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June 24, 2008 News and Trends
Intervention is tough to watch, illuminates addiction - The Gazette (Montreal)
The kinkiest towns in America: they love Bush!
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:00:31 PDT
There is a legal case that interested me. A lawyer is arguing that his clients, who sells porn, did not violate community standards -- that legal whisp of smoke that the courts imposed which is impossible to define. His claim is that google searches showed that community members in that area of the country were keenly interested in sex. He used the “trends” function to determine this. That basically measures what terms people search for and where those people are. For instance, you can type
Wedding couple sparked UFO alert in UK
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:06:53 PDT
Special glow lanterns set off at a wedding could have been mistaken for a UFO by police officers in a helicopter.This is a follow up to a news article featured on the front page of Digg recently.
In Which I Spot Hot Trends: The Girls Of Wii Fit
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:11:19 PDT
holy wow.
Gross Guy Trend: Embarassing Fake Hair
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:12:22 PDT
a look at this tacky trend
n3td3v | Google Groups
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:27:20 PDT
Stay connected to the latest on cyber security. A cyber security news group for information security professionals. Anyone can subscribe. http://n3td3v.googlepages.com/
Seth Green
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:05:34 PDT
A really cool site about Seth Green. It has news, links, photos, videos and much more.
Daily News wins TPA awards (Galveston County Daily News)
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:15:17 PDT
ARLINGTON — The staff of The Galveston County Daily News took home eight awards Saturday in the 2008 Better Newspaper Contest.
16 Core Processor from Sun
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:07:47 PDT
167 redundant news articles about Bill Gates quitting Microsoft. Cripes, how boring. Comscore tumbles on Google news. ICANN fooling around with the TLD’s again. Contradictory stories abound. I check out a few. Microsoft pledges XP support through 2014. SUN doing a nifty 16-core processor. Larry Lessig pushing broadband initiative.
CWEB News - Breaking News, Celebrity, Business News and Video Broadcast
Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:00:01 PDT
Las Vegas, Nev. (PRWEB) August 8, 2007 -- Cwebnews.com has just gone live with the newest news network on the web. Cwebnews.com offers current and breaking news for politics, international news, ...
Google Trends vs. Community Standards On Obscenity (Slashdot)
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:05:34 PDT
circletimessquare writes "Google Trends is being used in a novel way in a pornography trial in Florida. Under a 1973 Supreme Court ruling, 'contemporary community standards' may be used as a yardstick for judging material as unprotected obscenity. This is a very subjective judgment, and so Lawrence Walters, a defense lawyer for Clinton Raymond McCowen, is using Google Trends to show that, in the ...
Indian Press Reports: Nepali Prime Minister To Give In
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:17:42 PDT
At least two Indian news Web sites have reported that Girija Prasad Koirala, 83, a long standing prime minister of Nepal, is considering to step down from his position. Hindustan Times and Press Trust of India said the reports.
Obituaries in the news (Boston Globe)
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:07:21 PDT
Eric Chia, a former steel tycoon with high political connections who was acquitted last year in Malaysia's biggest financial scandal, died Tuesday, news reports said. He was 75.
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 Leader Post | Intervention is tough to watch, illuminates addiction The Gazette (Montreal), Canada - Jun 16, 2008 ... and tribulations of Wacko Jacko take centre stage in the self-explanatory Passionate Eye doc Michael Jackson: What Happened Next? (CBC-Newsworld - 10 pm) Intervention lets the viewer decide Calgary Herald all 6 news articles |
The kinkiest towns in America: they love Bush!
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:00:31 PDT
There is a legal case that interested me. A lawyer is arguing that his clients, who sells porn, did not violate community standards -- that legal whisp of smoke that the courts imposed which is impossible to define. His claim is that google searches showed that community members in that area of the country were keenly interested in sex. He used the “trends” function to determine this. That basically measures what terms people search for and where those people are. For instance, you can type
Wedding couple sparked UFO alert in UK
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:06:53 PDT
Special glow lanterns set off at a wedding could have been mistaken for a UFO by police officers in a helicopter.This is a follow up to a news article featured on the front page of Digg recently.
In Which I Spot Hot Trends: The Girls Of Wii Fit
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:11:19 PDT
holy wow.
Gross Guy Trend: Embarassing Fake Hair
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:12:22 PDT
a look at this tacky trend
n3td3v | Google Groups
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:27:20 PDT
Stay connected to the latest on cyber security. A cyber security news group for information security professionals. Anyone can subscribe. http://n3td3v.googlepages.com/
Seth Green
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:05:34 PDT
A really cool site about Seth Green. It has news, links, photos, videos and much more.
Daily News wins TPA awards (Galveston County Daily News)
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:15:17 PDT
ARLINGTON — The staff of The Galveston County Daily News took home eight awards Saturday in the 2008 Better Newspaper Contest.
16 Core Processor from Sun
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:07:47 PDT
167 redundant news articles about Bill Gates quitting Microsoft. Cripes, how boring. Comscore tumbles on Google news. ICANN fooling around with the TLD’s again. Contradictory stories abound. I check out a few. Microsoft pledges XP support through 2014. SUN doing a nifty 16-core processor. Larry Lessig pushing broadband initiative.
CWEB News - Breaking News, Celebrity, Business News and Video Broadcast
Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:00:01 PDT
Las Vegas, Nev. (PRWEB) August 8, 2007 -- Cwebnews.com has just gone live with the newest news network on the web. Cwebnews.com offers current and breaking news for politics, international news, ...
Google Trends vs. Community Standards On Obscenity (Slashdot)
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:05:34 PDT
circletimessquare writes "Google Trends is being used in a novel way in a pornography trial in Florida. Under a 1973 Supreme Court ruling, 'contemporary community standards' may be used as a yardstick for judging material as unprotected obscenity. This is a very subjective judgment, and so Lawrence Walters, a defense lawyer for Clinton Raymond McCowen, is using Google Trends to show that, in the ...
Indian Press Reports: Nepali Prime Minister To Give In
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:17:42 PDT
At least two Indian news Web sites have reported that Girija Prasad Koirala, 83, a long standing prime minister of Nepal, is considering to step down from his position. Hindustan Times and Press Trust of India said the reports.
Obituaries in the news (Boston Globe)
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:07:21 PDT
Eric Chia, a former steel tycoon with high political connections who was acquitted last year in Malaysia's biggest financial scandal, died Tuesday, news reports said. He was 75.
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