Somewhat random news...
Will you be reading a book like you read this blog (if you were to read it on a portable, eBook reader, that is)? Maybe.
This is surprising.
Which would you think has more substantive news coverage -- traditional broadcast network newscasts or The Daily Show with Jon Stewart?
Would you believe the answer is neither?
Julia R. Fox, assistant professor of telecommunications at Indiana University isn't joking when she says the popular "fake news" program, which last week featured Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as a guest, is just as substantive as network coverage.
While much has been written in the media about The Daily Show's impact, Fox's study is the first scholarly effort to systematically examine how the comedy program compares to traditional television news as sources of political information.
More on the definition of the word "torture".
This is sick (in the negative form of the word).
A Kansas-based group that says "God hates fags" plans to picket the funerals of the Amish girls killed by a disturbed man in Lancaster County, Pa.
The Westboro Baptist Church -- described as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League -- has made a name for itself by picketing the funerals of U.S. troops killed in Iraq. The troops are dying as punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality, the group says.
The Westboro group says the Amish school girls were "killed by a madman in punishment for Gov. Ed Rendell's blasphemous sins against Westboro Baptist Church.
Channels of discussion open again between six nations on the topic of Iran's nuclear programme.
And Microsoft does not like pirates, and are trying to do something about the issue instead of just bitching about it.
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