If Guiness says its so, I guess it must be so
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Why The Kindle Stinks
posted 4 months ago, updated 2 minutes later by Newser | 1 comment
Nicholson Baker wanted to like the Kindle, honest. But when he unwrapped it and began to see what all the fuss was about, he "tussled with a sense of anti-climax," the prolific author writes in the New Yorker. Things never improved. He slams the e...
Older White Men Take Big Hit From Recession
posted 4 months ago, updated 2 minutes later by Newser | 0 comments
Typically it’s the young who lose their jobs in a recession, but not in the current slowdown. Aging white workers at the theoretical peak of their earning power are losing their jobs this time around—and they can’t find new ones, USA Today reports...
Dumbest Arguments Against Health Reform
posted 4 months ago, updated 1 minute later by Newser | 2 comments
“The opponents of reform are getting serious now,” Paul Waldman writes of the health care debate for the American Prospect, “and they've turned the volume on their megaphones of mendacity up to 11.” To read some of the most cringe-inducing argumen...
Divorce May Permanently Damage Health
posted 4 months ago, updated 5 minutes later by Newser | 1 comment
The end of a marriage means the end of good health for many people, a new study finds. Researchers discovered that people who lost a spouse, whether through divorce or death, were roughly 20% more likely to suffer chronic health problems even if t...
Palin Can Write Her Own Ticket- If She Wants To
posted 4 months ago, updated 1 minute later by Newser | 0 comments
Private citizen Sarah Palin has a lengthy to-do list, and Job No. 1 is shaping her public image as she closes the book on a topsy-turvy year, writes Dan Balz in the Washington Post. “Palin Year One was the introduction of a persona, and the constr...
Switchover to Windows 7 is a Big Pain!
posted 4 months ago, updated 1 minute later by Newser | 0 comments
The latest Windows incarnation beats Vista and XP, but don’t expect a smooth transition: upgrading from XP to Windows 7 is an ordeal, writes Walt Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal. “In fact, the process will be so painful that, for many XP users...
North Korea Blasts 'Funny Lady' Clinton
posted 4 months ago, updated 1 minute later by Newser | 0 comments
If insults were nukes, the US and North Korea would have destroyed the world today. Hillary Clinton, on a visit to Asia, told reporters that the secretive regime "has no friends left" to block denuclearization, after earlier in the week comparing ...
Biden Gushes Over Ukraine's 'Beautiful Women'
posted 4 months ago, updated 1 minute later by Newser | 1 comment
Joe Biden’s visit with the Ukrainian president today in Kiev yielded an addition to the vice president’s foot-in-mouth file, the New York Post reports. “I cannot believe that a Frenchman visiting Kiev went back home and told his colleagues he disc...
Video of Naked ESPN Reporter Inspires Hackers
posted 4 months ago, updated 1 minute later by Newser | 0 comments
Peephole video of an ESPN reporter naked in a hotel room is lighting up the sports blogosphere—and not just because Erin Andrews is the star of many a basement-dwelling mama's boy's fantasy. Some attempts to download illicit footage have led to th...
