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• Syria Banking on Obama Victory, Invites Advisors Syria is banking on an Obama victory and is trying to reach out to his advisors,...
• Pats Over Come Early Deficit Beat Niners 30-21 The New England Patriots for the first time in franchise history defeated the Sa...
• Racism: the elephant in the US polling booth Voters may not say it out loud but pollsters back it up: racism is a lingering, ...
• Europeans Scramble To Save Failing Banks Germany joined Ireland and Greece on Sunday in guaranteeing all private savings ...
• 10/5 Daily Kos R2K Tracking Poll: Obama 52, McCain 40 Today's Daily Kos Research 2000 tracking poll has Obama up over McCain 52-40, no...
• Convicted sex offender sentenced Convicted sex offender Louis Candela, 54, of Ashtabula, will spend the next eigh...
• Sarah Palin reckons its time to take off the gloves - a 'moosehead' in my humble opinion... Sarah Palin reckons its time to take off the gloves - a "moosehead" in my humble...
• Earl Ofari Hutchinson: No Race Card This Time in O.J. Verdict During juror selection in O.J. Simpson's Las Vegas robbery trial, Simpson and hi...
• Some keys to the Steelers' victory against Jacksonville The Pittsburgh Steelers are hurting. Don't ask me, just look at their roster. Th...
• McCain: Watch me get dirty! Ignore the economy One of the puzzling aspects of modern political campaigns is the willingness of ...
• Robbery suspect shot, killed A suspect was shot and killed during a robbery attempt near NC State Thursday ni...
• O.J. Guilty On All Counts We haven't been following his Las Vegas trial, but we're definitely following hi...
• UN offers to retain general accused of war crimes UNITED STATES: UN SECRETARY general Ban Ki-moon has offered to retain a Rwandan ...
• Ravens CB Rolle out a month after neck surgery Baltimore Ravens cornerback Samari Rolle will be sidelined up to a month after u...
• Apple says report of Steve Jobs heart attack is false A citizen journalist's report this morning that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffere...
• 'Modern Ripper' murdered mothers A sex attacker who police believed may have tried to emulate Jack the Ripper has...
• New Sony Reader has light, note-taking stylus Sony Corp. unveiled a new e-book reader Thursday with a built-in light and a tou...
• Former San Quentin Warden Condemns Death Penalty Jeanne Woodford, the former director of the California Department of Corrections...
• Palin, Biden spar on Iraq, economic crisis Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and Republican vi...
• Turkish and Kurdish Youths Clash in Western Turkey - Eurasia Daily Monitor "TURKISH AND KURDISH YOUTHS CLASH IN WESTERN TURKEY By Gareth Jenkins Thursday, ...

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• As Palin Brings Up Ayers, Obama Team Cites Keating - Washington Post Seattle Post IntelligencerAs Palin Brings Up Ayers, Obama Team Cites KeatingWash...
• LA man kills family, himself over financial woes - Reuters AFPLA man kills family, himself over financial woesReuters - 2 hours agoLOS...
• Tear gas fired at mass Thai rally - BBC News BBC NewsTear gas fired at mass Thai rallyBBC News - 58 minutes agoPolice in...
• China's Reputation On Product Safety Reaches a New Low - Washington Post Canoe.caChina's Reputation On Product Safety Reaches a New LowWashington Pos...
• UN chief wants new look at UN Georgia mission - The Associated Press Canada.comUN chief wants new look at UN Georgia missionThe Associated Press ...
• Many of dead, injured in bus crash were Laotian - San Jose Mercury News Boston GlobeMany of dead, injured in bus crash were LaotianSan Jose Mercury News...
• Allies Share Uneasiness in Changing Term Limits - New York Times The Associated PressAllies Share Uneasiness in Changing Term LimitsNew York Time...
• Court Won't Force Testimony On Firings of US Attorneys - Washington Post United Press InternationalCourt Won't Force Testimony On Firings of US Attor...
• Citigroup, Wachovia, Wells Fargo temporarily halt litigation - Bizjournals.com Wall Street Journal BlogsCitigroup, Wachovia, Wells Fargo temporarily halt litig...
• Fuld Targeted by Lawmakers as Surrogate for Wall Street Excess - Bloomberg New York Daily NewsFuld Targeted by Lawmakers as Surrogate for Wall Street Exces...
• Wobbly world markets plunge Dow below 10000 - Newsday China DailyWobbly world markets plunge Dow below 10000Newsday - 42 minutes ...
• McCain's debate goal to undercut Obama a 2-edged sword - Newsday Sydney Morning HeraldMcCain's debate goal to undercut Obama a 2-edged swordN...
• Business Cool Toward McCain?s Health Coverage Plan - New York Times Wall Street JournalBusiness Cool Toward McCain?s Health Coverage PlanNew York Ti...
• Poll: Obama Takes 6-Point Lead in Ohio - Washington Post Boston GlobePoll: Obama Takes 6-Point Lead in OhioWashington Post - 4 hours...
• A quarter of world's mammals face extinction, survey finds - San Jose Mercury News National GeographicA quarter of world's mammals face extinction, survey find...
• Computer Chip to Monitor Teen Drivers - ABC News Vancouver SunComputer Chip to Monitor Teen DriversABC News - 1 hour agoBy L...
• T-Mobile Says Android Presales Stronger Than Expected - PC World eFluxMediaT-Mobile Says Android Presales Stronger Than ExpectedPC World - 3...
• "X-Files" star David Duchovny leaves sex rehab - Reuters stv.tv"X-Files" star David Duchovny leaves sex rehabReuters - 1 h...
• Injury forces May-Treanor to sit out this 'Dancing' - USA Today CTV.caInjury forces May-Treanor to sit out this 'Dancing'USA Today ...
• Alive from New York, Fey's Palin Paces SNL - E! Online Sydney Morning HeraldAlive from New York, Fey's Palin Paces SNLE! Online&nbs...
• Rays roll over White Sox, punch ticket to ALCS - Sports Network New York Daily NewsRays roll over White Sox, punch ticket to ALCSSports Network&...
• Lowell's status rest of the way in doubt - MLB.com Los Angeles TimesLowell's status rest of the way in doubtMLB.com - 3 ho...
• Plaxico Burress skipped out on Giants to take son to school - New York Daily News New York Daily NewsPlaxico Burress skipped out on Giants to take son to schoolNe...
• New prenatal test may be less risky than amniocentesis - San Jose Mercury News CitizenNew prenatal test may be less risky than amniocentesisSan Jose Mercury Ne...
• Three Europeans win the 2008 Nobel for medicine - International Herald Tribune Washington PostThree Europeans win the 2008 Nobel for medicineInternational Hera...
• Study: Using fan on sleeping baby reduces risk of SIDS - San Jose Mercury News Telegraph.co.ukStudy: Using fan on sleeping baby reduces risk of SIDSSan Jose Me...

technology and culture, from the trenches

• The Credit Crisis and the Bailout in Plain English This is an explanation of economics. There's no way to avoid some boring detail...
• The Meat Hooker: Steak Humans are omnivorous. Probably the reason we are is that we started out as scav...
• To bail or not to bail, that is the question So King George got on the TV tonight to let everyone know that yes, the sky will...
• The 700 Billion Dollar Question Those who spend their weekends doing things other than watching the news woke up...
• Delicious, delicious irony One of our more prolific users, localroger, recently posted a diary about how th...
• ''ASCII art'' in the 1950s According to History of ASCII Art, a Korean gentleman named Gwang Hyuk Lee (or G...
• Sun Tzu for the new millenium: How-to E-Maul localroger I'm going to present to you tips, tricks, and techniques for e-mauling localroge...
• HOWTO: Avoid your civic duties, write a self-indulgent missive about the experience I didn't understand. Every time I've ever been asked to contribute to society, I...
• HOWTO: Not Get Seated on a Death Penalty Jury I didn't understand. Every time I got the subpoena before I submitted a written...
• If thy blog post offend thee, pluck it out Hide Palin under a Bush?OH NO!I'm going to let her shine....

News for nerds, stuff that matters

• Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents thesandbender writes "Ford is set to release a management system that will restr...
• Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced davidmwilliams writes "Microsoft followed their major annual Tech-Ed event in Au...
• Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth musatov writes "There's talk on The Minor Planet Mailing List about a small aste...
• Enterprise Software Sales Dried Up In September CurtMonash writes "As I predicted a week ago, it looks as if the third quarter w...
• Malaysian Blogger On Trial For Sedition neonsignal writes "Raja Petra Kamarudin, a Malaysian blogger, is in court under ...
• Artists Strive To Wrest Rights From Music Industry eldavojohn writes "The funny thing about the RIAA & BPI is that the artists ...
• NSA Open Sources Tokeneer Research Project An anonymous reader writes to mention that the Tokeneer research project has bee...
• Scientists Claim Breakthrough On Holographic TV SpuriousLogic writes to tell us that University of Arizona researchers claim to ...
• Ask Blizzard Employees About Things That Matter In just a few days, some of us will be making the trek to this year's Blizzcon e...
• Researchers To Build Underwater Airplane coondoggie writes to tell us that DARPA seems to still be having fun with their ...
• OpenGL ES 2.0 Programming Guide Martin Ecker writes "Mobile phones and other embedded devices are getting more a...
• Commerce Department Pushing For New "Copyright Czar" TechDirt is reporting that those all-too-familiar "stats" surrounding the cost o...
• Nobel Prize For Medicine Awarded, Physics Soon To Follow Nobel Prize season is here again, and the first award for Physiology or Medicine...
• Sanyo Invents 12X High-Speed Blu-ray Laser Lucas123 writes "Today Sanyo said it has created a new blue laser diode with the...
• Google Profiling Social Network Users David Harry writes "Google is looking deeper into behavioral targeting of social...

TheServerSide is a developer community, containing up-to-date news, discussions, patterns, resources, and media

• Shiny new Google Chrome shakes up the browser firmament? At The Ajax Experience conference this week in Boston, it appeared that the Java...
• Jspresso framework 2.2 (LGPLv3) has been released Jspresso is a new generation framework to easily build professional quality java...
• SpringSource dm Server released SpringSource announced the general availability of the SpringSource dm Server, a...
• UseMon Real-Time Agents Aid JVM Performance Tuning - a Tech Brief UseMon is an open-source, real-time monitoring agent that plugs into the JVM and...
• Mobicents Sip Servlets 0.6 achieves JSR-289 compliance Mobicents is the first Open Source SIP Servlets 1.1 server to pass the TCK. JBos...
• HtmlUnit 2.3, a headless java browser, released A new release of the pure java headless browser is available, which allows high-...
• The "CR" for JBoss Cache 3.0.0 is now available We are looking for feedback on new features, including performance under load, p...
• EJB 3.1 Overview Webinar Oct. 2nd In this webinar Kenneth Saks, the specification lead for Enterprise JavaBeans 3....
• Dependency management helps improve system, software quality Too much coupling of code within a system makes the system hard to understand, i...
• Mule module "Smooks for Mule" 1.0 Released We are very proud to announce the <a href="http://www.mulesource.org/dis...

New York Times Blog

• Comparable Banking Crises, 1970-2007 An I.M.F. working paper compares today's banking crisis to 42 previous banking c...
• Exotic-Dancer Economics An award for studies that "make people laugh, and then make them think" went to ...
• Will Paulson's Two Plans Unplug the 'Liquidity Trap'? Our guest "Daily Economist" Mark Sunshine argues that the Fed can't prevent a de...
• Zimbabwean Inflation Reaches 531 Billion Percent A land where a loaf of bread probably costs many times more than an entire house...
• Economists' Bailout Petitions Migrate Eastward Economists are assembling a petition asking leaders of the European Union to arr...
• How Will the Economic Crisis Change America? The new economic crisis is reshaping the American financial landscape. But what ...
• Credit Crisis is Bad News for California Thanks to the credit crisis, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger warns that the state may...
• 1929? Try 1873 A history professor suggests that comparisons to the Great Depression may be too...
• Musical Bailout Humor A song about the bailout....
• A Puzzle: Bailout Approved, Stocks Drop The stock market closed down for the day in spite of -- or perhaps, because of -...