Can people diagnosed with depression go to a party and look like they're having fun? Most of us would say yes, but one insurance company thinks not. A woman in Canada got her sick leave coverage pulled after she posted photos of her birthday party to her private, locked-down Facebook account.
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Maybe Mark Zuckerberg Won’t Hate That Facebook Movie After All
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Yesterday, Facebook's Dave Recordon commented that he just finished a marathon session of The West Wing , a great show about the inner-workings of a fictional White House that ended its run on NBC in 2006. I agreed with Recordon, it was a great show. You know who else agreed? Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg . So why is this interesting? Well, ...
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Before we spin off into a Thanksgiving reprise of last summer’s death panel lunacy, let’s be clear. Nothing in Will’s statement is true. This is what is true: Both the House health bill and the measure now being debated in the Senate include a “play or pay” fee on those who don’t buy insurance. Some call it a tax, but whichever word ...
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The novelist Roberto Bolaño died in 2003. What follows is an excerpt from his last interview, published in Playboy Mexico the month of his death and now appearing in English in “Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview & Other Conversations” (Melville House Publishing), which goes on sale tomorrow. The interview was conducted by Monica ...
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It is 60 miles from the nearest airport, a three-hour drive on roads so bad the trip can be nauseating. Electricity is erratic, drinking water is contaminated, the beach in town is littered with trash and nearby rivers are either clogged with an invasive weed or plagued by silty agricultural runoff that threatens the fish on offshore reefs.
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That is all. Jason Linkins: Mark Halperin's Mary Landrieu Photoshop: Pure Class :
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Quick Read
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As many of you know, Mark Halperin is this babbling idiot whom Time magazine hired to cobble together this insipid web product called "The Page," which is designed to scam people looking for trenchant, up-to-the-minute political news into giving Time many, many unnecessary ad impressions as you follow Halperin's teasing links to his content. That ...
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It’s London, 1606. William Shakespeare (in the play spelled Shagspeare, or Shag) has just been made an offer he can’t refuse: King James I wants him to write a play about the recently foiled Gunpowder Plot. Read More...(download pdf)
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So not in the mood for blogging - or much of anything for that matter. Lots of little problems cropping up as we close in on the long weekend. I'm ready to start the holiday break right about now. But first...
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Microsoft is losing its chief financial officer, Chris Liddell, who will be departing the company at the end of the year. Liddell will be replaced by Peter Klein, the current CFO of Microsoft's Business Division. Lidell joined in May, 2005 from International Paper. The stock is at about the same place as when he joined. Liddell has overseen a ...
Marvel announced today that Kat Dennings is in fact cast to play in 'Thor'. It is still yet to be revealed what character she will play. "From Midgard to Asgard and beyond, there was much joy, for a new star has joined the cast of "Thor"!
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The holiday season is approaching fast, and that means one thing here at TechCrunch: more giveaways! Sure, we've given away Twitter gadgets and wireless music systems , but this is definitely the best giveaway yet by a mountain peak. In fact, the winner will be climbing a mountain in Peru to the fabled Inca city of Machu Picchu. Well, you and a ...
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Easy holiday shopping with Google Product Search
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This holiday season, whether you're shopping for a new sweater for Fido, a Lego set for young builders, or that fancy camera you've been eyeing all year, Google Product Search can help you find what you're looking for at a great price. You can compare products and prices from merchants across the web, from popular retailers like Amazon and Best ...
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Authored by: Francisco Noguera If you happen to be in or around London next week, here's an event you won't want to miss. Convened by our allies at Business Fights Poverty, Business Innovations to Fight Climate Change and Poverty will bring together a number of key players representing various perspectives of the development through enterprise ...
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Business investment down again
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Business investment has fallen sharply in this recession, dropping by 3% in the third quarter for a fall of 21.7% on a year earlier. The 12-month fall in manufacturing investment was 28.9%. At least the latest fall in business investment...
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Director Quentin Tarantino has revealed that the Marvel comic book was one of the movie's main inspirations!
The University of California undergraduates have been protesting and complaining and generally whinging about the recent decision of the UC Regents to up their fees by 32% , making tuition and fees about $10,000 per year. The national average is about $7,000 but that source has no range info. Well, I was around one of the UC campuses during a ...
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In âWhere We Must Be,â the first story of Laura van den Bergâs debut collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, a young woman, Jean, is driving north to Washington. After a wasted summer in Los Angeles, during which she failed to find acting work, she passes through one of the redwood forests in ...
Michael Keaton wanted to go "back to the core" of Batman, Tobey Maguire says The Lizard is a "great" villain, and Kevin Spacey wants to reprise the role of Lex Luthor!
Amazon announced some major changes to their Kindle e-book reader today. Specifically, it stated that they’ve worked out a way to increase battery life by 85%. That means that the new firmware update will allow you to leave your Kindle on (with the wifi active) for about 7 days before you need to recharge. Additionally, the Kindle will now ...
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Businesses using Twitter; there's something to this idea. Even Twitter itself realizes it, as it's expected to be a part of its own business model launching soon. In the meantime, other companies continue to jump into the ring. The lastest is American Express, which today unveiled Pulse , a Twitter stream focused on small businesses. Pulse, ...
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The Hanging Gale
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The Hanging Gale . 1995 BBC Northern Ireland . DVD 2006, Acorn Media. Via Netflix. The Plot: 1846, County Donegal, Ireland. The Phelan family struggle against the Irish Famine and the English policies and politics that turned a potato blight into deaths of one million men, women and children. The Good : OH MY GOODNESS. This miniseries was so, so ...
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