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“Senator Lieberman stated his belief, in a letter sent today, that all videos mentioning or featuring these groups should be removed from YouTube — even legal nonviolent or non-hate speech videos,” the statement said. “While we respect and understand his views, YouTube encourages free speech and defends everyone’s right to express unpopular points of view.” [...]
Baskin-Robbins is launching soft serve ice cream to, I guess, better compete with a resurgent Dairy Queen. In one of the more mystifying marketing plans I can recall hearing, they have pregnant celebrity Tori Spelling pitching the stuff to pregnant women today. I say mystifying because OB/GYNs consistently advise pregnant women that soft serve ice [...]
UPDATE: the text code is 97678 We released a really cool election 2008 campaign tracker for Windows Mobile today. Get the latest news, blogs, “fact checks” and more on the campaign and it’s all free. Super easy to get it, just text “ELECT” to 98999 to download the widget from washingtonpost.com
There are a growing number of apps that generate APML but it’s a manual process to export this data, just like OPML. We just added a feature to our Sync Engine that enables a persistent APML URL that can be dynamically consumed by applications, and because this is your data, you decide if it’s public [...]
What is going on in state and local defined benefit retirement funds is going to make the subprime crisis look like small change. The problem is that politicians have been promising benefits to employees at the state and local level that are unsustainable because 1) they are buying votes, and 2) by the time it [...]