David Plotz

9 March, 2009
Today’s Tabbloid
PERSONAL NEWS FOR infimate@gmail.com
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Cisco said to be buying Pure Agressiemeldpunt voor

Digital for around $500 million buschauffeurs
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Google’s Revenue Has

Weakened Markedly Over Past
Month
MAR 09, 2009 06:29A.M.
Last week, when Google CEO Eric Schmidt (GOOG) described the
economy as “pretty dire” and said Google was “not immune,” some
analysts argued that Eric’s comments were not new and should not be
taken to mean that Google’s business is deteriorating.
This interpretation seemed like wishful thinking. According to sources,

it was.
Believe us people, popularity pays off. Just ask Pure Digital CEO
Jonathan Kaplan, who is reportedly scrambling for ways to spend $80
The search business has deteriorated markedly this quarter, industry
million of the $500 million Cisco Systems is about to hand over in order
sources say, especially over the past month. A source at Google says the
to acquire the company. Granted, none of this has been confirmed just
company’s revenue has decelerated rapidly over the same period.
yet, but TechCrunch has it that the deal is all but done. Reportedly,
Cisco’s interested in bringing the firm into its portfolio in order to
Wall Street estimates already call for a severe slowdown in Google’s
further push high-bandwidth using services. Obviously, user generated
revenue growth this quarter, from 25% year over year growth in Q4 to
HD video fits pretty perfectly into that agenda. We suspect we’ll be
11% in Q1. Some of the revenue deceleration, therefore, is likely in the
hearing more on the subject as the work week begins in earnest, but it
stock. The revenue weakness has reportedly gotten worse over the past
sure sounds like Linksys is about to get a new cousin.
month, however, so Q2 is likely to be affected more than Q1.
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Wall Street currently expects Google’s revenue growth to stabilize
around 10% for the next three quarters and then accelerate in Q4. Based
Cisco said to be buying Pure Digital for around $500 million originally
on recent trends in the business, we think this, too is wishful thinking.
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Today’s Tabbloid PERSONAL NEWS FOR infimate@gmail.com 9 March, 2009
• Schmidt: Economy ‘Pretty Dire’, Google ‘Not Immune’ (GOOG) THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN
• Google Sucking Wind In Europe, Estimates Cut (GOOG) For The Love Of Writing
MAR 09, 2009 04:52A.M.
• Google Stock Still Dead Money (GOOG)
Kottke points me to this forum by authors talking about getting paid for
writing:
I wouldn’t be the first writer to point out that doing

something so deeply personal does become less jolly when
ESPN.COM you have to keep on at it, day after cash-generating day. To
use a not ridiculous analogy: Sex = nice thing. Sex For Cash =
U.S. crushes Venezuela, makes probably less fun, perhaps morally uncomfy and
psychologically unwise. Sitting alone in a room for hours
WBC 2nd round while essentially talking in your head about people you made
MAR 09, 2009 06:18A.M. up earlier and then writing it down for no one you know does
have many aspects which are not inherently fulfilling.
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Face Of The Day
MAR 09, 2009 05:15A.M. Aliens PS3 case mod is
staggeringly ugly to non-fans
MAR 09, 2009 04:52A.M.
Adding even more credibility to the whole “beauty is in the eye of the
A visitor views the work entitled ‘Red Star Over China Graduate — Xiao beholder” mantra is this... masterpiece / abomination. Inspired by the
Shi’ by Chinese artist Zhang Chenchu at the ‘Extension and Integration: iconic Aliens films, this completely over the top PlayStation 3 case mod is
A Circuit Exhibition In Hubei Of Study on the Modern Chinese Oil about as ridiculous as it gets. We’re not really told how the modder went
Painting.’ at the Hubei Museum of Art on March 8, 2009 in Wuhan of about crafting this lovely interpretation, but we are given a few more
Hubei Province, China. A total of 160 pieces selected from over 4,000 snapshots to gawk at in the read link — which you won’t visit unless you
works are displayed at the exhibition scheduled from February 20 to too are an Aliens freak, but hey, that’s cool.
March 22. By China Photos/Getty Images.
[Thanks, Jeremiah]
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Mimi Switch remote control
relies on facial expression, not
phalanges
THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN MAR 09, 2009 02:47A.M.
Yes, They’re That Dogmatic

MAR 09, 2009 03:14A.M.
In Brazil, a nine-year-old victim of abuse and rape by her step-father got

pregnant with twins. Her mother arranged an abortion for her. The
Vatican has upheld the excommunication of the mother imposed by a
Brazilian bishop. No word on the stepfather. Priorities ...
What Shocks You More?

MAR 09, 2009 03:10A.M.
For some reason, whenever gadgetry and smiling cross paths, things
So, in East Texas, a man survives a horrible attack in which his wife and tend to get a little creepy. Where the smile trainer was mostly a curiosity,
children were all killed by his teenage daughter and three friends. But the Orwellian implications of the Okao Catch technology were a bit much
Rod Dreher focuses on a tiny, incidental aside: — even for the hardened tech blogger. Sure, the Mimi Switch is quite
clever: instead of relying on your fingers, this remote control uses an
The killings aren’t what shocked me about this story. What earbud containing infrared sensors that measure the inner ear
got me was this: This is a tiny East Texas town — and there’s movements resulting from various facial expressions. “An iPod can start
a bisexual culture in one of them, among the teenagers? or stop music when the wearer sticks his tongue out,” says the inventor,
WTF? What do I not get about teenage life these days? What Kazuhiro Taniguchi of Osaka University. Sounds innocent? Not so fast.
do I not get about the cultural air kids breathe? The device can also be used to monitor your facial expressions for the
appropriate levels of cheerfulness. “If it judges that you aren’t smiling
He clarifies later: enough,” the inventor goes on to say, “it may play a cheerful song.” Or if
you’re smiling too much, the thing can be programmed to play some
I’m simply saying that I was more shocked by this tidbit latter-day Depeche Mode. That always bums us out.
about the decadent teenage culture in a tiny Texas town than
I was by the foul crime itself. Filed under: Wearables
This is clinical. Mimi Switch remote control relies on facial expression, not phalanges
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BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL NEWS - CNNMONEY.COM “Look, I wish I had the luxury of just dealing with a modest
recession or just dealing with health care or just dealing with
Summers: Global growth energy or just dealing with Iraq or just dealing with
Afghanistan. I don’t have that luxury, and I don’t think the
coordination needed American people do, either.”
MAR 09, 2009 02:08A.M.
Most Americans understand what this man inherited.
World leaders need to pump more money into the economy in a
coordinated effort to boost demand and pull the world out of recession, He didn’t borrow and spend in a boom, as Bush did. He is borrowing and
the White House’s chief economic adviser said Monday. spending to counter a downturn more pernicious than any in memory.
He isn’t bailing out the banks with an invisible and unaccountable slush-
fund, as Bush did. He’s doing so transparently and bending over
backwards to keep as many banks in private hands (not socialist enough
ESPN.COM for many, even on the right).
Johnson sparks Wake’s Equally, Obama campaigned to end torture and restore basic
constitutional liberties shredded by the Bush administration’s radical
comeback vs. Clemson views of unlimited executive power. But he did not campaign to return
MAR 09, 2009 02:08A.M. the US to pre-9/11 models in all respects. Retaining the option of
rendition may well be necessary, for example:
“There could be situations — and I emphasize ‘could be’
because we haven’t made a determination yet — where, let’s
say that we have a well-known Al Qaeda operative that
THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN doesn’t surface very often, appears in a third country with
whom we don’t have an extradition relationship or would not
Socialism? Please. be willing to prosecute, but we think is a very dangerous
MAR 09, 2009 02:02A.M. person,” he said. “I think we still have to think about how do
we deal with that kind of scenario.”
At some points, his critics on right and left will see the pragmatic,
reasonable path he is trying to forge. In cutting him some slack, the
American people seem wiser to me than many in the commentariat.
(Photo: Saul Loeb/Getty.)
Another Anti-Semite For

I’m a little flummoxed by those expressing shock that Obama is actually Freeman
proposing to do what he campaigned on - on climate change, healthcare, MAR 09, 2009 01:57A.M.
torture, and some income redistribution. He’s always been a pragmatic
liberal - and what makes him so effective a politician is that he has a very Joe Klein:
plausible argument that at this moment in time, greater government
action may be needed in some areas. I think the obvious crisis in So, in sum, a guarded vote for Chas Freeman—not that any
healthcare and the danger signs about our environmental balance are votes will be necessary for this appointive position. It’s time
clear. How we tackle these problems is open to debate - but that we had some candor and intellectual noncomformity, some
government has some role and that reform is needed is obvious. Then abrasiveness in the too-smooth collegiality of the intelligence
this money quote from the NYT interview: bunker. It is also time to resume the relative balance that
existed before George W. Bush gave veto power to Israel’s
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neoconservative supporters over US government policy and ESPN.COM

appointees in the region.
Parker, Spurs send sliding Suns
Read it all. I should add - again - that I don’t share all of Freeman’s
views. But I am glad that his perspective might be thrown into the mix as home winless
the new president re-callibrates the US’s Mid-East policy. I don’t think MAR 09, 2009 12:45A.M.
genuine disagreements about foreign policy should be forced into the
box of identity politics. And I do think a mix of realism and Visit ESPN.com for the complete story.
internationalism is useful in a Democratic administration. In fact, I’m
suspicious of any foreign policy thinker who is only ever in one tradition
or other. I know I’ve long had elements of neoconservatism and realism
in my own approach to foreign policy - and I try to balance them in the ENGADGET
face of a changing world and always-shifting situations.
17-inch MBP fan / overheating
I was initially skeptical of intervention in the Balkans, for example, until
the horror of Serbian genocide came home to me and I could see a issues causing GeForce 9600M
sensible and not-too-risky way of stopping it. I am against intervention
in Darfur and was against the Somalia adventure - because I haven’t to bug out?
been persuaded that the risks outweigh the benefits (on Somalia, I was MAR 09, 2009 12:41A.M.
proven sadly right). I’ve never thought of China as some kind of mortal
enemy to the US, and, although I loathed the Soviet Union, was happy to
make my peace with Russia as a great and un-ideological power. My
neocon apex was in the run-up to the Iraq war, as al Qaeda seemed to
provide real proof of the worst fears of some neocons, and as I naively
believed what they told me was simply incontrovertible evidence of
Saddam’s weapons programs and of Iraq’s readiness for secular
democracy. I’d love the world to be more democratic and to see the
Islamist theocracies and Arab autocracies of the Middle East reform. But
I’m required to look at the world as it is, and not as I might like it to be.
To put it more bluntly: if you have not changed your position somewhat
in the past eight years, there’s something wrong with you. The idea that
Obama should not have advisers who challenge some of the core
assumptions of the Bush years, especially with respect to Israel- Oh, brother. We can already tell this one’s going to be a fun, enjoyable
Palestine, seems nuts to me. And the impulse to blackball and smear journey to follow. Shortly after Apple’s 17-inch unibody MacBook Pro
someone as a bigot is reprehensible. began making its way out to early adopters, small legions of owners have
reported all sorts of bizarre graphical glitches. While we first assumed
that it was NVIDIA’s GeForce 9600M causing all the mayhem, further
investigation has led us to believe that faulty fan controls could be the
culprit. Granted, all of this is just speculatory at the moment, but it
seems that some users have noticed that their fans aren’t kicking into
THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN high gear when they should. ‘Course, some folks have seen those RPMs
spin up while the funky lines and psychedelic colors remain, so it’s still
“Insane” hard to pinpoint a definite root cause. We’re told that folks from NVIDIA
MAR 09, 2009 01:25A.M. and Apple are spending their weekends working to figure it out, but we
can’t help but be reminded of an eerily similar string of events with
Brooks on Boehner. It isn’t 1981. overheating MacBook Airs just last year. Hopefully a fix will be out soon;
till then, just pretend those erratic colors are some new curative feature.
Read - Fan grumbling

Read - More discussions
Filed under: Laptops
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17-inch MBP fan / overheating issues causing GeForce 9600M to bug THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN
out? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:41:00
EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Graham vs Rush
MAR 09, 2009 12:35A.M.
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“I think Rush Limbaugh’s prominence in the Republican Party is not
what we are talking about. I think his prominence in the radio world to
gin up people for conservative causes is prominent. He doesn’t play in
THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN the Republican Party. He is not an elected official,” said the South
Carolina Republican. “I’m Lindsey Graham. He has been on me for two
Gordon Brown’s Prop 8 or three or four years for different things and I take it for what it is
worth. ... Stop talking about Rush Limbaugh at the White House,” -
Posturing Lindsay Graham.
MAR 09, 2009 12:41A.M.
A reader writes:
Whilst marriage equality legislation could get through in the

UK, at a push, there is a more fundamental reason why THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN
Brown would never attempt to promote it. Such legislation
would be very strongly resisted by the Catholic hierarchy in An Atheist At 8, Ctd
the UK. MAR 09, 2009 12:25A.M.
Brown would be very wary of upsetting the Catholic vote A reader writes:
because of how important it is in Scotland as a significant
backlash would potentially have two major downsides. I think that the paragraph most deserving of repeating in
Kramer’s little talk after the one that you posted is this:
The first is that the Catholic vote is essential to the number of
Labour MPs in Scotland without which it would be very “The abundance of rebarbative passages in the
difficult for Labour to win any future general election, Bible is another reason for atheists to familiarize
especially in the present climate. Possibly the only safe seat themselves with it. Although my commentary
would Brown’s own in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. The main seldom gives voice to the atheistic repugnance
beneficiary of electoral meltdown in Scotland would be the that I feel toward God, my systematic study of the
nationalist SNP which leads to the second downside. If the Bible has made me thoroughly familiar with the
SNP pick up major gains in the general election they would numerous discreditable aspects of the Biblical
almost certainly go on to strengthen their position at the next texts. Thus, I can retort knowledgeably to
Scottish Parliamentary elections in 2011. That would increase believers who suggest that moral principles are in
the possibility of a referendum on Scottish independence need of God and the Bible as their foundations.
quite strongly and whilst at present there is no real appetite Even if the correct basic principles of morality
in Scotland for independence a significantly stronger SNP were somehow in need of foundations, the Bible
might be able to make a much more forcible argument for would be too nefarious for the purpose. Those
this come to realisation. For these reasons Brown would row principles would not be strengthened by being
in the opposite direction for all he is worth. associated with the genocidal directives of the God
of the Hebrew Scriptures, or with the scurrilous
This is news to me. fulminations of Christ against his opponents, or
with the Stalin-like gloating of the God of the New
Testament at the thought that everyone who has
not been sufficiently deferential toward Him will
suffer torture for all eternity.”
(My italics.) The point he is making (as Hitchens always does

but perhaps with too fervent explication) is that since human
moral structure has existed before, after, and without the
Bible and the Koran, the only contribution to human
behavior by the ‘holy word’ is an elevated endorsement (even
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a goading) of our retributive inclinations. Thus, the Bible and LIFEHACKER

the Koran may actually function as obstacles to the better
angels of our nature. Spacious Charging Station with
For me, the Bible is not ultimately about providing the only moral Automatic Lighting [DIY]
underpinning for human behavior. I think there are many possible MAR 09, 2009 12:00A.M.
philosophical, evolutionary or existential answers to that question that
exist independently of God’s existence, let alone any single human
being’s claim to know God. The reason Jesus of Nazareth’s message
resonates with me is because I believe, in its essentials, that it is true;
and that Jesus was indeed the Incarnation in a way no other human
being has been. I find his morality humanly impossible - which renders it
still so compelling. And for someone to read the New Testament and see
it, when taken as a whole, as a vehicle for expressing God’s vengeance
and Jesus’ anger is, in a word, perverse.
ESPN.COM
Kurt Busch wins Sprint Cup

race at Atlanta Motor Speedway Rob was sick of misplaced chargers, scattered electronics, and the hunt
MAR 09, 2009 12:21A.M. for outlets to plug his gear in. Inspired by the charging stations he’d seen
on Lifehacker, he built a spacious one for himself.
Kurt Busch, a former NASCAR Cup champion who’s been overshadowed
lately by his sibling Kyle, drove to a dominating victory Sunday at Just like Gina had repurposed a small cabinet to clean up her gadget
Atlanta Motor Speedway. clutter the cabinet, Rob turned a computer cabinet into a spacious
charging station. After doing a little spring cleaning to get the clutter out
of the cabinet, he secured several charging strips along the back of it to
provide adequate power for all his gadgets. A small sheet of foam made
ESPN.COM for a soft surface to put his gadgets on, without them sliding or getting
Arizona Cardinals help defense scratched up. The real geek cred, however, comes from the automatic
lights. He already had the cabinet, so the additional outlay was minimal.
by adding CB Bryant McFadden

MAR 09, 2009 12:06A.M.
With Kurt Warner secure as their quarterback, the Arizona Cardinals

went out to help the defense by reaching a deal with cornerback Bryant
McFadden.
I wanted a light inside the cupboard, but not just any light. It
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had to be low-wattage and switch itself on when one of the THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN
doors opened. I scoured the internet for a kit suitable but
couldn’t see anything I liked. A friend had fitted LEDs to his Frum vs Rush
motorcycle and I wondered about using them, but they would MAR 08, 2009 11:52P.M.
require a 12 volt transformer and I really couldn’t be bothered
trying to work that all out. Eventually I came across LED strip “What attracted me to conservatism as a young person in the early 1980s
lights for fish tanks and bought one on eBay. It has 24 was its challenge to engage and understand some real thinkers — Hayek,
moonstone blue coloured LEDs in a strip of flexible plastic von Mises, Kirk, Buckley, Friedman, Chambers. You didn’t have to be an
and comes with a mains transformer. £6.50. Cha-ching! intellectual, but you needed to understand them. Reagan did. Now,
instead of intellectuals, we have clowns like Joe the Plumber and
Limbaugh getting all the attention. Conservatism is overopinionated and
undereducated, proudly intolerant and insular — populated by the type
of Americans who (this happened) would spit on Darwin’s tomb in
Westminster Abbey,” - David Frum, in a must-read.
My own evolution as a young conservative was more fueled by Orwell,

Solzhenitsyn, Amalryk, Hayek, Lewis, Bernard Levin, and eventually, as I
grew old enough to understand them, Oakeshott and Strauss. My own
bastardized version of conservatism was always fueled by a sense that it
was more intellectually rigorous than liberalism. And because it had to
find the intellectual resources to counter the suffocating left-liberal elite
consensus of the 1970s, it was often more in shape than its chief rival,
liberalism.
Maybe, generationally, David and I are doomed to never experience

again the intellectual thrill of our adolescence. Maybe when we retire and
the looming liberal hegemony fades, as it, in turn, must.
He went on to wire the lighting with a reverse switch so the LED lights
are only on when the door is open, the same way your fridge only lights
up when you open the door. The end result is a compact charging station
with room for all his small electronics like ipods, PDAs, and cameras, but ESPN.COM
there’s enough room to even charge some laptops. Nice work Rob!
Hansbrough, UNC dump Duke
For more information about his project and additional pictures, check
out the link below. for ACC crown
MAR 08, 2009 11:51P.M.
Building an LED Lit Gadget Charging Station
BBC SPORT | SPORT HOMEPAGE | WORLD EDITION
Korean Yang clinches first title

MAR 08, 2009 11:47P.M.
FINAL LEADERBOARD:
-9 YE Yang (Kor) -8 J Rollins (US) -6 B Crane (US) -5 J Klauk (US)
-4 S Piercy (US), R Allenby (Aus), W MacKenzie (US), F Jacobson (Swe)
Selected others:
-2 G Owen (Eng), R McIlroy (NIre), S Garcia (Spa) +3 D Clarke (NIre)
South Korea’s Y.E. Yang won the Honda Classic at Florida’s
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PGA National by one stroke from American John Rollins. THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN
Yang held his nerve to two-putt from 50 feet at the last for a final-round Gingrich vs Rush
68 that left him on nine under and gave him his first PGA Tour victory. MAR 08, 2009 11:33P.M.
England’s Greg Owen sank six birdies as he closed with a 66 to finish “You’ve got to want the president to succeed. You’re irrational if you
alongside Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy and Spain’s Sergio Garcia on don’t want the president to succeed. Because if he doesn’t succeed the
two under par. country doesn’t succeed... I don’t think anyone should want the president
of the United States to fail. I want some of his policies to be stopped. But
Darren Clarke slipped back with a 74 to end on three over for the I don’t want the president of the United States to fail. I want him to learn
tournament. new policies,” - Newt Gingrich.
McIlroy - bidding to become the youngest winner in PGA Tour history -

worked his way up the leaderboard before consecutive bogeys to end his
round left him tied for 13th.
NU.NL - ALGEMEEN
Wayne Fountain
Leger Noord-Korea
“I’m pretty disappointed the way I finished,” he said. “I got myself into a
great position this afternoon and just let it slip.” gevechtsklaar
MAR 08, 2009 11:31P.M.
Yang started the final round with a one-shot lead and was comfortably
clear before bogeys on 15 and 17 left him looking nervously at the SEOUL - Het communistische Noord-Korea heeft zijn leger
leaderboard with Rollins in the clubhouse and one shot adrift. gevechtsklaar gemaakt, kort voor een gezamenlijke militaire oefening
van Zuid-Korea en de Verenigde Staten.
But he managed to steady himself and par the par-five 18th to join KJ
Choi as the only Koreans to win on the US men’s tour.
“From 50 feet, it’s not easy to do that to win your first golf tournament,” NU.NL - ALGEMEEN
said Rollins. “My hat’s off to him.”
Man steekt toevallig passerende
As well as a trip to the Masters, Yang also booked his place at next week’s
World Golf Championships at Doral. vrouw
MAR 08, 2009 11:18P.M.
Story from BBC SPORT:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/sport2/hi/golf/7931704.stm DEN HAAG - De politie heeft in de nacht van zaterdag op zondag in Den
Haag een 23-jarige man aangehouden die een toevallig passerende 22-
Published: 2009/03/08 22:47:37 GMT jarige vrouw verschillende keren had gestoken met een mes.
© BBC MMIX
Blinked
MAR 08, 2009 11:18P.M.
Joseph Epstein reviews Malcolm Gladwell. Money quote:
Too frequently one reads Gladwell’s anecdotes, case studies,

potted social-science research and thinks: interesting if true.
Yet one feels naggingly doubtful about its truth quotient. So
much Gladwell writes that is true seems not new, and so
much he writes that is new seems untrue. Preponderantly,
what he reports feels more like half- and quarter-truths,
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because they do not pass the final truth test about human LIFEHACKER
nature: They rarely, that is, honor the complexity of life.
Spoof Magazine Covers and
(hat tip: Frank Wilson)
More at WriteOnIt [Fun]
MAR 08, 2009 11:00P.M.
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Crosby scores SO winner as

Pens best Capitals
MAR 08, 2009 11:15P.M.
Marty Responds
MAR 08, 2009 11:15P.M.
I asked yesterday if there was any evidence in print that Chas Freeman
has exhibited “hostility toward Jews generally”, as my former boss Marty
Peretz claimed here. Marty responds today:
The responders are either stupid or blind. There are plenty of

citations to what Freeman said and wrote.
Could readers send them in? I will post any that seem to be broadly
hostile “to Jews generally.”
Your mother always told you you’d never sell enough gold records, or fall
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hard enough from a high enough office, to make the cover of a magazine.
Y.E. Yang earns first PGA Tour Prove her wrong with spoof site WriteOnIt.
win at Honda Classic Photo by Photo source by HiggySTFC.
MAR 08, 2009 11:11P.M.

WriteOnIt it is a web-based application that allows you to make spoof
magazine covers, insert captions into photographs, and put your picture
Y.E. Yang has his first PGA Tour win, closing out a one-shot victory
into other State-Fair-esque fake backgrounds, like billboards and in art
Sunday over John Rollins at the Honda Classic. galleries. There isn’t any interface for tweaking font sizes or special
effects, so you’re stuck messing around with the length of sentences with
trial and error. Still, for making some silly pictures without having to
hone your Photoshop skills, it’s a fun site. For more fun creating photo
mashups, check out PhotoFunia to paste your picture into more scenes
and situations, and MorphThing to blend your face with a celebrity’s. If
you’re proud of your handy work, share it in the comments below by
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embedding the image.
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Sony’s Vaio P benchmarked in

LIFEHACKER all its magnificent and diverse
Ask the Commenters Roundup forms
MAR 08, 2009 10:24P.M.
[Hive Mind]
MAR 08, 2009 10:30P.M.
• I can’t delete a folder in Windows XP. I’ve tried everything

including Unlocker. What can I do?
• What’s your favorite DOS game?
• Is there a Windows application that uses the computer’s mic for

real-time noise cancellation?
• I have a DVD player with HDMI and Component Video, do I need

to use them both or just the HDMI?
• How can I defeat my ISP’s connection throttling?

Thanks to the work of the gang making time over at their Vaio P forum,
• Any ideas for some non-traditional groomsmen gifts? the folks at Pocketables have been able to compile benchmarks of all the
various configurations of the ultraportable. Including the three models
• How can I set up a proxy so I can play US-only games, outside the available domestically (which all sport a 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520) and
US? the various 1.6GHz Z530 and 1.86GHz Z540-based machines available
elsewhere, this ragtag group of benchmarksters have come to the
• Where can I find a mouse with silent buttons?
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conclusion that the main factor when it comes to the machine’s Nash had his moments of fortune, and was dropped on 19, but recorded
performance is the disk drive type. “Yes,” writes Jenn Lee, “the faster his fourth Test fifty and his partnership with Chanderpaul, who now has
CPUs give the ALU/FLU numbers a noticeable bump up, but it’s not as 53 half centuries, blunted England’s day which began well with two
significant as the increase seen between a HDD and SSD.” Hopefully this wickets in the opening hour.
is some small comfort to those of you who are miffed that the 1.86GHz
model isn’t available in the States. Of course, now that we’ve seen the Daren Powell, the nightwatchman who defied them for more than two
Vaino we’re so over Sony’s sassy’n’classy non-netbook, but if you’re hours in the third Test at the Antigua Recreation Ground, lasted only 14
morbidly curious the read link tells the whole sordid tale. balls for his duck.
Filed under: Laptops He could only fend a simple catch to gully after a hostile lifting ball from
the impressive Stuart Broad, who intelligently varied his pace and grip
Sony’s Vaio P benchmarked in all its magnificent and diverse forms throughout.
originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:24:00 EST.
Please see our terms for use of feeds. Sarwan, who began the innings with a series average of 149, having made
two centuries and a 291, was dropped off Monty Panesar on 12.
Panesar’s day began with the unusual occurrence of being asked to field
in the key cover area, which was followed by the even more unusual
occurrence of a stunning diving save there to prevent a boundary.
BBC SPORT | SPORT HOMEPAGE | WORLD EDITION
His bowling was also much improved, with an excellent line and flight
West Indies duo frustrate and he should have been rewarded with the prize scalp of Sarwan, who
had been worked over expertly, but when the edge came, the usually
England reliable hands of Paul Collingwood at slip failed to grasp the chance.
MAR 08, 2009 10:23P.M.
Anyone who saw Khan’s erratic four overs for 27 late on Saturday would
Trinidad, 6-10 March 2009 have struggled to believe it would be him to oust Sarwan in the next over
but it was, and no-one was more delighted than Collingwood.
Test Match Special podcast | Blog Khan’s fourth delivery was full and fast, Sarwan’s high backlift could not
get down on the ball in time and he was trapped lbw in front of middle
606 debate | Mobile scorecards stump.
Fifth Test, Trinidad (day three, close): The Kent seamer’s unorthodox action appeared occasionally difficult for
England 546-6 v West Indies 349-4 the batsmen to fathom, particularly when the ball was never put in the
same place twice, with Gayle particularly surprised by a bouncer and a
slower ball.
By Jamie Lillywhite
That apart Gayle, having resumed on 49, coasted in leisurely fashion to
A gritty unbroken stand of 146 between Shivnarine 99, but his exit was a bizarre blur.
Chanderpaul and Brendan Nash took West Indies to 349-4, 197
behind after three days of the final Test. Owais Shah misfielded in the covers and, sensing the chance of the all-
important single, Gayle set off.
Resuming 454 adrift at 92-1, they lost run machine Ramnaresh Sarwan
(14) who was debutant Amjad Khan’s maiden scalp. The throw might well have seen him short of his ground but missed the
target, but once Gayle reached the opposite crease to confirm his
Chris Gayle reached his 10th Test ton with a quick single but in doing so century, his exertions left him in a crumpled heap with a damaged
injured his hamstring and retired hurt. hamstring.
The left-handers batted for 52 overs to avoid the follow-on and further After a lengthy period of treatment he was helped off with exactly 100 to
dent England hopes of saving the series. his name.
When the fourth West Indies wicket went down, which was perhaps Debutant Lendl Simmons took 24 balls to get off the mark but looked in
effectively the fifth given Gayle’s serious-looking injury, 144 runs were good fettle until trapped in front by Panesar.
needed to save the follow-on.
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It was Khan who was entrusted with the new ball but his radar THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN
malfunctioned spectacularly once again, and he erred on both sides of
the wicket. Why Not?
MAR 08, 2009 10:23P.M.
A wild short-pitched delivery gave Nash the opportunity to cut and he
took full advantage, recording his fourth Test fifty and the West Indies Matthew Norman proposes that England become the 51st state:
300 with a boundary over the slips.
...the upsides would more than dwarf the regrets. At a stroke
we would inherit a written constitution – and what a
WiStAhM constitution – guaranteeing such essentials for a functioning
democracy as fixed-term government, proper checks and
With Khan wayward and Panesar sending the occasional arm ball at balances to executive power, and freedom of speech. We’d be
great pace often wide of the target, wicketkeeper Matt Prior could have defended from the worst ravages of economic collapse by
recorded his own exercise video given the amount of diving around belonging to what will, with the euro facing mounting
required. pressure from the imminent bankruptcy of member
countries, remain the world’s premier reserve currency. We
The rather more reliable pace bowling of Broad was swiftly introduced would have a political leader to revere, for eight years at least.
and he induced an edge from Nash, but it fell inches short of Andrew And in the US tradition of slightly out-of-the-way cities
Strauss at slip and the record of no catches being held in the slips in the holding the honour, we could make Norwich our state capital,
match continued. with the Union Jack replaced as flag by a pot of Colman’s
Mustard.
Captain Strauss put himself under the helmet at silly point but must have
wished for a more expert fielder in the position when he spilled a sharp (hat tip: Sunil)
reflex chance low to him by Nash on 19.
In the penultimate over before tea Panesar’s quicker ball looked to have
pinned the Australian-born all-rounder in front of the stumps but
umpire Russell Tiffin said not out, and that proved to be the last main
hope of an England wicket. ESPN.COM
Rather ironically, the follow-on was avoided with four byes, taking the Report: Jon Lester, Boston Red
innings total to 30 on a difficult day for Prior.
Sox agree on $30M extension
Once again England will be left with the difficult decision of when to MAR 08, 2009 10:13P.M.
declare when they bat again - but first they have to dislodge the left-
handed limpets. Jon Lester and the Red Sox have reportedly agreed to a five-year
extension.
Story from BBC SPORT:
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Whether it’s you or your little ones with the long mane, you’ve probably
found yourself at a loss for finding hair ties, despite owning dozens.
Here’s a novel way to keep them from becoming lost treasure.
What to do? A reader over at the Parent Hacks blog writes:

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My 14-month-old daughter has a lot of hair bands since we
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Howard’s double-double helps
if they’re not all together. So, I started using a carabiner to
hold the bands. It keeps the small bands in one location,
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Everyone at my house, three-year-old included, has long hair, so you can

only imagine the number of hair ties floating around. We corral most of
them in a small compartmentalized fishing lure box, but it isn’t as speedy ESPN.COM
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Andy Roddick leads U.S. to
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Davis Cup win
MAR 08, 2009 09:42P.M.
Andy Roddick swept past Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka to give the

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Sneak Peak at Weekend

Reading
MAR 08, 2009 09:31P.M.
Here is a sneak peek at some links from my weekly Weekend Reading

column over at TheStreet:
• Making solar cheaper than coal (CNet)
• Harvard: the Inside Story of Its Finance Meltdown (Forbes.com)
• Thomas Friedman: The inflection is near? (NYT)

The interface is thankfully straightforward, and helpful for those just
• The One Country That Might Avoid Recession Is... Brazil (TIME) looking to get their work up. You get up to six panels per strip and a
roster of drag-and-drop humans, beings, objects, shapes, and speech
• Myron Scholes: “Blow up” the OTC derivatives (Bloomberg) bubbles. The editor has lots of handy little features, like scaling of objects
and the ability to clone panels, which is extremely convenient when you
• Even for Stock Market Veterans, It’s Uncharted Territory want to use the same background and objects as props in each panel.
(NYTimes) Once you create the strip, you can print it or publish it, which saves it to
the StripGenerator servers. If you choose to publish it, you can grab a
• Global water crisis: World running dry (Bloomberg) direct link, embed code, or BBcode for showing it off in forums. If you
sign up for a free account, you can save your comic strips as blog entries
with additional text and information attached to them—although
LIFEHACKER registration doesn’t add any new features to the actual editor. If you
StripGenerator Helps You know of any other sites for creating and hosting your own comic strips,
sound off in the comments below. And, as always, if you create
Create Comic Masterpieces something novel with a tool we post, you’re (semi-)obligated to post a
link!
[Fun] Strip Generator [via MakeUseOf]

MAR 08, 2009 09:30P.M.
You’re a comic genius without an artistic platform. We sympathize. Don’t

let your comic musings go unseen—use the simple drag-and-drop
interface at StripGenerator to create your own comic strips.
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THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN terms they typically offer, as well as by company-based criteria such as
industry, location and stage. VC and angel firm profiles include a
Mental Health Break snapshot of the fund, industry expertise, prior investments, executive
MAR 08, 2009 09:20P.M. profiles and links to the LinkedIn profiles of investors. For the 450
investment groups that use Angelsoft’s VC and Angel dealflow
(hat tip: SwissMiss) management tools, the search engine results provide even more data,
including a firm’s average response time to entrepreneurs applying for
funding, number of applications a firm receives each month and
additional past funding history.
The new investor sorting tool gives startups the power to vet and gain
BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL NEWS - CNNMONEY.COM insight into potential investment firms and then choose to apply for
funding from the firm which best fits their needs. It is certainly an
Canada union agrees to GM interesting way to add more transparency into the funding world.
Angelsoft was launched in 2004 by David S. Rose, Chairman of the New
concessions York Angels, and Ryan Janssen. The company’s platform is currently
MAR 08, 2009 09:15P.M. used by 450 angel groups and VCs (that use the platform for deal
workflow), with 2,500 startup applications coming in a month. In
The Canadian Auto Workers union agreed Sunday to sweeping December, the number of startup applications per month increased to
concessions with General Motors Corp., a move that clears the way for just over 3,000, perhaps a sign that the economy is taking its toll on the
the struggling auto maker secure loans from the Canadian government. ability of startups to get funding through more traditional means.
According to Angelsoft, 2.6 percent of the applicants ultimately get
funded, which seems relatively small, but that number has increased
since December. As more traffic is driven to the site, the number of
TECHCRUNCH completed deals could rise.
Angelsoft Lets Startups Find

Funding Through New Investor
Filtering Tool
MAR 08, 2009 09:03P.M.
Angel and VC funding platform Angelsoft has launched an investor

filtering tool, allowing entrepreneurs the ability to access detailed
profiles on over 1,000 venture capital firms and angel investment groups
in the U.S. Angelsoft allows startups to “push” their business ideas to
over 400 angel investment groups and 15,949 investors across the world.
The site formerly focused on connecting entrepreneurs to angel and
early-stage investors only, but recently changed its model to include VC
firms.
Angelsoft calls it an investor search engine, but it lacks a search box (a

big flaw). Instead, entrepreneurs use Kayak-like filters to adjust their
sorting results by how much an investment firm usually invests, what
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You have a camera and a willing subject, but you’re not sure how to
break your portraits out of the flat blandness that plagues many
snapshots. Avoid boring compositions with these tips.
Photo by Kevin N. Murphy.
Over at the photography site Digital Photography School, they’ve put

together a list of best practices for avoiding the boring portrait blues.
They all focus on breaking out of your default camera-pointed-right-at-
subject’s-face/subject-starring-down-camera-like-hungry-wolf setup.
The photograph I grabbed from Flickr here is an example of tip #7,
introducing a prop into the photo. Another way to go about injecting
interest into your photos is to take a well-established rule of composition
and break it:
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Avoid Mediocre Portraits with

These Tricks [Photography]
MAR 08, 2009 09:00P.M.
The Rule of Thirds is one that can be effective to break -

placing your subject either dead center can sometimes create
a powerful image - or even creative placement with your
subject right on the edge of a shot can sometimes create
interesting images.
While the tips they offer are all about composition, don’t neglect the
hardware side of things. Check out previously reviewed list of
photography hacks from David Pogue to increase your photographic
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arsenal cheaply. If you have a favorite portrait to share, link it and Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
explain its craft in the comments. Photo by Gianmaria.
10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits [Digital Photography School]

The First 100 Days

MAR 08, 2009 08:52P.M.
The Onion reports.
(hat tip: Clive Davis)
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way for TiVo, at some point Gas prices edge up, headed
MAR 08, 2009 08:59P.M.
higher - survey
MAR 08, 2009 08:48P.M.
The cost of gasoline edged up 2 cents over the past two weeks, nearly
reaching the $2 mark, according to a survey published Sunday.
From Porch To Patio

MAR 08, 2009 08:35P.M.
Think of it as a cultural and political shift. Patrick Deneen remembers an

article he read in college:
[Richard Thomas’s essay] explores the social implications of

the architectural practice of building porches on the front of
Months after Amazon Video on Demand HD began “testing” on TiVo, homes and its eventual abandonment in favor of patios
we’re being told that, um, testing is still ongoing. After Sir Dave Zatz behind the house...As with any central feature in our built
openly questioned where this long awaited addition was, he received environment, this is more than merely a passing fashion
confirmation from multiple undisclosed sources that TiVo’s trend or a meaningless design change: the transition from
implementation was still being honed. He also suspects that the real porch to patio was one of the clearest and significant
hang-up may be with Amazon, though we are told that image quality is manifestations the physical change from a society concerned
nothing short of spectacular. Sadly, there are no clues as to when this with the relationship of private and public things - in the
will all go live, but we’re totally kosher on waiting for something to be Latin, res publica - to one of increasing privacy. The porch, as
perfected. Just not for long, is all. a physical bridge between the private realm of the house and
the public domain of the street and sidewalk, was the literal
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment intermediate space between two worlds that have been
increasingly separated in our time, and hence increasingly
Amazon HD VOD still on the way for TiVo, at some point originally ungoverned in both forms.
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Are Frequent Elections a Waste Goofing Off into the
of Time and Money? Background [Downloads]
MAR 08, 2009 08:25P.M. MAR 08, 2009 08:00P.M.
By Vipul Tripathi The general elections in India, due shortly, may not
throw up a clear winner. This could mean weeks or even months of
political uncertainty as parties negotiate for power. Of the past six prime
ministers, only three could complete their term. In this context, the idea
for a fixed term for parliament or the government may [...]
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Williams, Okur lift Jazz to 11th

straight victory
MAR 08, 2009 08:17P.M.
Windows only: We know you’d never goof around on non-work stuff

while you were on the clock, but if you did, it’d be nice if your goofing off
tended to (literally) blend right in.
ESPN.COM
Big Ten champ Michigan State Chameleon allows you to assign levels of transparency to windows,
blending them into the other windows on your desktop. The idea being,
beats Purdue of course, that if something looks less glaringly like itself—a big chat
window filled with smiley faces, for instance—it’s less obvious. The
MAR 08, 2009 08:03P.M.
application worked very well with static and relatively static things like
web pages and IM windows, as seen in the screenshot here. I had mixed
results with video playback, encountering some weird playback issues
when layered over certain windows. For another creative way to hide
your goofing off—on the web at least—check out previously reviewed
Vanished web site cloak. Chameleon is freeware, Windows only.
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Youth Refuse to be ‘Targeted’ by Chameleon [via Download Squad]
Tobacco Industry
MAR 08, 2009 08:00P.M.
By Bobby Ramakant More than 80% of the tobacco use begins before the
age of 18 years. The tobacco industry loses more than 5.4 million of its
best customers every year as they die of causes attributed to tobacco use.
Documents recovered from the tobacco industry reveal that the tobacco
advertising, promotion and sponsorship campaigns are targeted [...]
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BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL NEWS - CNNMONEY.COM awful, cruel, and capricious. He gives us moments of
beauty—such sublime beauty and grace!—but taken as a
Orszag promises better whole, He is no God I want to obey and no God I can love.
spending bill - next time And Jesus? I guess you have to buy it.
MAR 08, 2009 07:57P.M.
Facing mounting criticism of a spending package packed with billions of

dollars in earmarks, the Obama administration made a vow Sunday: this
president will bring a halt to pork-laden bills.
SILICON ALLEY INSIDER
“Watchmen” Flops Opening

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Weekend
Dance Lovers Get a Feel of MAR 08, 2009 07:34P.M.
Manipur’s Richness
MAR 08, 2009 07:49P.M.
Ouch! So much for that $70 million debut. Watchmen still managed to
Manipal, Mar 9 : For a good hour-and-a-half, dance lovers were taken to finish in first place opening weekend, but its three-day total is only $55.6
Manipur by Guru Singhajit Singh, Charu Sija Mathur and their troupe million, way below what box-office experts were predicting, even after
through a variety of dances reflecting the exquisite richness of the Friday’s disappointing finish. $56 million is nothing to sneeze at for a
tradition and culture of the north eastern state. It was a treat for classical normal film, but given the expectations for this one, and how much
dance lovers as the husband-wife duo and [...] money it has to make to break even, this isn’t great. In fact, it’s even
below the opening weekend total for Zack Snyder’s last film, 300, which
made $70.9 million to become March’s biggest opener of all time.
NU.NL - ALGEMEEN
Watchmen‘s $56 million total gives the film the 6th biggest opening for
Berging toestel Turkish Airlines an R-rated movie, which is also kind of a disappointment since it opened
in more theaters than any R-rated movie in history, including 124 Imax
begint maandag screens with pricey tickets. (Fun fact: What R-rated film has the biggest
MAR 08, 2009 07:42P.M. opening in history? The previous record-holder for most screens its
debut weekend: The Matrix Reloaded.) The movie’s softer-than-
HAARLEMMERMEER - De bij Schiphol gecrashte Boeing 737 wordt expected opening means it now has an even longer way to go (roughly
komende week geborgen. $200 million) before Warner Bros. and Legendary can break even or
turn a profit, and Watchmen was supposed to be big right out of the gate.
Thanks to a lack of competition, none of the other holdover films were

THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN even close to Watchmen‘s take this weekend. In second place was the
unstoppable Tyler Perry with Madea Goes To Jail, which banked $8.8
Agnostics And The Good Book million for a new cume of $76.5 million. Taken came in third with $7.4
MAR 08, 2009 07:36P.M. million, cashing in on the teenage boys who were too young to get into
the R-rated Watchmen. Slumdog Millionaire finished fourth with $6.9
David Plotz on what he learned by reading the bible: million boosting its total to $125 million.
I began the Bible as a hopeful, but indifferent, agnostic. I Making a surprise resurgence to the fifth spot, though, was the critic-
wished for a God, but I didn’t really care. I leave the Bible as a proof Paul Blart: Mall Cop. It made $4.2 million for a new cume of
hopeless and angry agnostic. I’m brokenhearted about God. $133.6 million. Paul Blart‘s high performance could be due to the fact
that the movies in this weekend’s top 10 didn’t make much money in
After reading about the genocides, the plagues, the murders, terms of three day grosses, or it got a nice chunk of business from
the mass enslavements, the ruthless vengeance for minor sins parents who didn’t take their kids to see Watchmen.
(or none at all), and all that smiting—every bit of it directly
performed, authorized, or approved by God—I can only Finally, as we predicted, every female-friendly movie in theaters now
conclude that the God of the Hebrew Bible, if He existed, was filled spots 6-9 in the following order: He’s Just Not That Into You,
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Coraline, Confessions of a Shopaholic and Jonas Brothers: The 3D BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL NEWS - CNNMONEY.COM
Concert Experience. Interesting that Shopaholic has managed to hold on
nicely for what was perceived as such an ill-timed movie: it’s made $38.3 Apple’s D.C. store design
million to date. Coraline clawing its way to seventh place is also
impressive, since the Jonas Brothers still have all of its 3D theaters, and approved
considering how poorly that movie’s doing, maybe Disney should give MAR 08, 2009 07:31P.M.
them back.
It took five tries - and four redesigns - but Apple last week finally won
Join the conversation about this story » approval to build a retail outlet in Washington D.C., its first in the
nation’s capital.
See Also:
• Watchmen Bombs On First Day (TWX)

• Five Reasons “Watchmen” Will Be A Box-Office Bust (TWX)
Why Faith Needs Doubt
• Even Fanboys Giving “Watchmen” Mixed Reviews MAR 08, 2009 07:30P.M.
JW Wall responds to David Plotz’s book:
Those Biblical figures called heroes, and pillars, and faithful,

and righteous: they doubted. They struggled. Faith did not
SINLUNG preclude that; those titles that they earned — could they have
earned them without doubting? Would Abraham have been
Somdev Wins Davis Cup Tie for Abraham had he not negotiated for Sodom and Gomorrah?
Moses, lost in the desert, doubted and struck the rock in his
India own name when bringing forth water.
MAR 08, 2009 07:33P.M.
There is an argument to be made that the struggle with doubt
Kaohsiung, Mar 9 : Indian Tennis sensation Somdev Devvarman on is among the most important aspects of faith... We oughtn’t
Sunday steered India to the third round of the Asia/Oceania Group I confuse faith with mere belief — the one is a component, an
Davis Cup competition by beating Yen-Hsun Lu 6-2 6-1 6-3. The victory aspect of the other, though integral to it.
gave the visitors a 3-1 lead against Chinese Taipei. It was an intense
battle from the start with Somdev got the first chance [...] John Schwenkler adds his own two cents:
One reason why this sort of recognition is so important is that

NU.NL - ALGEMEEN without it, the state of doubt can seem to be such a lonely –
and, hence, sinful and shameful and unutterable – state to be
Aanslag Ierland opgeëist in; with this recognition in place, however, doubt can be the
MAR 08, 2009 07:32P.M. sort of thing that we can bear and live through and – to use
JL’s helpful phrase – struggle with together. To be clear: the
LONDEN/BELFAST - Een afsplitsing van het Ierse Republikeinse Leger point here is not that doubt is something to be celebrated or
(IRA), heeft de verantwoordelijkheid voor de aanslag op een legerbasis in even simply taken for granted; the struggle is necessary, lest a
Noord-Ierland opgeëist. Het gaat om Real IRA. doubting faith should give way to an outright unbelief. But
the recognition that Moses and Abraham – and, for that
matter, Mother Teresa and Pope Benedict and so on – are
sharers in this struggle can, while perhaps not making the
burden any lighter in itself, still make it that much easier to
open oneself to the support of those others who, though
faithful, are themselves quietly familiar with what the
struggle with doubt entails.
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golden eagle on the Reichstag, while sniping headshots at flame-

THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN throwing Nazis, you simply don’t want the war to end...
A Shoe Hurled At Ahmadinejad The surprising benefit of the game was that throughout my entire life,
since sneaking into the synagogue library with David Yagobian and
In Iran paging through a book of Nazi medical experiments, I have had
MAR 08, 2009 07:28P.M. nightmares about Nazis. Jewish summer camp didn’t help. In games like
“Call of Duty,” you get unlimited lives; you keep playing the game until
Now, that should brighten your day. you are victorious. It’s a safe place. When your character dies, you may
have to go back to a checkpoint, but this is simply inconvenient, never
tragic or final. You will always have another chance to kill your demons.
Join the conversation about this story »
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Thousands Participate in
Manipur Marathon SINLUNG
MAR 08, 2009 07:22P.M.
Twitter Boosts Public Access to
Imphal, Mar 8 : Manipur played host to the third open marathon on
Sunday, which saw a record participation of people from all walks of life. Federal Courtrooms
The marathon was hosted with an aim to promote good health and boost MAR 08, 2009 07:15P.M.
the spirit of sportive participation among the people. The 21-
kilometeres-long run was flagged off in two categories; one [...] Reporter’s use of Twitter brings federal trial to life, offers new form of
public access By Roxana Hegeman Order in the court, please, including
you tweeter! In a victory for news technology in federal courts, a judge is
SILICON ALLEY INSIDER allowing a reporter to use the microblogging service Twitter to provide
constant updates from a racketeering gang trial this week. It’s [...]
Rabbi: Playing ‘Call Of Duty’
Videogame Helped Me Conquer THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN
My Fear Of Nazis Goldblog And Freeman

MAR 08, 2009 07:18P.M. MAR 08, 2009 07:08P.M.
My colleague Jeffrey Goldberg writes:
Typically, we only hear clergy talk about violent videogames in a negative Andrew says that I base my concerns about Charles Freeman
way. on this speech, but doesn’t provide the portions of the speech
that seem most problematic to me.
But Brooklyn Rabbi Micah Kelber has an op-ed in Jewish media outlet
The Forward this weekend, in which he describes, at length and with a Here’s what I posted:
lot of subtlety, how Activision-producted (ATVI) World War II-themed
videogame ‘Call of Duty: World At War’ helped him confront his life-long My colleague Jeffrey Goldberg wrote on February 23 that
fear of Nazi persecution. Freeman was “well-known for his hostility toward Israel,” but
argued that the Saudi connections were more “substantively”
The whole thing is worth reading, but a taste of what the Rabbi has to problematic. The evidence Jeffrey provided for “hostility to
say: Israel” is this essay. Read it yourself.
As a Jew, being involved in virtually ending World War II allows you to I “provided” two links to the entire essay and urged readers to read it.
experience the closest thing possible to killing the sense of victimhood I’m not sure what else I am supposed to do. And as yet, I do not see
created by the Holocaust. And you do it without actually hurting any real evidence of “hostility to Israel” in it. I see criticism of Israel - plenty of it.
people. In fact, it’s so satisfying that when you get to shoot down the But hostility?
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A desire to see it extinguished or weakened? Nowhere I can find. A desire

to see it thrive and prosper? In many places. It should be possible to
debate this in America without being called an anti-Semite or an agent
for a foreign government. But, of course, it isn’t.
So Freeman is not just someone whose foreign policy views are mistaken
or misguided. He is “bigoted” and betrays hostility “to Jews generally.”
As to Jeffrey’s substantive point:
So the question is, what caused Charles Freeman to change

his opinion about the causes of al-Qaeda radicalism? Could it
be his close ties to Saudi Arabia? This was my original
concern about Freeman, that he was too tied to a country that
is an obvious target for the collectors and analysts of
American intelligence.
I note that Jeffrey does not explicitly conclude that Freeman’s views can
be “bought” because we don’t have evidence of that. (And since Israel
and Saudi Arabia are wuite close on the central issue of Iran these days,
the conflict seems somewhat esoteric in the first place). As I’ve said from
the start, if there are financial conflicts of interest that bar Freeman,
bring it on. But if advisers to the president cannot have any “close ties” to
a country subject to US intelligence, who would be left in a foreign policy
apparatus? More to the point: if you removed every government official
who had close ties with Israel - and if that was the reason they were
removed - can you imagine the uproar?
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