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A club official said Tuesday that the Dodgers are considering signing free-agent outfielder Alfredo Amezaga.
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Found: Lost fans, didja see? J. Wood is back! And just in time for tonight's premiere of the final season. If that doesn't sate your hunger, check out the ten most shocking Lost deaths. I admit, I was pretty surprised when Michael gunned down Ana Lucia and Libby. Cartoonist of Destiny: Calvin & Hobbes creator [...]
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Finger-Lickin' Fail: While you were out having fun and frivolity this weekend, Amazon was waging war against the publisher Macmillan by yanking all Macmillan books off its site: A person in the industry with knowledge of the dispute, which has been brewing for a year, said Amazon was expressing its strong disagreement by temporarily removing [...]
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Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias emerged Tuesday night as the Democratic Party's choice to fight for President Obama's former Senate seat.
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Illinois primary results: the land of Lincoln weighs in
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It's official: Alexi Giannoulias will face off against Mark Kirk this November to fill Barack Obama's former senate seat. It only took four plus hours after the polls closed to call it, but Giannoulias held off a challenge from David Hoffman, 39% - 34%. The Republican side was never in doubt, with Kirk crushing his teabagger opponent 57% - 19%. ...
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Hasselblad has launched the H4D-40, 40 megapixel medium format camera. It incorporates a 33 x 44mm CCD sensor (almost twice the size of a full-frame 35mm DSLR sensor) and includes the 'True Focus' AF system introduced in the H4D-50 and 60. The H4D-40 kit, including camera body, 80mm lens and viewfinder is available at a retail price of US $19,955 (
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Subway Art by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant Reviewed by Christopher Luna Rain Taxi The oversized 25th Anniversary Edition of Subway Art, an influential survey of 1970s and 1980s graffiti by photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant, offers a look at a New York City that no longer exists, as [...]
One excellent Tuesday night in 1985, after coming home from a Bible meeting, I found KPFA. KPFA is a community radio station in Berkeley that's still on the air. Tuesday nights were reserved for a show called "Maximum Rocknroll," which showcased punk rock at the time. I knew it was the devil's music, as I [...]
 
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PopMatters
An economic survey of a decade of concert-going yields an average of positive returns for my dollar. OK, Mashable. While I respect your seemingly limitless desire to cover all things social-media-related, such zeal is really clogging up my Google Reader. I took a break from the internet during the week before Christmas (filling my time with ...
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PopMatters
Not only is the Norwegian band's fifth album their most aggressive, but it's also their most focused effort to date. The difference between Shining the live act and what you hear from the band on record can be vast at times. In concert, the Norwegians are an absolutely formidable, visceral presence, hammering out an astonishing blend of ...
 
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One of the pleasures of “Ajami” is its deep immersion in the beats and melodies of everyday life in Jaffa and beyond.
 
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Engadget
It certainly took them long enough, but Olympus has finally (finally!) introduced a Micro Four Thirds camera with a price tag that's a little closer to earth. If you'll recall, both of the previous PENs cost upwards of $750, but the E-PL1 touts a much more reasonable MSRP of $599.99. And that doesn't mean Olympus has been stingy on features. Nope,
My wife and I were sitting at an exit light off the Madison beltline when I noticed the title of this piece of paper that was sitting on the side of the road. I simply had to read it.
I was at Walmart one day using the Kodak photo machine, and someone had left this photo in the scanner. I loved it so much, I paid for it so I could take it home. I like how everyone in the picture is frowning except the kid in the middle riding the horse. It never fails to raise my spirits. I framed it and have it hanging above my desk at home.
Senior Obama administration officials revealed late Tuesday they've secretly gained the cooperation of family members of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to help get the alleged Christmas Day airline bomber talking.
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Official says terrorism suspect is cooperating
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Nigerian man accused of trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day has been cooperating with investigators since last week, a federal law enforcement official said Tuesday.
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The Giants have agreed to a minor league deal with free-agent reliever Guillermo Mota and invited him to spring training.
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David Streitfield writes : The number of Americans who owed more than their homes were worth was virtually nil when the real estate collapse began in mid-2006, but by the third quarter of 2009, an estimated 4.5 million homeowners had reached the critical threshold, with their home’s value dropping below 75 percent of the mortgage balance. ...
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Engadget
Keeping with the pre-PMA announcements , Nikon also launched the S and L series of cams just now -- the S stands for "Style," and L stands for "Life." The Ls are the low-end of the bunch -- Life is apparently cheaper than Style -- and you've got two choices: the $280 L110 superzoom, which has a 15x optical zoom lens in front of a 12.3 megapixel ...
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Engadget
Nikon Coolpix P100 joins the superzoom party at 26x
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Nikon just fired off its first pre-PMA camera announcement with the new Coolpix P100 superzoom, which packs a five-way stabilized 26x optical zoom lens in front of a 10.3 megapixel CMOS sensor with ISO 3200 sensitivity, Backside Illumination and Active D-Lighting. Yeah, it's not quite the 30x zoom from the new Olympus SP-800UX , but the lens can ...
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Engadget
In the market for new desktop machinery? Gateway 's gone ahead and given its gaming-centric FX series a facelift for the new year -- nothing Alienware-esque crazy, but we do like the accessible ports up top, right next to the control dial for LED-infused lighting effects. Enough about the superficial, let's go inside: a 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 ...
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Tonight's Rescue brought to you by ItsJessMe, YatPundit, mem from somerville, jennyjem, grog, and pico. Diary Rescue is all about promoting good writers, so remember to subscribe to diarists whose work you enjoy reading. In The Raw Politics of Immigration Reform Should Lead to Legislation , Duke1676 suggests the dynamics may actually be ...
February 2, 2010 - NokiaPressServices, Tags: location-based, mobile game, Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition, Nokia N97 mini, Ovi Maps With Ovi Maps Racing, the first location-based mobile game by Nokia, players can navigate and access their location, create a track and race around the block.
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