.o.a. “i’ve never been asked or approached by anyone from the show about doing an episode of ‘e.r.’,” he told us today. clooney, 47, has been dogged by rumors that he’d reprise his role on the theatrical piece that made him a household name. in may, he battled the whispers, potent “extra,” “the truth of the matter is they wouldn’t implore, and there really would be no reason for it.” clooney fist “e.r” in 2000.

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earthchanges — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:56:00 +0000

Google Android + T-Mobile G1 Coverage

Section: Features

Google Android and the T-Mobile G1 were announced earlier today, but that doesn’t mean our coverage has stopped. Check out the rest of our Google Android coverage here.

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Bailout

earthchanges — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:54:39 +0000

Moody’s downgrades WaMu to its lowest rating

moody’s investors services downgraded washington mutual bank’s “financial strrength” rating to an e — their lowest grade — noting that even with the proposed $700 billion federal bailout of monetary institutions, the nation’s largest thrift stands to lose enough money to undermine its capital secure. “we imagine wamu’s capital is insufficient to absorb its mortgage losses,” …

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earthchanges — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:45:54 +0000

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earthchanges — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:05:47 +0000

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September 15

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earthchanges — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:39:45 +0000

Microsoft hails open source outreach

Microsoft continued to make its case on Tuesday that it is a friend to open source, listing a number of efforts it has undertaken in spaces ranging from Linux to virtualization and rich Internet application technology.

Traditionally, Microsoft has been viewed as the commercial counterpoint to the open-source movement. But the company’s presentation on Tuesday at the ZendCon 2008 conference in Santa, Clara, Calif. reiterated accommodations for open source

“We are trying to drive interoperability and integration with open source into the Windows platform by design,” said Tom Hanrahan, director of the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center.

This center, he said, is composed of engineers from Linux and the open-source world hired by Microsoft to better understand how to cooperate and collaborate with the open-source community. The center features both an open-source software lab, to research how open-source software can run on Microsoft products, as well as a Microsoft-Novell interoperability lab.

Microsoft works closely with Novell on identity management and on translators for the OpenOffice and Microsoft Office office suites, he said. Also, Microsoft has assisted with a Novell-backed effort to produce a Linux implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight rich Internet application technology, dubbed Moonlight, Hanrahan said.

(The two companies also recently extended an interoperability arrangement pertaining to Windows and Novell’s Suse Linux.)

Other Microsoft open-source efforts have included testing between Windows and Samba open-source file and print services technology. Collaboration with the PHP community also has taken place, Hanrahan said. Future projects under discussion with the PHP community could include more database and application support

Microsoft’s business strategy involves supporting open-source software on Windows. Interoperability between Windows and open source is being done at a product level and through use of networking standards that allow for interoperability. Data interoperability also is offered.

Work with open-source communities also was cited. The company recently became a Platinum-level sponsor of the Apache community and made available a C# plugin for Eclipse, Hanrahan noted.

Microsoft also has made protocols available to the open-source community, such as its VHD format for virtualization, Hanrahan said. Anyone can access and share the data without licensing requirements, he said. The company also wants to make sure that Linux performs well as a guest on Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform, said Hanrahan.

There also is a MySQL database plugin to the Microsoft Visual Studio development platform.

A conference attendee held out hope for Microsoft’s commitment to open source. “I’m hoping that they get more serious about open source so that way, it’s easier for me to use PHP in the enterprise environment that we already have,” said Michael Kierstad, database administrator at forwarding and logistics services provider Panalpina. The company uses PHP on Windows with Microsoft’s SQL Server database, Kierstad said.

Hanrahan also cited other developments, such as provision of a downloadable plugin for Windows Media content to run on the Firefox browser and work with the Java, PHP, and Ruby communities to provide APIs for Microsoft CardSpace authentication capabilities.

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