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Congrats! - Andrew Terry

"Blogs are the perfect forum to express your opinions about anything and everything. The best part is that it doesn’t need tons of knowledge on the internet to tart a blog. All you need is to choose a desktop blogging tool. These tools speed up the blogging process. They let you write a blog offline and then publish it later at a more convenient time Many of these blogging softwares have a scheduled post feature which lets you define what time you would like to publish your articles. Some of the other features provided by these tools include a spell checker, drafts saver, remote publishing etc. These tools are available for all the three OS: – Windows, Mac, and Linux. So you just have to choose the right tool and then go ahead and blog away!" - sofarsoShawn

The very first time. And it is the first federal law to explicitly protect transgender people. Oh happy day! :) - ProsePetals (aka Denise)

10 years of GOP rule didn't help matters. - Joe Silence is silent

displaying errors isnt very trustfull.. http://labs.phpanywhere.net/ - imath

"We have no idea what we're talking about." - Steven Perez

The idjit with the Term Limit sign is clearly clueless. They haven't figured out that term limits are part of the problem w/corruption in Mexico's politics...yet they're often the same people who criticize Mexico for political corruption. LOL, yeah, dude in the middle = best protest sign ever. - ProsePetals (aka Denise)

+1 for the guy with the "no idea" sign! - Bill Sodeman

"On October 1st Google released Wave to some 100.000 selected beta testers. While I wasn’t lucky enough to get a first row seat, I had the luck to be nominated by Andrew Terry and Kol Tregaskes for an invite. 2-3 days later my nomination by these fine guys came through. Currently the best way to use Wave is using a regular browser on your computer. In some instances though you might want to use it on the go, say, on an iPhone or iPod touch. There are various claims out there that state it isn’t possible because Google said so on their site when you tried to go there with MobileSafari. It does work though, and it’s not a real secret. Have a look." - Holger Eilhard from Bookmarklet

I wish it worked on my Nokia. - Kol Tregaskes

Awesome - Zachary TG

Today in the United States, there is no legislation that allows bloggers to protect their sources. Yet bloggers have become a great way for the public -- and journalists in particular -- to keep informed about important topics. A survey from Middleberg Communications and the Society for New Communications Research released on September 22 found that 66 percent of journalists use blogs to assist in their reporting. This means blogs play an important role in newsgathering and the press. So why not legally protect bloggers and citizen journalists by allowing them to use anonymity and protect their sources? The Case of Josh Wolf The U.S. judicial system has already had one case that dealt with a blogger trying to protect his sources. The 2005 case of blogger Josh Wolf also emphasized the importance of online information to society. In July of that year, Wolf filmed a G8 protest in San Francisco. At one point during the protest, a police car was damaged during a clash between protesters...

"What is Cliqset? Basically think of it as FriendFeed) done right. Cliqset lets you aggregate your information from other social services, communicate and share in real-time, and create individual conversations around different items that you or a friend shares with the service. But the best part of Cliqset is that you can control what information your see (or don’t see) and you have more control over the influx of content." - Hendrik Neumann from Bookmarklet

"Newt Gingrich’s corporate-friendly advocacy group American Solutions for Winning the Future (ASWF) has had a propensity for telling pornography companies that they have received an award and then subsequently retracting them. Recently, ASWF awarded The Lodge — a gentleman’s club in Dallas — with an Entrepreneur of the Year award but then rescinded that award. Also, Pink Visual — a porn DVD store in California — was informed by ASWF that it received the “tremendous honor” of being named a 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year. ASWF later claimed it “inadvertently” sent the letter to Pink Visual. Allison Vivas, the president of Pink Visual, turned the tables on Newt. She told Dave McKenna of the Washington City Paper that she created a fake award for Gingrich: “I sat down with the executive team here and created a special honor to bestow upon Newt: ‘Family Values Porn Fan of the Year, 2009,’ Vivas responded via email. “We worked on the plaque design [image on the right], an event schedule, a notification to fax to his office – and of course, a letter we’ll send rescinding the offer after he receives it.”" - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"In Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, a “good” Lex Luthor arrives from an alternate universe to recruit the Justice League to help save his Earth from the Crime Syndicate, a gang of villainous characters with virtually identical super powers to the Justice League. What ensues is the ultimate battle of good versus evil in a war that threatens both planets and, through a diabolical plan launched by Owlman, puts the balance of all existence in peril." - Derrick from Bookmarklet

Definitely agree about ruling with an iron fist when it comes to the voice actors and continuity. I would've enjoyed all of the DCU animated releases more if they'd had more consistent voice acting. Even if they couldn't bring back the original voice actor from the TV shows, it would've been better had they just kept the same voice actor throughout all of the direct to DVD movies. It's jarring to have to adapt to a new Superman voice every time a new release comes out. - Brian Chang

Thanks for mentioning Traffic Bug. Traffic Bug builds backlinks by spreading out your site url to as many sites as possible on the net, be they directories, social bookmark sites, rss aggregators, search engines and more. - TrafficBug

"“Cheers erupted” at the headquarters of the conservative Weekly Standard, according to a blog post by a member of the magazine’s staff, with the headline “Obama loses! Obama loses!” Rush Limbaugh declared himself “gleeful.” “World Rejects Obama,” gloated the Drudge Report. And so on. So what did we learn from this moment? For one thing, we learned that the modern conservative movement, which dominates the modern Republican Party, has the emotional maturity of a bratty 13-year-old. But more important, the episode illustrated an essential truth about the state of American politics: at this point, the guiding principle of one of our nation’s two great political parties is spite pure and simple. If Republicans think something might be good for the president, they’re against it — whether or not it’s good for America." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"Those are the Liberal Media's sources: Charles Krauthammer's column on Iran, Newt Gingrich's Twitter feed, and the latest flagrantly fear-mongering, irresponsible, Saddam's-shopping-for-yellowcake piece from The New York Times' new Judy Miller/Michael Gordon team, causing that paper to reprise its 2002 role in leading the beating of war drums (Gregory also quoted from Peggy Noonan, Tom Friedman and John McCain). And on every topic, Gregory's questions to Obama aide Susan Rice were grounded -- as Gregory's questions typically are -- in neoconservative dogma and sounded like they were lifted from the pages of The Weekly Standard (Afghanistan: "why wouldn't the president immediately grant the request of his commanders to fully resource this war of necessity"?; Iran: "what is the deadline for Iran to either put up, to negotiate away its nuclear potential or face consequences?" U.N.: "Recently during the U.N. General Assembly Meeting in New York, Americans saw this kind of parade of... more... - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"Liberal" MSM? When they're owned by evil giant media conglomerates? That's the (bad) joke of the century! - Dennis Jernberg

"OUTRAGE: documentary outs anti-gay politicians who are secretly gay -- Documentary film-maker Kirby Dick ("This Film is Not Yet Rated") has just released his latest doc, "Outrage," about anti-gay politicians who are secretly gay. These are the twisted lawmakers who campaign against gay rights in public, but who are, in fact, gay (and who generally enjoy the rights they're publicly against, thanks to their power and privilege). An official selection of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, OUTRAGE investigates the hidden lives of some of the country's most powerful policymakers - from now-retired Idaho Senator Larry Craig, to former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevy - and examines how these and other politicians have inflicted damage on millions of Americans by opposing gay rights. Equally disturbing, the film explores the mainstream media's complicity in keeping those secrets, despite the growing efforts to "out" them by gay rights organizations and bloggers. Through a combination of... more... - Richard pancakhaus Walker from Bookmarklet

"Well, even during Obama’s presidential campaign, I did not buy into his slogan of “change” being promoted by the media and, unfortunately, by the naïve blogosphere. First of all, Obama’s record as a senator, short as it was, spoke clearly. For all those changes that he was promising, he had done nothing. In fact, he had taken the opposite position, whether it was regarding the NSA’s wiretapping or the issue of national-security whistleblowers. We whistleblowers had written to his Senate office. He never responded, even though he was on the relevant committees. As soon as Obama became president, he showed us that the State Secrets Privilege was going to continue to be a tool of choice. It’s an arcane executive privilege to cover up wrongdoing—in many cases, criminal activities. And the Obama administration has not only defended using the State Secrets Privilege, it has been trying to take it even further than the previous terrible administration by maintaining that the U.S. government... more... - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

Interesting statement from an even more interesting source. *ponders* - ProsePetals (aka Denise)

"Superman is one of those superheroes who has a whole constellation of abilities rather than a discrete superpower. But one fan theory suggests that all these abilities — from superstrength to heat vision — stem from a single superpower." - Bluesun 2600 from Bookmarklet

Byrne's 1986-era revamp, BTW, did go some ways down this road. - Andrew C

"If you've been waiting patiently for the Dropbox app [iTunes link] to hit the App Store, your wait is over. The app has arrived, and brings with it the simplicity that Dropbox users have come to know and love." - Mathew™ one of a kind from Bookmarklet

It's interesting that the app is 3.1 only. Any idea why this would be the case? - Keith Bennett from BuddyFeed

Please try OurDoings with it. - Bruce Lewis from Bookmarklet

Yes it is. - TheHenry