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February 2008
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Diebold Accidentally Leaks 2008 Election Results Early [Politics]
From Gizmodo | February 28, 2008Diebold, the company run by unscrupulous republicans that manufactures crappy, easily-hacked voting machines, has done a bang-up job of pretty... more
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If a tree's owner falls ...
| February 28, 2008
From Los Angeles TimesIf things had gone according to plan, this year of grace 2008 would have been the year that the last privately owned virgin, old-growth California... more
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New Facebook profiles to be colored blue, white [Facebook]
From Valleywag | February 27, 2008Ever since 587,715 members joined a protest group called "Students against Facebook News Feed" the day after Facebook rolled out the feature... more
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Screenshots of new Facebook profile pages [Facebook]
From Valleywag | February 27, 2008Mark Zuckerberg is chastened. 587,715 members joined a protest group called "Students against Facebook News Feed" the day after he rolled... more
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Piece By Piece
From The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan | February 26, 2008Graeme Wood is troubled that death penalty victims can't donate their organs. But he has a solution: Death-row inmates have repeatedly asked... more
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A new find is the Americas' oldest known urban site
| February 26, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesAn ancient stone plaza unearthed in Peru dates back more than five millenniums and is the oldest known urban settlement in the Americas... more
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Rod Lurie: Sacrificing the First Amendment
From The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com | February 25, 2008When reporters are in the business of obtaining hard facts that service the free flow of information, they should have a right to obtain that... more
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Early Review of The Ruins
From "ComingSoon.net - 30 most recent stories" | February 25, 2008ShockTillYouDrop.com has posted an early, positive review of DreamWorks' The Ruins , coming to theaters on April 4. Directed by Carter... more
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Mrs. O's Thesis (cont.)
From The Corner | February 24, 2008Readers are telling me I'm too darn nice. Well, that is a thing I hear a lot; but my gentle handling of Mrs Obama's thesis is colored by... more
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Molyneux Says He Was A Bit Of A Prat [Peter Molyneux]
From Kotaku | February 23, 2008A few weeks back, EA boss John Riccitiello was all about admitting mistakes. Like the way EA bought three of PC gaming's best developers... more
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Karl Rove 60 Minutes Expose: GOP Operative Explains Smear Campaign
From The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com | February 22, 2008"A Republican operative in Alabama says Karl Rove asked her to try to prove the state's Democratic governor was unfaithful to his wife in... more
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Bungie Reveals Halo 3 Ghost Town [Halo 3 DLC]
From Kotaku | February 21, 2008Today Bungie released the first screens of the first map in the upcoming Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack, due out this Spring. A general purpose... more
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Exclusive The Ruins One-Sheet!
From "ComingSoon.net - 30 most recent stories" | February 21, 2008ShockTillYouDrop.com has posted an exclusive poster for Paramount/DreamWorks' The Ruins , opening in theaters on April 4. Directed by... more
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Memories of Impeachment
From The Corner | February 21, 2008By including vague insinuations of a sex scandal, the New York Times has risked ruining their story even if there is something to the whole... more
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The stakes in the cheesehead primary
From Dick Polman's American Debate | February 19, 2008Ah Wisconsin, birthplace of the presidential primary (yes, nearly a century ago) and a state where so many candidacies have come to ruin... more
