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Christian Science Monitor | Commentary

Letters to the Editor

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 11:00pm MST

Readers write about Israel's reaction to rocket attacks from Gaza.
Israel's Gaza surge

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 11:00pm MST

The invasion has yet to reveal if Israel plans to end Hamas or just its rocket capability.
Public diplomacy begins with you

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 11:00pm MST

To revive America's image in the world, we all must be citizen diplomats.
Stop picking on Jimmy Carter

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 11:00pm MST

He suffers from an egregiously unfair reputation. His record, though, shows he was quite a good president.

PopularMechanics.com - Blogs: Technology News

Liveblog: MacWorld Keynote 2009

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 10:00pm MST

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Predictions for 2009

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2008 is over, and it's been quite a year. There are plenty of metaphors to go around. Some refer to the Black Swans (which couldn't possibly exist). Another author writes about the tipping point. I like to think of the present as our collective Wile E. Coyote moment. The usual method of predicting the future is trends analysis. I took some flak last year for saying that trends do change, and when they do, that they can change quite rapidly. Kuro5hin's first six annual predictions stories predicted a few curve balls, but most predictions were continuations of the old trends. I felt the call to reprise my role as K5's Nostradamus again this year when I noticed that a few have become entranced by the false prophet. Some predictions in last year's piece were wrong, some are still developing, and some have come to pass more-or-less as predicted. After reviewing last year's hits and misses I will offer my take on what the future has queued up.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Breaking Distant Light

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Breaking Distant Light
Credit: VIMOS, VLT, ESO

Explanation: In the distant universe, time appears to run slow. Since time-dilated light appears shifted toward the red end of the spectrum (redshifted), astronomers are able to use cosmological time-slowing to help measure vast distances in the universe. Above, the light from distant galaxies has been broken up into its constituent colors (spectra), allowing astronomers to measure the redshift of known spectral lines. The novelty of the above image is that the distance to hundreds of galaxies can now be measured on a single frame using the Visible MultiObject Spectrograph operating at the Very Large Telescope array in Chile. Analyzing the space distribution of distant objects will allow insight into when and how stars, galaxies, and quasars formed, clustered, and evolved in the early universe.

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Distribution Release: MoLinux 4.2

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MoLinux 4.2, an Ubuntu-based, general-purpose distribution developed by the regional government of Castilla La Mancha in Spain, has been released. Code named Toboso, the new release of MoLinux is based on Ubuntu 8.10, which means that most of the included applications have been upgraded to their latest versions;....
Distribution Release: Berry Linux 0.94

Fetched: January 4th, 2009, 1:00pm MST

Yuichiro Nakada has announced the release of Berry Linux 0.94, a Fedora-based live CD with KDE 4 as the default desktop: "Berry Linux 0.94 released." This is the project's first version based on the stable Fedora 10, with Linux kernel 2.6.27.10, glibc 2.9, GCC 4.3.2, X.Org Server 1.5.3....
Development Release: GeeXboX 1.2 Beta 3

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The third beta release of GeeXboX 1.2, a bootable, Linux-based media player, is now ready for testing: "Here comes beta 3 which is definitely a candidate for 1.2 release. We've performed a huge amount of bug fixes in various areas and were able to correct some longstanding issues....
Distribution Release: Lunar Linux 1.6.4

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Stefan Wold has announced the release of Lunar Linux 1.6.4, a source-based distribution designed for advanced Linux users: "The Lunar team proudly announce the final release of Lunar Linux 1.6.4, code name 'Lacus Autumni'. It is our most polished release to date. New features: working software RAID configuration;....
Development Release: Parsix GNU/Linux 2.0 Test 1

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The first test release of the upcoming Parsix GNU/Linux 2.0, a desktop distribution and live CD based on Debian's testing repository, is ready for download: "The first testing release of Parsix GNU/Linux, code name 'Boss Skua', is finally out. It took little longer due to more dramatic changes....

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

Obama commerce nominee pulls out

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:55pm MST

Tags: Americas

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson withdraws as Barack Obama's nominee for US commerce secretary.

FT.com - US homepage

Europe feels heat from gas stand-off

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:55pm MST

Russia and Ukraine traded insults at the weekend as the gas-supply stand-off between the two countries entered a fifth day, causing shortages to ripple west into Europe

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

Israeli forces split Gaza in two

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:49pm MST

Tags: Middle East

Israeli ground troops and heavy armour move deeper into the Gaza Strip, in effect cutting the territory in two.

Reuters: Top News

Israeli troops take grip on Gaza

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:49pm MST

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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops and tanks split the Gaza Strip and ringed its main city on Sunday in an offensive against Hamas that has killed more than 500 Palestinians, many of them civilians.
Richardson withdraws as Obama's commerce pick

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:48pm MST

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Sunday withdrew as U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for commerce secretary, becoming the first casualty among Obama's picks for his Cabinet.
Obama takeover augurs financial regulator shakeup

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:44pm MST

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress will take over the government this month with big plans to overhaul U.S. financial regulation and a surge of momentum behind them.

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'Two or Three' New PixelJunk Games in 2009

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:39pm MST

Tags: News

If you're a big fan of Q-Games' PixelJunk series of downloadable titles, then 2009 is going to be a good year for you. In a post on the PlayStation.Blog, Q-Games president Dylan Cuthbert recounts some of his favorite games of 2008, and then ends with a coy tease: "Here's to an amazing 2009 for gaming as I am sure it is going to be, what with two or three more PixelJunk titles coming out, right!?"
So being the expert mathematicians that we are, we can deduce this means there will be at least two new PixelJunk games this year, and maybe even three. We know what one of them will be: Back in December, Cuthbert revealed (via Kotaku) that a PSP version of PixelJunk Monsters (PS3 version pictured above) was planned for 2009, which would be "a bit more" than just a straight port.
As for the other one or two games, there's no telling what they could be. Our guess? Q-Games will get into the whole self-improvement phase, and release PixelJunk My Spanish Coach.

CNN.com

Bill Richardson bows out as Commerce nominee

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:22pm MST

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is withdrawing his nomination to be commerce secretary, he and President-elect Barack Obama said in statements today. Richardson cited the distraction of a federal investigation into his ties to a California company that won municipal bond business in New Mexico after contributing money to various Richardson causes.

Slashdot

Amtrak Photo Contestant Arrested By Amtrak Police

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:22pm MST by kdawson

Tags: Transportation

Photographer Duane Kerzic was standing on the public platform in New York's Penn Station, taking pictures of trains in hopes of winning the annual photo contest that Amtrak had been running since 2003. Amtrak police arrested him for refusing to delete the photos when asked, though they later charged him with trespassing. "Obviously, there is a lack of communication between Amtrak's marketing department, which promotes the annual contest, called Picture Our Trains, and its police department, which has a history of harassing photographers for photographing these same trains. Not much different than the JetBlue incident from earlier this year where JetBlue flight attendants had a woman arrested for refusing to delete a video she filmed in flight while the JetBlue marketing department hosted a contest encouraging passengers to take photos in flight." Kerzic's blog has an account of the arrest on Dec. 21 and the aftermath.
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The Globe and Mail - National News

Prairies hit by record cold wind chills

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:21pm MST

Tags: News

Wind chills of -50 C recorded overnight in Saskatchewan

FT.com - US homepage

Richardson withdraws as Obama's commerce pick

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:18pm MST

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has withdrawn as President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for commerce secretary, an Obama aide said.

The Globe and Mail - National News

Promised listeriosis probe still lacks investigator

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:17pm MST

Tags: News

Harper government has not yet named the leader of a promised probe into the listeriosis outbreak that killed 20 people

User Friendly the Comic Strip - The Daily Static

Cartoon For Jan 04, 2009

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:15pm MST

Cartoon for Today, Jan 04, 2009

CBC | Top Stories News

Searchers find body of missing P.E.I. teen

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:14pm MST

Searchers have found the body of a young Prince Edward Island man who went missing after leaving a New Year's Eve party at a golf course during a howling blizzard.

CBC | Canadian News

Searchers find body of missing P.E.I. teen

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:14pm MST

Searchers have found the body of a young Prince Edward Island man who went missing after leaving a New Year's Eve party at a golf course during a howling blizzard.

digg / Gaming

Huge Sonic Fan gets Ban on Hedgehogs overturned

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:10pm MST

11 year-old Judson King became so enamored with the blue video game character Sonic the Hedgehog, he decided he needed a real one.

The Globe and Mail - National News

Nasty Fantino battle winds through courts

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:09pm MST

Tags: News

Ontario's top cop heads to court to force an adjudicator he accuses of bias to step down from a police disciplinary hearing

The Onion

Mugger Can't Believe Crap Victim Has On MP3 Player

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:07pm MST

Tags: News In brief

BOSTON—Following the successful mugging of a jogger in Franklin Park, petty criminal Derek Mesker announced Monday that he cannot believe the...

CNN.com

Palestinian sources: Gaza death toll tops 500

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:04pm MST

Palestinian medical sources say Israeli forces have killed 37 Palestinians -- both civilians and militants -- since moving into the territory Saturday night. With those deaths, at least 507 Palestinians, including about 100 women and children, have been killed in the week-long military operation, and 2,600 Palestinians have been injured, most of them civilians, sources said.

FT.com - US homepage

Credit squeeze hits larger companies hardest

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:03pm MST

Large companies in Europe and the US are having their credit facilities tightened more quickly and more severely than smaller companies – in contradiction of received wisdom

CNN.com

Doctor in Gaza: Patients 'lying everywhere'

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 12:02pm MST

Gaza's main hospital, already full of Palestinians wounded in the week-long Israeli air assault, reached critical mass on Sunday, according to a Norwegian doctor volunteering at Shifa Hospital.

The Globe and Mail - National News

Body of missing PEI man found

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 11:57am MST

Tags: News

Kyle Alvin Bambrick, 18, last seen leaving New Year's Eve bash in blizzard

Hot Air » Top Picks

Video: Richardson withdraws from Obama Cabinet

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 11:55am MST by Ed Morrissey

It didn’t take long for Barack Obama to have his first brush with scandal in his administration. [...] Read the rest »

The Globe and Mail - National News

Thousands gather for avalanche victims' memorial

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 11:47am MST

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Sparwood hockey arena filled with mourners for final farewell to eight local snowmobilers

Reuters: Top News

John Travolta "heartbroken" over son's death

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 11:33am MST

Tags: topNews

NASSAU (Reuters) - John Travolta broke a two-day silence over the death of his 16-year-old son Jett on Sunday, saying he and his wife, actress Kelly Preston, were "heartbroken" by their sudden loss.

The Onion

Apple Hard At Work Making iPhone Obsolete

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 11:31am MST

Tags: News In brief

CUPERTINO, CA—Only a month after the much-heralded announcement of the iPhone, Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed that his engineers were...

CNN.com

Two journalists reported freed in Somalia

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 11:30am MST

Two journalists -- one British and one Spanish -- who were kidnapped in Somalia in November have been released, according to a Somali press group.

Reuters: Top News

Russia gas disruption spreads to Czechs, Turks

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 11:29am MST

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KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian gas supplies to the Czech Republic and Turkey dropped on Sunday, the latest victims of a deepening row between Russia and Ukraine over debts and pricing.

Edmonton Real Estate Blog

What to do when your listing expires

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 11:21am MST by Sara MacLennan
If you're trying to sell your Edmonton home, and your listing expired in the past few months, you're certainly not alone. In fact, since September almost 6000 listings expired in Edmonton - about 50 more listings expired than sold!

In other words, you had a better chance of expiring than you did selling over the past few months. If you're among the home owners in Edmonton that are faced with the dilema of re-listing your home, there are ways to improve your odds. Before you re-list, consider all your options and ask yourself these questions:
1. Marketing - How was your home marketed on the MLS? Was there a link from the MLS to a web site dedicated to your home, where buyers could see dozens of photos and find out all the additional information they could dream of? Or was there a link to your agent's home page, advertising other listings? Was there a link at all? Was your home advertised on other web sites such as Google? How many times were your ads viewed? Could you find your home if you searched for it on Google? If you don't think good online marketing matters, know this: most of our ads get about 100,000 impressions a month, and each home's web site gets upwards of 1,000 visits a month and that's on top of the 20,000 people that come to our main site each month.
2. Presentation - Did your Realtor help you stage your home for showings? Did you have professional photography or just photos your Realtor took with their point and shoot camera? How about custom print ads? What were the hilite sheets at your home like? Dull photocopies or professionally produced custom colour sheets?
3. Negotiations - Did your Realtor coach you on how to deal with offers and what to expect? Did they explain all your options? What about dealing with lowball offers? Did you feel you were prepared and in control of the offer process (if you even got any offers!)?
4. Price - How did your asking price compare to the sale price of similar homes that sold while you were listed? Did your Realtor keep you informed of sales in your neighbourhood? Did they help you determine a reasonable price for your home or just tell you what you wanted to hear?
If you want to sell now, should you try the same strategy that has already failed you, or a new strategy, with better marketing and presentation, a more experienced negotiator and a more realistic price?

In 2008, over 90% of our company's listings sold.

If you'd like to know what we do differently, and why our listings sell instead of expire contact us anytime, or check out our site on selling your home at www.SellMyEdmontonHome.com where we discuss topics such as Selecting a Realtor, Getting the Most out of the MLS, Pricing Strategy, Avoiding Common Pitfalls and a whole lot more.

The Globe and Mail - Technology News

Time to scale back at Consumer Electronics Show

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 11:19am MST

Tags: News

The focus will be on being connected, instead of being cool, as tough times hit the electronics sector

Slashdot

Developing "Eyes-Free" Gadgets and Applications

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 11:06am MST by Soulskill

Tags: cellphones

The New York Times is running a story about Google engineer T. V. Raman, who lost his vision at age 14 but didn't let that stand in the way of his interest in technology. In addition to modifying a version of Google's search engine to give preference to pages that were more compliant with accessibility guidelines, Raman is now working on making cell phones easier to use without needing to look at them. "Since he cannot precisely hit a button on a touch screen, Mr. Raman created a dialer that works based on relative positions. It interprets any place where he first touches the screen as a 5, the center of a regular telephone dial pad. To dial any other number, he simply slides his finger in its direction — up and to the left for 1, down and to the right for 9, and so on. If he makes a mistake, he can erase a digit simply by shaking the phone, which can detect motion." Raman and a co-worker, Charles Chen, are also attempting to extend various phones' ability to read back scanned text to include signs that are anywhere in the phone's field of view.
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When Hamas Absolutely, Positively Has To Get There

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 10:58am MST by The Greek

Comes fully equipped with seating for eight, weapons storage, flashing lights, sirens, and stylish UN decal package. Unfortunately not IAF proof, but does come with a small dead body for AP/Reuters photo ops when hit....

Hot Air » Top Picks

NFL Open Thread: Wildcard Playoffs

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 10:57am MST by Ed Morrissey

It’s a good thing I didn’t put up a thread on the playoffs yesterday. I would have picked against both the Chargers and the Cardinals. The Bolts had built momentum for the playoffs, but I thought Peyton Manning would have beaten them in post-season mode. The Cardinals limped into the playoffs and Atlanta finished strong, but apparently Arizona just saved it up for the playoffs. [...] Read the rest »

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

Man Utd brush aside 10-man Saints

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 10:56am MST

Tags: FA Cup

Man Utd will face Spurs at Old Trafford in the FA Cup fourth round after a comfortable 3-0 win at Southampton.

The Onion

Employee Worries Coworker's Computer Screen May Be Larger

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 10:56am MST

Tags: News In brief

DALLAS– Dan Pulsipher, a Java engineer with software developer Razornet Technologies, fretted Monday that the computer monitor of coworker Allen Walls may be larger than his own. "I've got a 17-incher," Pulsipher said. "But I'm almost positive that Allen's is a 19. What gives?" Pulsipher, who has been with Razornet three and a half years to his counterpart's six months, also fears that Walls' monitor may have a .26mm dot pitch.

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

Merseyside giants clash in FA Cup

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 10:54am MST

Tags: FA Cup

Liverpool will host Everton in the FA Cup fourth round, while Manchester United will face Spurs and Nottingham Forest visit Derby.
Kidnapped reporters freed in Somalia

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 10:53am MST

Tags: Africa

A British journalist and his Spanish colleague have been released by Somali kidnappers, according to officials in the country.

Boing Boing

Waltz With Bashir

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 10:49am MST by Xeni Jardin

Tags: art

I went to see the Israeli animated documentary feature "Waltz With Bashir" (Vals Im Bashir) last night. The autobiographical film was written and directed by Ari Folman, with illustration and art direction by David Polonsky.

It is a powerful piece of filmmaking, and I hope everyone reading this blog post will go out and support it, if it's still playing in a theater where you live. Given the escalation of conflict in Gaza this weekend, the film's message seems all the more timely and poignant.

I couldn't help but think as I was watching last night (in a mostly empty art-house theater on the other side of town) that this captures what the young Israeli soldiers must be experiencing right now, and what the Palestinians in Gaza must be experiencing, as well.

Waltz is about memory. It's a story about conflict trauma and PTSD. It's a story about how the responsibility for atrocities tends to be passed from one set of hands to another, never resting, and how the impact of violence is also passed down, never resting. It's a story about what combatants on both sides have in common: we are human beings.

Here are some stills from the movie. Here are higher-quality trailers on Apple. Here are some of the critics' reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. When the DVD comes out, I am buying it, and buying copies for friends.

Oh, and Susannah Breslin points us to these guys, Asaf and Tomer, who were credited as artists on the film. Here is my favorite still (contains nudity).

PS: Wiley Wiggins told me on Twitter last night that Folman's next project is an adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's book The Futurological Congress . That oughta be amazing. Incidentally, Waltz reminded me a lot of the film through which I first became aware of Wiley Wiggins' work, too.
Below: Speaking of the power of memory -- for me, hearing this great OMD song again, in this context, was potent. I loved that band, and was happy to see them included the film's '80s-heavy soundtrack.

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

PM defends handling of downturn

Posted: January 4th, 2009, 10:33am MST

Tags: UK Politics

Gordon Brown says his priority for the year is working on getting the UK economy back into shape, not a general election.

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