a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/611http3831.html"Change my ass.../a For months on the campaign trail, Barack Obama a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,455545,00.html"promised/a to bring change to Washington. But now that he's president-elect, his first potential Cabinet picks indicate that he may bring more years of Washington experience to his administration than Bill Clinton or George W. Bush did. br /

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/11/20/...ve-for-iphone/

just saw it going to macrumors to bad mines is dead :(

hey, I am getting a Mac soon (around X-mas) and I have a question about running Microsoft Word/Powerpoint. Would it be easier to:
1.) buy the Microsoft Office software for the Mac ($149.99)

or

2.) would it be easier to just install Boot Camp and run them on there. Would you have to buy the apps for Boot Camp too?

or

3.) any other way?

Thanks, this will be my first Mac so I just wanta know what I'm doing here

Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple now No. 2 in corporate smartphone market share  —  While Research in Motion continues to dominate the corporate smartphone market, new data shows Apple to be chipping awake at the BlackBerry maker's lead after having recently bludgeoned Palm to become the second leading supplier of advanced handsets to businesses.

Beta testers of AOL Sync beta will be able to sync selective information to Microsoft Outlook and to their mobile phones.

a href="http://www.youknow-forkids.com/newear.htm"Theatre of the New Ear/a. Two radio plays: one by Charlie Kaufman, the other by the Coen Brothers, recorded live and starring Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep. br / The Coen Brothers' iSawbones/i can be downloaded from the site linked above, or streamed along with Kaufman's iHope Leaves the Theatre/i a href="http://www.scottstafford.com/coen-brothers-and-charlie-kaufman-radio-drama/"here/a. smallVia a href="http://www.subtraction.com/"Subtraction/a./small

Shares of the Internet search pioneer dip into the $8 a share range, as the broader markets are beaten.

Shares of the Internet search pioneer dip into the $8 a share range, as the broader markets are beaten.

Hey everyone... My battery is dying after an hour or so... It's a 1st Gen touch. Where's a good place to get a new battery. I can replace it myself. I've looked online and there are a ton a places that sell them, but shopping online is iffy to me... Where have you guys gotten yours at???
LMK
Thanks

Polly wants a Prozac. a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1087757/Parrot-traumatised-owners-death-needs-Prozac-cope.html"Fred the Parrot/a tries to bite his neck off after his owner dies, vets prescribe bird-friendly anti-depressants. br /

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/la-auto-show/" rel="tag"LA Auto Show/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/convertibles/" rel="tag"Convertibles/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/saab/" rel="tag"Saab/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/special-limited-editions/" rel="tag"Special/Limited Editions/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-25th-anniversary-saab-9-3-cabrio/1171971/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/saab25th93cabrio---450.jpg" alt="" //abr /small div style="text-align: center;"span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"Click above for high-res image gallery of the Saab 9-3 Cabrio 25th Anniversary Edition/spanbr //div /small br /A couple of days ago we told you about this special edition a href="http:// http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/12/la-2008-preview-saab-25th-anniversary-special-edition-9-3-conve/"25th Anniversary Saab 9-3 Cabrio/a. It's a sure sign that there's not much happening when automakers launch these specials in lieu of any real new models. Saab is guilty of this right now. This is the second limited edition of the 9-3 convertible alone this year. At least this one isn't as emcolorful/em as the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/just-in-time-for-the-daffodils-saab-releases-yellow-edition-conv/"Yellow edition/a that came out this summer. This latest special edition 9-3 Convertible is meant to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the very first Saab convertible. Believe it or not that was way back in 1983.br /br /To celebrate the model, this special edition takes some cues from the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/06/09/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-saab-turbo-x/"Turbo X/a, like the design of the front bumper and steering wheel plus carbon fiber interior finishes and black floor mats with special piping. Also, like the Aero, it sports dual exhaust pipes and an anthracite gray bumper insert out back. Five-spoke, 17-inch alloy wheels will be standard and you can choose Jet Black, Carbon Grey and the new Bright Champagne (above) for the exterior. The standard Saab 2.0L turbo with 210 hp is the only engine. All of that for "just" $46,725. Oh, and those big BioPower stickers on the sides? It apparently can run on E85.br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-25th-anniversary-saab-9-3-cabrio/"LA 2008: 25th Anniversary Saab 9-3 Cabrio/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-25th-anniversary-saab-9-3-cabrio/1171971/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/saab25th93cabrio---01_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-25th-anniversary-saab-9-3-cabrio/1171981/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/saab25th93cabrio---02_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-25th-anniversary-saab-9-3-cabrio/1171983/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/saab25th93cabrio---03_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-25th-anniversary-saab-9-3-cabrio/1171972/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/saab25th93cabrio---04_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-25th-anniversary-saab-9-3-cabrio/1171973/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/saab25th93cabrio---05_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /strongsmallLive photos copyright (C)2008 Frank Filipponio/small/strongsmallstrong / Weblogs, Inc./strong/smallpa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/20/la-2008-saab-25th-anniversary-9-3-cabrio/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emLA 2008: Saab 25th Anniversary 9-3 Cabrio /em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/20/la-2008-saab-25th-anniversary-9-3-cabrio/"LA 2008: Saab 25th Anniversary 9-3 Cabrio /a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:02:00 EST. 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Pressured by financials, U.S. stocks revisit lows not seen since the bear market of 2002.

Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Google SearchWiki brings custom search results  —  Disagree with Google's search results?  You'll be able to do something about it with a change the company plans to release starting Thursday.  —  Google's SearchWiki is a feature that lets people elevate, delete, add, and annotate search results.

NFOrce NFOs->XXX
On 2008-11-21 CLIT released Gullible Teens 2
Size: 98x15MB

The box office hit 'Eagle Eye' is headed to high-def, with Paramount setting a late-December Blu-ray bow for the Shia LeBeouf thriller. Grossing nearly $100 million at the domestic box office, 'Eagle Eye'...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/highdefdigestallnews/~4/459997865" height="1" width="1"/

MAKE publisher and BoingBoing guest blogger Dale Dougherty points out this collection of unhappy hard drive sound clips you may be all too familiar with.

These are the last words of devices which will hopefully find new life as wind chimes clocks and more good stuff. Could be fun to build a percussive sample set out of these! [via BoingBoing]

More:

The Sound of Data

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Look, we'd like to think that if we didn't tell you about all of these fabulous tech deals, you'd just go on your merry way and save your cash. But we both know that isn't the case. So read on to...

Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have directed their network of servicers to halt all foreclosure and eviction proceedings between Nov. 26 2008 and Jan. 9, 2009, meant to give a recently announced rescue plan time to work. pa href="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/money_latest?a=Iri6Jx"img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/money_latest?i=Iri6Jx" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/460081103" height="1" width="1"/

On vient donc de voter pour départager les triplés de PS-ville dont le congrès de Reims vient d’accoucher. Du moins, c’est le premier tour. Dans les Deux-Sèvres, Ségolène Royal est bien sûr en tête avec seulement 68,66 % des suffrages, mais les Deux-Sèvres ne sont pas la France...

Inscrits 1225. Votants 791, soit une participation de 64,7 % (en hausse sensible par rapport au 6 novembre où il y avait eu 694 votants et 57% de participation). Nuls : 6. Exprimés 785.

Aubry  77 (9,81 %)

Hamon  169 (21,53 %)

Royal  539 (68,66 %)

Ce qui est chouette, c’est qu’ils ont tous gagné en voix par rapport aux scores obtenus par leurs motions respectives : + 31 pour Aubry, + 61 pour Hamon et + 131 pour Royal. Il n’y a donc que des gagnants, certain(e)s plus que d’autres !

A Niort-ville, sur 223 exprimés pour le Sec’sec, Pierre-Yves Marais (motion E) est reconduit dans ses fonctions avec 130 voix (61,61 %). Martine Courjaud (motion C) obtient 81 voix et il y a eu 14 nuls.

Le vote pour le Premier secrétaire donne à Niort pour 223 exprimés (51 % de participation) : Aubry 44 (19,73%) ; Hamon 70 (31,39%) ; Royal 109 (48,88 %)

Au niveau de la fédération départementale, Rodolphe Challet (motion E) est élu secrétaire fédéral avec 583 voix (77 %) contre 174 (23 %) pour Fathi Bentabet (motion C) et il y a eu 31 nuls.

PS : Juste une petite Promo pour comprendre le PS !

In this special episode of Boing Boing tv (Direct MP4 link for download), Xeni interviews Tibetan sovereignty activists Lhadon Tethong and Tenzin "Tendor" Dorjee from Students for a Free Tibet, over a Skype video chat. They're in Dharamsala, India, the home of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government In Exile, and they're attending an historic week-long meeting taking place this week to determine the future of the Tibetan independence movement. Snip from a New York Times story by Edward Wong about the "Special Meeting": The conclave is the first of its kind since 1991. The Dalai Lama has called for hundreds of Tibetans to gather in the Himalayan town of Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, to help decide on a new strategy for Tibet. In a statement released Monday, the government in exile sought to play down speculation that a significant shift in its approach to the issue of Tibetan independence might be near. “A change in policy need not come from this meeting,” the statement said, according to Reuters. “If a change in basic policy is considered necessary, there is a way that is democratic and which has the mandate of the Tibetan people.” Lhadon and Tendor are updating the SFT blog here, and they suggest that people interested in following the story check Phayul.com, and the High Peaks Pure Earth blog, with commentary from Tibetans inside Tibet and China. Here is a statement on the "Special Meeting" from the Dalai Lama, who is not personally attending. The Tibetan Government in Exile is producing video reports from the Special Meeting here. Tibetan poet Woeser has published her thoughts on the meeting here. (Special thanks to Laird Brown, and Phuntsok Dorjee)...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=bcb0a8bdf03bbe42cd66bd278eb92a6eamp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=bcb0a8bdf03bbe42cd66bd278eb92a6eamp;p=1" border="0" //a

Wireless carriers will be able to add their own MMS applications to the iPhone if they use MobiSpines software under their own brand.