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Republicans put out their own health care bill but falls short.
Washington Post - Republicans are learning an unpleasant lesson this morning: The only thing worse than having no health-care reform plan is releasing a bad one, getting thrashed by CBO and making the House Democrats look good in comparison. Late last night, the Congressional Budget Office released its initial analysis of the health-care [...]
Will Star Trek Pirates be the start of a new distribution framework or an end to Untrammeled Broadband?
io9 - Five million people downloaded copies of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movie since it opened in theaters, and it's not even on DVD yet. Paramount cites that fact in its filing with the FCC's taskforce to create a National Broadband Plan. Easy access to broadband has made movie piracy easier than ever before, and sites like Google and Bing are [...]
Some people need help to kick their internet obsession, says article you can only read on the internet
Boston Globe - The trouble signs are all there. They don’t sleep enough, they don’t eat right, they’ve lost touch with their friends, and their school performance has dropped off a cliff. Their worried parents bring them to the doctor, fearing drug abuse or depression, but the evaluations come up empty. A doctor at Children’s Hospital [...]
2010 may be the apocalypse for Hulu
Gizmodo - AllThingsD's Peter Kafka is busy dousing concerns that recent statements by News Corp's Chase Carey—that "It's time to start getting paid for broadcast content online"—mean that Hulu is going to die, dead. He makes a good point: Read More
SYTYCD’s Murphy survivor of Rihanna like Beat Down.
CNN - TV dance judge Mary Murphy said singer Chris Brown's attack on his girlfriend, Rihanna, prompted her to talk publicly about spousal abuse that she says she suffered first as a teenage bride three decades ago. Murphy -- the vivacious judge on Fox TV's "So You Think You Can Dance" -- told CNN's Larry King that she wants other victims to [...]
10 Things You Need to Know About Apple Today
Gawker - Cupertino released a lot of new products today, and it was easy to miss a lot in the press release onslaught. To stay versed in the Tome of Apple, here are 10 things you need to know: Click Here to Read More
Another day, another stoner calling the cops because someone stole their weed
3News - There are limits to being a crime victim, as a woman who called Saginaw County, Michigan sheriff's deputies to report the theft of marijuana found out. Detective Sgt Randy F Pfau said the 54-year-old woman was arrested early Sunday after reporting two men had broken into her home in Brant Township, 130km north-northwest of [...]
Sad Sad pictures from the Chicago 2016 watch party
gawker - It's not every day your city loses the Olympic games. And for the normally stoical people of Chicago, it was a day to let their feelings show. Click for more pics
Five people injured in three shootings, or as they call it in Philadelphia, Monday
ABC News - The first shooting rang out at 7:00 p.m. along the 5600 block of McMahon Street in Philadelphia's Germantown section. Three men have been hospitalized. One man was shot in the arm, one in the side and one in the butt. September 21, 2009 (WPVI) -- The shootings happened in the Germantown, Kensington and Nicetown-Tioga [...]
