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Atlantic Yards Court Case Begins Wednesday

appeals_131009.jpgOral arguments in Goldstein v. New York State Urban Development Corporation, the case regarding use of eminent domain for the Atlantic Yards development, will begin tomorrow in the state’s…
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Tree used for missing persons flier now missing

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For several weeks now, there has been a “missing persons” flier attached to the tree right on Avenue A at Ninth Street. I don’t recall all the details — a young man had not…
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LADYPAT: COCAINE TALK

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How to run, meditate, and not get hurt

health_20070726_fitnessrun_runner.jpgIt’s a brisk Saturday afternoon in San Francisco, and I’m standing outside of Sports Basement with a metronome in my hand. Several hundred feet away, a guy in a funny hat is running around…
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Calling all investors, consumers and moms: what do you want to know financial regulatory reform?

In an effort to expand our online engagement around financial regulatory reform, the White House is trying something new. 

The President’s speech on Friday was covered by a number of blogs,…
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MySpace’s U.S. Traffic Falls Off a Cliff

Despite some recent innovations by the former king of social networking (as well as a CEO replacement), it looks like the MySpace exodus is rapidly accelerating. Can MySpace’s…
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Quote For The Day

“It’s often forgotten or obscured, but the central political fact now is that the Democratic Party controls everything in Washington — from the branches of government to favors doled out to…
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What chimps can teach us - msnbc.com


What chimps can teach us
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Let me give you an example: There was a juvenile chimpanzee at a zoo in Sweden who had a rope wrapped twice around its neck, and…

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So, Tweetie 2 Is Awesome. What’s Next?

Screen shot 2009-10-12 at 1.14.22 PMAs we noted on Friday, Tweetie 2, the new iPhone Twitter client by Atebits, launched in the App Store. We did a preview of it a few weeks ago, noting that it was the best Twitter client…
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Mystery Google: The “I’m Feeling Lucky” Button Re-imagined

mystery-googleThe Mystery Google website offers a seriously strange riff on the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button: instead of taking you to the number one result for your own query, it takes you to the…
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Google Hops On A New Satellite To Watch Us From Space

FORMULALaserSatelliteLast year, there was a lot of coverage of Google striking a deal with satellite imagery company GeoEye to be able to use the high resolution images from its new GeoEye-1 satellite for…
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This Week, Google Boldly Goes Where It Has Been A Long Time: Mobile

Screen shot 2009-10-12 at 11.17.26 AMLike us, it appears that Google is a big fan of movies and television. It has dubbed this week “Go Mobile” week not for any real product reason, but rather because this week marks the…
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Getting everyone online 'would save billions'

Government’s Digital Inclusion Task Force unveils research showing economy could receive boost of more than £20bn

The founder of lastminute.com, Martha Lane Fox, has unveiled an ambitious…
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The missing: Each year, 275,000 Britons disappear

Odd place, Britain. Every day, 13 million CCTV cameras track our movements. We’re PIN-numbered, databased, credit-rated, nannied, Neighbourhood Watched, Facebooked, emailed and GPS-ed. You wouldn’t…
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Can maths tell the future?

Meet the professor who can seemingly predict political events using a laptop

Let’s start with some news from the near future. Iran won’t build a nuclear bomb. With extra aid money, Pakistan…