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Crossing The Threshold


By David Knowles (Political president over Barack Obama if Obama
Machine) were to win the nomination, but her
Submitted at 3/7/2008 1:32:00 AM
strategy of constantly pointing to
comparisons between her and McCain and
Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Democrats, touting her friendship with him is a truly
Barack Obama, Featured StoriesDeep bizarre, if not potentially damaging to an
down, you knew it would happen. Though Obama presidency in the fall were he to
every conceivable indicator signaled an become the nominee, Democratic primary
easy presidential victory for the election strategy.
Democrats, or maybe because of that fact,
a niggling little voice started piping up in Here's video from the news conference:
our collective minds: they will find a way
to lose.
Remember back when it was the Camp Obama responded to Clinton's
Democrats who were overwhelmingly remarks, and cast a few stones of their
happy with their choices in the race for the own, labeling Hillary as "McCain Lite.":
nomination? Edwards, Biden, Dodd,
Richardson, Clinton, Obama, take your "For seven years she aligned herself with
pick. Any of them would prove a vast Sen. McCain in putting all our eggs in
improvement over the current occupant of General Musharaf's basket," Craig [Greg,
the White House. A spirited contest would an Obama Advisor] said. "And she aligned
only help prime the eventual nominee for herself with Sen. McCain when they both
the general election. The larger point was criticized Barack Obama for taking action
that the Democrats were united, where as against al Qaeda leadership, which has
the Republicans had turned on themselves. taken safe havens in Pakistan. She aligned
Adding insult to injury, low GOP fund- herself with Sen. McCain in supporting the
raising numbers, and a slew of retiring Kyl-Lieberamn resolution," which many
members of Congress, were the fruits of a done that. Certainly, Sen. McCain has for the next Democratic nominee to deal She's starting her second term in the US Democrats fear raises the specter of war
fractured coalition. done that and you'll have to ask Sen. with." Senate, where, yes, she serves on the with Iran.
Obama with respect to his candidacy." Armed Forces committee. Beside that she's
What a difference 8 weeks makes. The She went on to heap praise upon the Like 25% of her supporters who now say never held elective office and she has little Neither campaign's remarks are helpful to
Animal Farm-like turn was on full display Republican nominee, a man who has they'd rather vote for McCain than Obama, executive experience. I think she can argue the ultimate goal of a Democratic
yesterday when Clinton campaign courted religious bigots, would not hasten Clinton apparently believes the Republican that she'd make a strong commander-in- president. They provide tailor-made
surrogates accused Obama of Ken Star a pull out from Iraq, would try to make the nominee is more qualified to be president cheif. But she's pushing a metric by which advertisements for John McCain against
tactics. In response, an Obama aide called Bush tax cuts permanent, has no intention than her rival. That's a nifty trick. Divert she's little distinguishable from Barack whichever of the two goes on to win the
Clinton "a monster" (and later apologized). of reforming health care, is pro-life, and on attention from your own qualifications by Obama. I'm honestly surprised she's not nomination. And it promises to get a whole
Hillary herself , however, provided the real and on. comparing those of the the other two guys. drawing chuckles on this one. lot worse. The battle for Pennsylvania will
news offering the following salvo: What are the specific "critical criterion" not be pretty. Rejoice Republicans,
Calling McCain the presumptive GOP that have elevated Clinton, but kept Obama Even Clinton's friends at MyDD are Christmas, yet again, has come early for
"...I think it's imperative that each of us be nominee a good friend and a behind? Josh Marshall, a man who has scratching collective head on these you this year.
able to demonstrate we can cross the "distinguished man with a great history of diligently kept his cards hidden as to which remarks. Here's Todd Beeton:
commander-in-chief threshold," the New service to our country," Clinton said, "Both Democrat he personally prefers, elaborates Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs |
York senator told reporters crowded into of us will be on that stage having crossed on this bogus distinction: I still truly believe that Hillary Clinton Comments
an infant's bedroom-sized hotel conference that threshold. That is a critical criterion would in no way want John McCain to be
room in Washington. "I believe that I've
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Michelle Obama, Part II Michigan, Take


By Justin Paulette (Political
Machine)
Obama's "in-touch" personality, the
disgruntled elitist seems, as Podhoretz
Two?
captures, to have "a chip on her shoulder." By Christopher Weber (Political
Submitted at 3/7/2008 3:07:00 AM
Machine)
Filed under: Barack Obama There seems to be an inescapable sense Submitted at 3/7/2008 2:01:00 AM
Several weeks ago, I wrote a piece that Michelle Obama doesn't much like
covering the increased attention which has America. Her pastor, whom she defends as Filed under: Primaries, 2008 PresidentThe
been afforded to Michelle Obama in the a grandfatherly figure to whom she must New Republic claims to have the scoop:
wake of her husband's rising star. At the remain loyal, espouses a vile, anti- Michigan, which had its delegates stripped
time, I was generally neutral toward Mrs. American, racist vulgarity surpassed only after pushing for an early primary, will try
Obama. I simply noted several by his mentor - Louis Farrakhan. Despite again. Expect a new caucus to be
controversial statements made by the lobbying from the campaign to soften her announced in the next few days, according
would-be First Lady and the discomfort vitriolic tone, Michelle Obama has to a source within the DNC. The state,
they provoked from sources inside and persisted in her unrelenting disparagement feeling left out, simply wants its delegates
without the Obama campaign. of America and American culture (indeed, counted.
American citizens).
The New Yorker is publishing a long However the report is at odds with what a
article on Michelle Obama next week. Such talk smacks of the spoiled, lot of experts have been saying...
While the majority of the article privileged, yet unsatisfied and ever- "The idea of redo is absurd," said Bill
mundanely forwards the observation that resentful temperament which white Ballenger, editor of Inside Michigan
Mrs. Obama is a rather likable, no- America is loathe to stomach from a Politics....so we'll just have to wait and see
nonsense sort of dame, there are disturbing prominent politician aiming to draw on how it plays out.
revelations when the article recites the moderate support. While Mrs. Obama is
substance of Mrs. Obama's stump speech. undeniably charming and pleasant, her Not surprisingly Hillary Clinton, about 100
views are not-so-subtly anti-American. delegates behind Barack Obama, is all for
Mrs. Obama regards America as "just While she does not subscribe to the another try in Michigan (and Florida,
downright mean," and Americans as outward appearance and stylistic which is in a similar situation). She "won"
"guided by fear," America is a nation of disquisition of "black power" radicals and the Wolverine State's ultimately
cynics, sloths, and complacents, "and it's racist separationist, I see no substantive meaningless Jan. 15 primary, but was the
gotten worse over my lifetime.... The life least two dozen states. Governors were Michelle Obama's lifetime - since the difference in the perspective and message only candidate on the ballot. No word from
that I'm talking about that most people are standing in front of university and crime spiral that made them intolerable emanating from these groups and Mrs. the Obama camp on the whole mess.
living has gotten progressively worse since classroom doors, attempting to bar black places to live began in the year of her birth, Obama.
I was a little girl." children and teenagers from entering white 1964. There are about 350 different Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs |
-only institutions. The per capita income of categories in which life for black people in Of all those standing on the stage in hopes Comments
These statements come on the heels of her African Americans has risen sixteen-fold particular is so far superior to what it had of gaining the keys to the White House, the
earlier admission: "For the first time in my over the past 40 years. Black been in her infancy most radical might prove to be the one who
adult lifetime, I am really proud of my homeownership has risen tenfold. The seemed the least controversial. America
country." black poverty rate has declined from 75 Michelle Obama's inverted views on might take care to notice the wolf in
percent to 25 percent. American progress and bitterness over the sheep's clothing.
And, via Powerline, I refer readers to John "struggles" of her life as a Princeton
Podhoretz's post at Contentions: Over the past 13 years, a breathtaking drop undergrad, Harvard law, multi-millionaire Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs |
in the crime rate has made poor black Senator's wife on the campaign trail to the Comments
When Michelle Obama was born, racial neighborhoods safe and habitable in cities White House all seem a bit ... much. For
intermarriage was against the law in at across the country for the first time in all of the New Yorker's gushing about Mrs.

What Next For Huck?


By Dave (Political Machine) A teaching gig at a college, a run for the seem too interested. No the veep slot is base, he could not get the acceptance of Pryor this year. Citing lack of preparation
Submitted at 3/6/2008 11:42:00 AM
senate this year or in 2010, or even likely to go to a trusted conservative from conservative Republicans. If he was a and interest, AR Republicans haven't even
television show. a state like Minnesota, Ohio, or Florida. senator he could put his votes where his asked. Wait and see time for Huckabee
Filed under: Republicans, Mike Huckabee mouth is and win over that section of the fans.
One thing for sure, Huckabee entered the A Vice President slot does seem unlikely I agree with Grover Norquist in the article GOP as well. Not that an evangelical base
presidential race a nobody governor from a at this point. Huckabee doesn't bring any that if Huckabee is serious about is a bad place to start from. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs |
small southern state and ended it with huge electoral benefit, and although he campaigning again for the presidency, a Comments
national name recognition. He has a wide might increase McCain's marginal turnout term in the senate is in order and sooner But according to the article it seems likely
range of options as this article makes clear. among the religious right, McCain doesn't rather than later. Other than his evangelical that Huckabee will not run against Mark
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Lawmaker to Bush: Skip the Olympics Iraq Progress Report May


By Mark Impomeni (Political
Machine)
Submitted at 3/6/2008 1:30:00 PM
Remain Secret
By Mark Impomeni (Political
Filed under: President Bush, Bush Machine)
Administration
Republican Congressman Frank Wolf (R- Submitted at 3/7/2008 12:00:00 AM
VA) has a suggestion for how President Filed under: Bush Administration,
Bush should address the 2008 Summer Breaking News, IraqA new National
Olympics, to be held in Beijing, China: Intelligence Estimate on security gains in
boycott. No, not like the U.S. boycott of Iraq is in production and scheduled to be
the 1980 Moscow Olympics, when delivered to Congress in advance of Iraq
President Carter ordered that American Commander Gen. David Petraeus's
athletes would not participate in protest Congressional testimony in April. But if
over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Director of National Intelligence Michael
Rep. Wolf wants the president to skip his McConnell has his way, the public may
planned personal trip to the Olympic never get to see the new NIE's conclusions.
games. Officials said that the intelligence
community has not yet decided whether to
Wolf, an Appropriations Committee make the key judgments from the report
member and co-chair of a House caucus on public, and stressed that the National
Sudan, said that China's past record on Intelligence Board, made up of the heads
human rights, it sales of arms to American of the 16 intelligence agencies in the
enemies, its spying on American In the past decade, however, China's rulers free nations that choose to engage with federal government, is leaning toward
technology companies, and its failure to have been moving toward more market China. Rep. Wolf's intentions are probably keeping them secret.
help end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur based economic reforms; and those have good ones, but they would not lead to his
region, despite a close relationship with the brought along societal changes as well. desired outcome. The United States should The move could be a reaction to the
Sudanese government, all warrant the China now has something of an upwardly not shun China, or seek to shame it before firestorm created by the release of the last
presidential snub. mobile middle class. These city-dwelling the world. Instead, it should continue to NIE's conclusions. That report focused on
Chinese own cars, cell phones, and engage China economically, culturally, Iran's nuclear programs and its some doubt on Petraeus's and Crocker's
What do you think? Have your say below. computers, although the government diplomatically, and economically; all the controversial findings that Iran has testimony. The NIE is designed to look at
strictly controls the information that may while patiently reminding China that the suspended its nuclear weapons programs in future trends, in addition to making an
be accessed via the internet. China hopes human rights issues Rep. Wolf highlights 2003 caused a diplomatic headache for the assessment of past happenings. The
View Poll to showcase the new softer side of life in are preventing the United States from Bush administration. McConnell has since intelligence community, and the Bush
the country during the Olympics. But the engaging further. That is the best way to repudiated the report in Congressional Administration, surely doesn't want the
United States policy toward China has games will also expose those middle-class gradually affect the changes in China that testimony, calling it "poorly written." report's conclusions to be used to counter
been complicated with questions of human Chinese to the outside world. Ultimately, Rep. Wolf and the West seek. And that is the public testimony of its top Iraq team.
rights and individual freedoms since supporting China in ventures like the why the president should go to the Petraeus, and Iraq Ambassador Ryan
President Richard Nixon famously open Olympics is the best way to continue the Olympics. Crocker, will give their progress report on McConnell's belief that the report's
China to the west in the early seventies. As slow course of opening that China has the troop surge in public testimony last conclusions should remain secret seems to
the world's lone remaining major been on since the 1990's. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | month. The last report by the two men, in be a prudent one. Intelligence estimates are
communist nation, China is the last Comments September of last year, was well received classified documents that contain highly
purveyor of the ideology of state control So long as the government remains on Capitol Hill and by the general public. sensitive information about United States
over every aspect of life. centrally planned and its society remains Until their testimony, there was a public policy and geopolitical strategy. They are
closed, there will always be conflicts for debate between members of Congress over not intended for general public
whether the surge was working. Since that consumption; and are certainly not meant
Sega Toys' dancing I-Spin: like an I-Dog with a woofer orifice testimony, the debate has largely been to be bared in public for America's
enemies to see.
settled on the side of those who argued that
By Thomas Ricker (Engadget) by rolling around and flipping its ears in the surge was working.
Submitted at 3/7/2008 12:19:00 AM
time with the beat. After that novelty wears Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs |
thin, you can directly attach the creature to The Iraq NIE under preparation should Comments
Filed under: Robots any audio source where it will live out its reflect that success, but it could also throw
remaining years as an external speaker.
Move over Rolly, there's a cheaper,
craplasticer bot ready to stomp out your ¥5,250 ($51) I-Spin dancing robot. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
game. Sega Toys just announced their Apparently it responds to ambient sounds
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Pelosi Will Push


Contempt
Beyond 2008
By Jay Allbritton (Political Machine)
Submitted at 3/6/2008 5:10:00 PM

Filed under: Bush Administration, House,


Nancy PelosiYesterday House Speaker
The Politics of Terror I'm Still Waiting... Nancy Pelosi said she would continue her
pursuit of contempt charges passed by the
House of Representatives against former
By Justin Paulette (Political By Denise Williams (Political US Catholics (I'm one of them), upwards White House chief of staff Josh Bolten and
Machine) - Two bombs set off in a crowded Baghdad Machine) of 6 million gays, or the survivors of the former counsel Harriet Miers even after the
Submitted at 3/7/2008 12:51:00 AM
shopping district killed 53 people and $81.2 billion dollars worth of damage and Bush administration is over. Attorney
wounding another 130. Submitted at 3/6/2008 2:30:00 PM
1,836 deaths from Katrina should be General Michael Mukasey said he would
Filed under: Terror Filed under: Endorsements, Featured horrified that a United States Presidential
In the past 24 hours: not prosecute the matter. Pelosi plans an
- The U.S. designated a Bangladeshi Stories, Scandal, Media candidate would seek and accept such a appeal of Mukasey's decision.
Islamist group, Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami, Question: Why haven't the media or our nod.
- The U.S. declared support for whatever as a "terrorist" organization. The groups is politicians--who usually have heightened
actions, including military force, the "This is about the Congress of the United
responsible for several terror attacks, sensibilities about such things--commented A hat tip to Speaker Nancy Pelosi for States," Pelosi said, "We can't say that it
government of Comoros deems necessary including a grenade attack at a political on Pastor John Hagee's endorsement of finally speaking out.
to reunify the Indian Ocean islands. Lying was important when you had a Republican
rally which left 23 dead, and its leader has John McCain with the same relish they did president and not important when you had
off Africa's east coast, Comoros is signed Osama bin Ladin's fatwa which when Louis Farrakahn endorsemed Barack McCain's feeble attempts at distancing
preparing an offensive to put down a coup a Democratic president. ... We might as
"declared American civilians to be Obama? The latter endorsement, of course, himself from Hagee here. well shred the constitution."
on Anjouan island. legitimate targets for attack." was not sought or requested, and was
wholly and totally renounced, rejected and Blogger GottaLaff looks at weather
- A Palestinian gunmanopened fire in an Polls continue to show the war and the denounced by Obama.
Israeli seminary, killing eight and pushing for contempt is a suitable
economy as the dual pillars of public Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | substitution for impeachment, which Pelosi
wounding nine students. Hamas has concern. The daily news reveals that the John McCain, on the other hand, has been Comments
declared the gunman a "hero," citing a took off the table in 2006.
former must continue to play a pivotal role seeking the endorsement of John Hagee for
recent surge in fighting between Israel and in America's selection of a new leader and over a year. Watch below why 66 million
Palestine in Gaza which resulted in the Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs |
Commander-in-Chief. Comments
deaths of over 120 Palestinians.
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- A hooded, bicycle-riding bomber struck Comments
the landmark military recruiting station in
downtown NYC's Times Square.
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Farewell, Ron Paul Oil breaks through $106!


By David Knowles (Political Congressional seat.
Machine) By Michael Fowlkes
Submitted at 3/6/2008 1:31:00 PM
Ah well. The man who sat atop the AOL (BloggingStocks)
Straw Poll all those weeks--but who
Submitted at 3/7/2008 4:35:00 AM
Filed under: Republicans, Breaking News, couldn't consistently earn a percentage of
Ron PaulABC News has learned that Ron
Paul has, at last, decided to officially drop
the votes above the single digits in non-
internet contests--certainly gave us an
Filed under: Middle East, Commodities,
OilIt seems like everyday we are seeing
Mashable Rocks
out of the race for the Republican
nomination.
interesting ride. Here are a few of the new highs for oil, and today is no SXSW: Schwag Bag
YouTube moments gave rise to an unlikely exception, with prices hitting a high today
movement. of $106.42, and are currently trading up Update
In a web video to be posted on Paul's $0.84 to $106.31.
website he will tell supporters he is By Adam Hirsch (Mashable!)
winding down his campaign, which had Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | It is not surprising that as we see oil Submitted at 3/7/2008 2:25:21 AM
already taken a back seat in recent weeks Comments continue to head higher, we also have the This week the market was impacted by a
to his simultaneous bid for reelection to his surprising decline in U.S. inventories, and SXSW has officially started and our
other side of the coin that shows the dollar Mashable Rocks! campaign and contest is
falling to new lows. As the market the official (albeit expected) announcement
from OPEC that it would not be lifting fully under way. In addition to the Grand
Dollar falls to new record- continues to push the dollar lower, you
have to wonder just how high oil is
headed? It took so long for oil to break
production quotas. Look for oil prices to
remain strong at least until the middle of
next week, and depending on next week's
Prize of a Rock Band Special Edition Set,
we have a new update for our Schwag Bag:

through the psychological $100 barrier,
low vs. euro on heightened and now, as Joseph Lazzaro pointed out
earlier, there is already talk of a $100 floor
for oil.
inventory report we could easily be
looking at $110 oil. Scary... but definitely
not out of the question at this point.
Now included is an autographed Hanson
“The Walk” CD, “The Walk: Acoustic
Live” CD, and a keychain. See Hanson

U.S. recession fears Last night we saw oil close at an all time of
$105.47, and judging by the looks of
Michael Fowlkes has worked as a stock
trader for seven years and spent the last
live at SxSW and catch their upcoming
tour.

By Joseph Lazzaro market and in the stock market after the


things right now, we are going to be setting four years working as an analyst for the For 11 different ways to enter the contest,
(BloggingStocks) U.S. Labor Department announced Friday online investment advisory service see Mashable.com/Rocks
that the U.S. economy lost 63,000 jobs in yet another record close again today. For ShareThis
Submitted at 3/7/2008 3:25:00 AM now it looks as though there really is not Investor's Observer.Permalink | Email this |
February 2008 -- the nation's largest drop Comments
Filed under: Bad news, Federal Reserve, in payrolls since March 2003. too much that could turn the recent price
RecessionThe dollar plunged to a new surge around.
record-low of $1.5463 versus the euro However, the dollar recovered somewhat
Friday, in a global-wide greenback sell-off, after the Fed, in a surprise move, took two
before recovering at mid-day after the U.S.
Federal Reserve took two actions to pump
more money into the beleaguered U.S.
actions to boost banking system liquidity.
The Fed increased by $20 billion total the
size of its next two Term Auction Facility
Midway's game is still off
banking system. auctions, known as TAF, to $100 billion, By Steven Mallas (BloggingStocks) widened to 33 cents per share versus a loss it were executing properly, should have
or $50 billion for each auction, to be held Submitted at 3/7/2008 4:25:00 AM
of 2 cents per share in the year-ago period. been able to take advantage of them. It
After the Fed's announcement, the dollar on March 10 and March 24. For the full year, net revenues declined hasn't.
recovered slightly against the euro to Filed under: Earnings reports, Microsoft 5%, and the loss widened to $1.07 per I see nothing in the release that indicates a
$1.5343, but remained down about one- Second, in an even-more surprising move, (MSFT), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), share versus a loss of 86 cents per share in positive catalyst is on the horizon for
half cent against the British pound at the Fed announced the start of new "28- Electronic Arts (ERTS), Activision Inc 2006. Even on an adjusted basis, the losses Midway and/or its stock. It's a cool
$2.0144 and down about one-tenth yen to day repurchase transactions" totaling (ATVI) were larger than before. publisher with some fun games, but I won't
102.60 yen against the Japanese yen. another $100 billion. Further, the Fed said Midway Games (NYSE: MWY), a I've been following Midway for a long be buying its thesis -- if there is one --
for the new 28-day loans, banks will be competitor of videogame publishers such time, and I have to say that I just don't anytime soon. I'll stick with my Activision
U.S. jobs data sparks selling able to post as collateral U.S. Treasuries, as Activision (NYSE: ATVI), Electronic think the publisher's stock is worth shares, and I'd urge others to look at an
agency debt, or agency mortgage-backed Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS), THQ (NASDAQ: anyone's time right now. Sony (NYSE: EA, or even a THQ, for possible value.
Prior to the Fed's liquidity-enhancing securities -- which are eligible as collateral THQI), and Take-Two (NASDAQ: SNE), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and Disclosure: Steven Mallas own shares of
actions, the currency markets drove the in conventional open market operations. TTWO), reported earnings on Thursday for Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) all have their Activision; positions can change at any
dollar down on speculation that the Fed the fourth quarter. They weren't good. Net new consoles out -- PlayStation 3, Xbox time. Permalink | Email this | Comments
would again lower benchmark, short-term Continue reading Dollar falls to new revenues went down by 20%, and the loss 360, and Wii, respectively -- so Midway, if
interest rates by 75 basis points at its record-low vs. euro on heightened U.S.
policy meeting on March 18 in an attempt recession fearsPermalink | Email this |
to stimulate a U.S. economy that shows Comments
increasing signs of contraction. Those
recession fears grew in the currency
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Golden gains for Yamana Are Americans poor? Feds raid


(AUY) By Aaron Katsman (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 3/7/2008 3:00:00 AM
Reddy Ice:
By Steven Halpern (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 3/7/2008 4:05:00 AM
Yamana is aToronto-based miner that has
operations in both North and South
America.
Filed under: Consumer experience,
Economic data, Federal Reserve,
Recession
For what?
Filed under: Newsletters, Yamana Gold "Last year, the company produced 773,000 The Federal Reserve yesterday released By Zac Bissonnette
(AUY), Commodities, Stocks to Buy ounces of gold. This year, the company statistics showing that for all of 2007, (BloggingStocks)
"Gold is the only true hedge against the expects to boost production to 1.3 million household net worth rose 3.4% to $57.7 Submitted at 3/7/2008 3:12:00 AM
falling dollar, the unfolding credit crisis, ounces.That's a 68% increase! trillion, the slowest growth in five years.
After the effects of 4.1% inflation are Filed under: Law, ScandalsA Reddy Ice
inflation, and geopolitical turmoil," notes "On top of that, if AUY's quarterly profits (NYSE: FRZ) press release issued at 6:10
resource expert Larry Edelson in Real come in at the expected 22 cents a share included, real net worth fell for the year.
Despite these figures, I think we need to PM ET on Thursday gives a whole new
Wealth. Here's a look at Yamana Gold when they report earnings on March 25, meaning to the phrase terse. The 2-
(NYSE: AUY). that would put full-year profits at 77 cents put things in perspective. After all,
economic growth is cyclical and as such sentence release was titled "Reddy Ice
"I've been saying for a long time that gold a share -- 1,000% higher than last year! If Holdings, Inc. Press release." Interestingly,
could hit $1,000. Many called me crazy. this happens, and it looks like it will, these from time to time as the economy
weakens, household net worth will when the news is more optimistic, the titles
Now, all of the market fundamentals - shares are primed for a nice upward are more descriptive: Reddy Ice Holdings,
from the beleaguered U.S. economy that move." decrease. It happened 5 years ago. It's not economy will never recover.
as if households lost 20-30% of their net Inc. Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend.
faces imminent inflation spikes to a Each day, Steven Halpern's Things have been bad before and they have
battered dollar and global economic TheStockAdvisors.com offers the latest worth. After factoring in inflation, the always recovered.
decrease was less than 1%. The US is still Yesterday's PR was issued to disclose that
uncertainty - point to gold taking off to market commentary and favorite Aaron Katsman is the lead Portfolio federal officials executed a search warrant
well above $1,000 an ounce. investment ideas from the nation's leading by far the wealthiest nation on earth and Manager and Managing Director of
Americans have the highest standard of at the Company's corporate office in Dallas
"This is great news for our the gold financial newsletter advisors.Permalink | America Israel Investment Associates, on March 5. The PR adds that they are, of
positions in your portfolio, including our Email this | Comments living of any people on earth. That's why LLC. and Senior Editor of
there is an immigration problem. People course, cooperating and that business will
newest recommendation, Yamana Gold. IsraelNewsletter.com. DISCLOSURE: continue as usual.
from around the world will do whatever it Writer's fund has no positions in any stock
takes to get to the US. So if their wealth mentioned as of 3/07/08Read | Permalink |
drops minimally, I don't think it's such a It's been a tough run for Reddy Ice. GSO
Email this | Comments Capital's deal to buy the company was
big deal.
The pessimists can complain that things terminated at the end of January. The
are bad and if you listen to them the agreement was set to pay investors $31.25
per share and, in spite of Shamrock
Activist Value Fund's opposition to the
Analyst upgrades: SWX, HITT Analyst initiations: ABCW, deal, it's looking like it would have been
pretty good right now. For a very good, in-
and REP TOMO and SKIL depth breakdown of how the deal fell
apart, check out the M&A Law Prof Blog.
By Eric Buscemi (BloggingStocks) introductions and growing its global sales By Eric Buscemi (BloggingStocks) • Skillsoft (NASDAQ: SKIL) was
The stock is down almost 30% mid-
efforts. They believe shares are Submitted at 3/7/2008 3:55:00 AM
assumed with an Outperform rating at morning but I wouldn't go bargain-hunting
Submitted at 3/7/2008 3:35:00 AM
undervalued and maintain a $43 target. William Blair, as they believe the NETg just yet. The federal raid could be about
Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst • Repsol SA (NYSE: REP) was raised to Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst acquisition will drive significant operating
initiationsMOST NOTEWORTHY: margin improvement in the coming years. anything -- we have no idea -- and this
upgrades and downgrades, Urban Buy from Hold at Deutsche Bank as they stock has to be considered extremely risky
Outfitters (URBN)MOST expect good news to flow in 2008. Anchor Bancorp, TomoTherapy and
Skillsoft Corp were today's noteworthy OTHER INITIATIONS: until more information emerges.Permalink
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Microwave and Repsol SA were today's OTHER UPGRADES: initiations:
noteworthy upgrades: • Lehman reinstated MarkWest Energy
• Goldman upgraded CNOOC (NYSE: • Keefe Bruyette initiated Anchor Bancorp (NYSE: MWE) with an Overweight rating.
• Citigroup upgraded shares of Southwest CEO) to Buy from Neutral and added (NASDAQ: ABCW) with a Market • Friedman Billings initiated C.R. Bard
Gas (NYSE: SWX) to Buy from Hold on shares to their Conviction Buy List. Perform rating and $18 target, as they (NYSE: BCR) with a Market Perform
valuation, as they believe the company's • Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ: URBN) prefer to wait for credit and capital rating and $102 target.
fundamentals have improved enormously was raised to Equal Weight from concerns to subside. • Wachovia initiated Cooper Industries
over the last three years. Underweight at Morgan Stanley. • Jefferies believes TomoTherapy (NYSE: CBE) and Thomas & Betts
• Thomas Weisel upgraded shares of • Broadpoint raised Ultimate Software (NASDAQ: TOMO) should trade higher (NYSE: TNB) with Market Perform
Hittite Microwave (NASDAQ: HITT) to (NASDAQ: ULTI) to Buy from Neutral. based on the company's strong new order ratings.
Overweight from Market Weight, as they growth and would be buyers at current
believe the company is executing on its Permalink | Email this | Comments levels. The firm started shares with a Buy Permalink | Email this | Comments
strategy of increasing new product rating and $17 target.
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Analyst downgrades: PRTS, Is $100 oil here to stay?


TRAK and APPY By Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
By Eric Buscemi (BloggingStocks) market value is tied to the AppyScore test Submitted at 3/7/2008 4:15:00 AM

Submitted at 3/7/2008 3:45:00 AM


for appendicitis, while available clinical Filed under: International markets,
data may not be sufficient to drive Consumer experience, Commodities,
Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst adoption. The firm lowered APPY to OilTraders who favor technical analysis --
upgrades and downgradesMOST Perform from Outperform. a highly specialized cadre in Wall Street's
NOTEWORTHY: U.S. Auto Parts, Concrete Canyon -- are quick to point out Future Shop offers trade-in
DealerTrack and AspenBio Pharma were OTHER DOWNGRADES:
today's noteworthy downgrades:
the mirror aspects to key price levels, in
this case a psychological level, the $100 oil
credit for HD DVD players,
• Piper downgraded shares of U.S. Auto
• Wachovia cut Reddy Ice (NYSE: FRZ)
to Market Perform from Outperform.
price. will donate old decks to
Parts (NASDAQ: PRTS) to Neutral from • Deutsche Bank lowered its rating on The oil market's recent, consecutive closes "$100 floor" for the price of oil. You heard charity
Buy following the company's Q4 results. Valspar (NYSE: VAL) and Airgas (NYSE: right -- $100 as a floor for oil's price, and
• JMP Securities cut DealerTrack ARG) to Hold from Buy.
above $100 per barrel are a show of By Darren Murph (Engadget)
strength from a technical standpoint. That it's not a comforting thought. Still, as
(NASDAQ: TRAK) to Market Perform • Goldman downgraded Orbitz Worldwide fact, combined with the mirror aspect -- or technical analysts will note, it's a Submitted at 3/7/2008 1:24:00 AM
from Strong Buy as they believe future (NYSE: OWW) to Neutral from Buy. what was once psychological resistance at possibility that executives, economists and Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
market share losses to RouteOne are more $100, is now psychological support at policy makers alike, not to mention typical
significant than previously believed. Permalink | Email this | Comments $100 -- means that oil may remain above citizens, will have to consider as a Slowly but surely, we're seeing retailer
• Oppenheimer has concerns that most of $100 for a long time. potential economic reality, moving after retailer conjure up its own trade-in /
AspenBio Pharma's (NASDAQ: APPY) forward. exchange program to deal with the finality
A $100 oil floor? Continue reading Is $100 oil here to of the format war. Canada's Future Shop,
stay?Permalink | Email this | Comments
Further, traders are now talking about a

Sony Ericsson files patent on haptic gaming device, Microsoft said to be ditching
doesn't call it PSPhone 20GB Xbox 360 for 60GB model
By Joshua Topolsky (Engadget) device would vibrate in accordance with By Donald Melanson (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/7/2008 1:57:00 AM
button-presses, though it's unclear whether Submitted at 3/7/2008 3:53:00 AM
this will just be a standard vibration, or a
Filed under: Cellphones, Gaming more advanced, location-specific feedback Filed under: GamingWe'd already heard
system. Even with a little buzz, we're not about a possible price cut to the Xbox 360,
It's nice to know that Sony Ericsson is quite sure you can replicate the feeling real but it looks like that might not be all that
plugging away on making our crazy, dare- gaming controls provide -- and that could Microsoft has in store, as TrustedReviews
to-dream fantasies a reality. The latest seriously interfere with our typical success is now reporting that the 20GB hard drive
proof that someone up there (and by up in games. in the standard Xbox 360 model is about to
there, we mean Japan) likes us comes in get the boot in favor of a more spacious
the form of a new patent for a touchscreen [Via Unwired View] 60GB one. That word apparently comes
handheld that forgoes physical buttons for regular buttons, and would instead by from a "rock solid source," who says that
a haptic-feedback scheme. The design configurable to any number of forms (PSP, Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Microsoft wants to get it out the door by
mandates that the phone / game device phone, MP3 player, digital camera) by the end of its financial year, which comes
would be free of the pesky clutter of arrangement of on-screen controls. The at the end of June. TrustedReviews also obviously remains up in the air,
goes into a bit of speculation, saying that TrustedReviews is about as confident as
HTC launching MID devices in 2008? Microsoft is "toying with the idea of
introducing a new 360 SKU," and that a
can be with the 60GB Xbox 360 news,
saying that you can take it to the bank.
By Thomas Ricker (Engadget) "squeezing the market share currently model with a built-in Blu-ray drive would
Submitted at 3/6/2008 10:33:00 PM
enjoyed by UMPCs." Everyone and their seem to be "the most logical conclusion," Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
monkey knows that UMPCs don't account although they say an external drive "makes
DigiTimes is back with another Taiwan for enough market share to warrant joy. sense too." While that possibility
industry rumor. This time they have HTC
launching MID handsets in 2008. No course, the whole thing becomes suspect Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
surprise there as HTC jumped into the when their source claims that MIDs will be
UMPC game long ago with the Shift. Of
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Texting generation
carrying spelling habits
to birth certificates?
By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/7/2008 2:25:00 AM

Filed under: Cellphones

It's bad enough when exams have to cater


to horrific spellers due to their SMS-based
vocabulary, but we're doing everything we
Snakebots traverse terrain, plan can to make ourselves believe this latest
report simply isn't true. Reportedly, a
silent, midnight attack social analyst in Australia somehow
believes that the wide range in spellings in
By Joshua Topolsky (Engadget) the bots to take on a diverse variety of a few popular names is due in large part to
terrain and tasks, made easier by the fact the fact that we spend way too much time
Submitted at 3/7/2008 2:52:00 AM as a whole conjugating and hyphenating in
that the little guys aren't limited to wheel-
Filed under: Robots based movement. To really get an idea of order to get text-based messages across.
the possibilities (and extreme creepiness), Said analyst was even quoted as saying
Apparently the Biorobotics Lab at check the video after the break. We just that "the use of a 'y' instead of an 'i' has hit
Carnegie Mellon University has been quite hope you enjoy the techno version of epidemic proportions, as has the use of 'k'
busy as of late... building an army of
robotic snakes. Though we've seen droid
Crazy Train as much as we do. Neuromonics Oasis quiets the ring over 'c'." Realistically, we're not about to
believe the SMS craze is actually affecting
children's names en masse, but please, do
snakes before, bot-makers at the school
have been investigating the myriad
possibilities of single-task snakes, coming
[Thanks, Andrew]
Continue reading Snakebots traverse
terrain, plan silent, midnight attack
in your ears, won't stop the voices your next born a favor and give him / her
the vowels they deserve.
up with configurations for swimming, By Joshua Topolsky (Engadget) mixture of white noise and music to train
your brain to ignore the ringing. The player [Via textually]
crawling, and climbing, amongst others. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Submitted at 3/7/2008 4:32:00 AM
gradually reduces the level of the white
The program is concerned with enabling Filed under: Portable Audio noise, and after six months of treatment, Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
FUTURE
continued from page 7 Do you have a constant, annoying ringing
patients can use the device as needed. This
kind of relief doesn't come for free,
in your ears? If you're like us, you however, as counseling and the unit will
however, has certainly put an interesting on it. Better still, Future Shop will be probably suffer from at least a mild form cost you $3,000 to $6,000, and you
twist on things. First off, it'll accept donating all of the returned HD DVD of tinnitus. Whether it's from exposure to probably won't be able to get your
standalone HD DVD players purchased players to the Boys and Girls Clubs of massive jet engines, or just listening to insurance to pay for it.
from anywhere until April 3rd. In Canada "for use in their after-school and Reign In Blood one too many times, you
exchange, you'll receive $100 off the evening programs." Now if that's not a probably wish there was some way to stop [Via Medgadget]
purchase of an LG or Samsung Blu-ray / reason to trade-up, we don't know what is. the incessant noise. Well, a company
HD DVD combo player, but not a called Neuromonics may be able to help, Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
standalone Blu-ray player of any kind. [Thanks, Josh] using an audio player which alternates a
Unfortunately, that means your options are
prettylimited, but we can certainly Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
understand the retailer's desire to wash its
hands of anything with an HD DVD logo
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Bloxes Brings
Cardboard Tech
To The Office
By Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 3/7/2008 7:14:25 AM

Toyota already looking beyond There is nothing that screams “frugal


startup” more than cardboard furniture.

lithium-ion batteries MPIO intros V10 touch screen-based Aza Raskin, the founder of Songza and
Humanized who was recently hired by
By Joshua Topolsky (Engadget) plans on moving towards, though it has PMP Mozilla, designed his own system of
cardboard building blocks that can be
Submitted at 3/7/2008 12:57:00 AM
suggested that air-zinc batteries could be a By Donald Melanson (Engadget) FM tuner, TV output, and support for just assembled into desks, wall dividers, and
possible solution for maintaining its about every audio and video format you cubicles for his own Chicago offices.
Filed under: Transportation dominance in the hybrid vehicle market. In Submitted at 3/7/2008 3:26:00 AM
could ask for, with Windows CE 5.0 Today, he is turning the side project into a
June the company will launch a new Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable serving as the basis for it all. No word on business and launching it as Bloxes. What
If you can believe it (and we think you division dedicated to developing VideoMPIO's many PMPs may not always pricing or availability just yet, but you can are they exactly? He explains:
can), Toyota is already hard at work on a technologies for future cell power, while turn heads, but it looks like the company catch a glimpse of it in video form by They are called Bloxes — essentially 3D
new battery system to replace its lithium- its lithium-ion vehicles will hit the roads has done alright for itself with its new V10 hitting up the link below. cardboard legos that ship flat, and fold up
ion units currently slated for use in around 2010. player, which boasts a 3-inch WQVGA in modular building blocks that are strong
upcoming models. According to a report in touch screen display and some all around enough to stand on. While they aren’t tech
Automotive News Europe, the company is [Via Autoblog] decent specs. That includes 8GB of storage Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments per se, we use them for building tables,
hoping to adopt a more advanced battery (with an SD card slot for expansion), an walls, cubicles, and desks. Both Google
for its hybrid vehicles in about 12 years as Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments and Mozilla have expressed interest in
part of its Global Vision 2020 plan. The using them in their offices. So, this may
automaker won't say what technology it well be the new thing in terms of agile
office-space deployment. Don’t like where

PollDaddy Attempts to Create Yahoo Answers for Polls a wall is? Just move it! Don’t like the way
it looks? Just rebuild it! They are cheaper
than cubicles, and much more fun.
By Mark Hendrickson (TechCrunch) has decided to set up a central directory of central directory will appeal to people who It’s interface design applied to cardboard.
Submitted at 3/7/2008 2:00:59 AM
the polls that its users have deployed want to run polls but who don’t have their See more pictures here and below:
elsewhere. These 300,000 polls will be own websites. With PollDaddy Answers, CrunchBase InformationAza
PollDaddy, a company until now focused searchable and browsable from a sub-site they can now set up profile pages and list RaskinBloxessongzaInformation provided
on distributing poll and survey widgets, is called PollDaddy Answers starting today. all of their polls there.CrunchBase by CrunchBase
taking a stab at turning its website into a As is evident from the name, PollDaddy imagine at least some of them finding it InformationPollDaddyInformation
disconcerting that they’ve lost control over Crunch Network: MobileCrunchMobile
more formidable destination. wants to leverage its widgets into creating provided by CrunchBase Gadgets and Applications, Delivered
How? Well, by doing what any company a Yahoo Answers of sorts but one focused where their polls have been published (and Crunch Network: CrunchGeardrool over
for what audiences). Only premium Daily.
that has distributed its services across the on polls. Users will be able to leave the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
web would do: by pulling them and their comments to these polls as well. PollDaddy users will have the ability to opt
associated data back home. The company How will widget publishers react? I can out of the directory. But on the flip side, a
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iPhone 2.0: Enterprise Ready. Developer Ready.


By Mark Hendrickson (TechCrunch) supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. messaging client, Epocrates demoed a drug
Submitted at 3/6/2008 2:28:49 PM
That means much better syncing with the lookup application, and SEGA played a
desktop, and not just when the iPhone is Super Monkey Ball game.
Apple made a number of major physically connected to your computer. If Application Distribution
announcements today around the iPhone.
We live blogged the event if you want to
you use Microsoft Exchange, you can now
easily set up the iPhone to work with it so Apple confirmed the rumor that iTunes
Cheers: Amazon
see all of the details. But if you want a
summary of the important parts, read on.
you enjoy push email, calendar and
contacts.
would be the only way for users to buy and
download iPhone applications. Customers To Enter Wine
Two things happened worth noting. First, Business users will also have VPN will be able to browse and search for
the iPhone is no longer just a really fun
phone/Internet device. It now supports
connectivity, certificates and identities,
enterprise WiFi, enforced security policies,
in the iPhone SDK, and it can handle both
project management and source control
applications, some of which will be
provided for free. Developers will get 70%
Business
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, meaning device configuration, and remote data management. It has a debugger that can be of the sales revenue paid monthly and with By Duncan Riley (TechCrunch)
it can hold its own against any other wipes. used remotely on a Mac (plug your iPhone no credit card fees. Restrictions, however, Submitted at 3/6/2008 3:26:07 PM
business device out there (more on that While users can only configure one into your desktop and debug from there). have been placed on the type of
below). Second, Apple gave more details Exchange account at a time, setup takes There are also three other new tools: applications that can be sold: no Amazon is to starting selling wine from its
on its previously announced software only about 20 seconds (assuming your Interface Builder, Instruments, and iPhone pornography, nothing illegal, no bandwidth site to US customers.
development kit that will allow third company already has an Exchange server Simulator. Interface Builder lets you drag- hogs, and nothing that could cause According to FT.com, Amazon is currently
parties to get their software onto the running). The iPhone applications relevant n-drop an interface together for your new “unforeseen” problems. VoIP will also not looking to recruit a senior wine buyer who
iPhone. From the demo’s shown today, to Exchange - such as Mail, Contacts, and iPhone app. Instruments is a suite of be allowed over cellular connections, just will be responsible for “the acquisition of a
developers by the thousands will be Calendar - will all retain the same look and performance analytics tools. And iPhone WiFi. massive new product selection.”
clamoring to jump on board. feel. Simulator simulates the entire API stack of Even though application development Online alcohol sales have been a difficult
The iPhone still has a tiny 0.14% market Apple has been working with Nike and the iPhone letting you test an iPhone app starts today, users will not be able to market in the United States due to the
share in the mobile world. But even so, Disney to test the new Exchange Server from your Mac. download them until June. And companies multitude of laws in relation to online
Apple CEO Steve Jobs claims that 71% of support. The SDK kit is available immediately. Go who want to distribute applications alcohol sales in different states. The
web browsing on smart phones occurs on Hi Developers, Come On In here to learn more. You have to join the internally will have to wait for Apple to market though is somewhat easier to enter
iPhones. As someone who’s used many Apple developer program ($99) to start come up with a solution for that. today than during the first web boom, with
mobile devices over the last couple of Before today the iPhone was a closed making iPhone apps. Or iPod touch apps, iFund the US Supreme Court having ruled that
years, that’s a believable statistic. Surfing platform that only gave third party for that matter, since the SDK applies to state governments may not prohibit
the web on an iPhone, with the high applications access via the browser (or that device as well. Jobs’s “one more thing” today was the residents from ordering directly from out-
resolution screen and touch interface is a though hacks). The company says that over Application Demonstrations announcement of a so-called iFund by of-state wineries in 2005.
superior experience. 1,000 iPhone specific websites have been Kleiner Perkins that will dedicate $100M Amazon invested $30 million into
iPhone: Enterprise Ready created. Both Apple and its launching partners to companies who want to develop new Wineshopper.com in 1999. The site lasted
Now Apple is opening up all of its internal demonstrated new applications for the applications for the iPhone or iPod touch. one year. Sales of wine in the United
Last summer we compared the iPhone to APIs and tools for 3rd party software iPhone. Apple demonstrated a program John Doerr called Jobs the “world’s States totaled $30 billion in
the BlackBerry 8820 on business features, developers. These include a version of the called Touch Effects that let you easily greatest entrepreneur” and “supreme 2 0 0 7 . C r u n c h B a s e
and it lost hands down. The iPhone still Cocoa programming environment called distort photos you have taken and even commander of the rebels” from onstage. InformationAmazonInformation provided
has big limitations that make it less useful Cocoa Touch that focuses on the idea of erase them by just shaking your phone See our post about the fund for more by CrunchBase
for business users, particularly battery life. touch as an input. It allows for multi-touch (think Photobooth for your handheld). A d e t a i l s . C r u n c h B a s e Crunch Network: CrunchGeardrool over
And many users cannot adapt to the iPhone events and controls, use of the built-in game called Touch Fighter was InformationAppleInformation provided by the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
touch screen, preferring physical buttons. accelerometer and camera, and other things demonstrated to show how the CrunchBase
But announcements made today make the like hierarchy views, localization, alerts, accelerometer could be used as controls. Crunch Network: CrunchBoardbecause it’s
iPhone’s core office functionality as good web views, people pickers, and image Among the launch partners, Electronic time for you to find a new Job2.0
as any other device out there. And the pickers. Arts debuted the highly-anticipated game
iPhone still has, by far, the superior There is also now a version of Xcode that Spore on the iPhone. Salesforce showed
browsing experience and user interface. can be used to build applications for the how iPhone users will be able to track
Version 2.0 of the iPhone software now iPhone. It can code completely to the APIs sales leads, AOL showed off an instant

Laszlo Expands Series C With An Extra $6.6 Million


By Duncan Riley (TechCrunch) Catalyst Partners, Sofinnova Ventures and by companies including Monster, Walmart, Laszlo to around $32.6 million.
Submitted at 3/6/2008 10:52:12 PM
Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners. T Rowe Price, Pandora, Barclays Global, (via PE Hub)
San Mateo based Laszlo is a developer of IBM, and H&R Block. Crunch Network: MobileCrunchMobile
Laszlo has raised an additional $6.6 an open-source platform for building and Laszlo said it would use the additional Gadgets and Applications, Delivered
million on its Series C round, taking the deploying Ajax applications. Laszlo money to expand the product development Daily.
round to $14.6million. Participants Webtop product is an extensible suite of collaboration applications which are used and sales distribution for Laszlo Webtop.
included WI Harper Group, General RIA and Web 2.0 communication and The new money brings total funding for
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iPhone SDK And Restrictions: Some Of TechCrunch UK & Ireland


The Details Aren’t Great. weekly news round-up
By Michael Arrington (TechCrunch) hope was that an installed application By Mike Butcher (TechCrunch) project as a moblogging site. Read more
Submitted at 3/7/2008 3:50:45 AM
could continue to run in the background Submitted at 3/7/2008 4:25:02 AM
• An Irish startup aimed at movie
and, most usefully, gather and send downloads… via kiosk. Read more
Obviously Steve Jobs and team didn’t go information from and to the web. It’s time again for the weekly round-up • Truphone fired new low VOIP call
through all the details today when they Only one iPhone application can run at a from TechCrunch UK & Ireland. charges at mobile operators. Read more
announced the availability of the iPhone time, and third-party applications never run • Social lending site Zopa is to launch in • Mobile social networking startup Trutap
SDK. It was more of a high level pass. But in the background. This means that when Japan, following its expansion to the US added Facebook to the list of social
details are what third party developers users switch to another application, answer and Italy from its UK base. Read more networks it integrates with. Read more
need to think about before jumping into the the phone, or check their email, the • A Brit university replicated itself in • O2 launched the iPhone in Ireland with a
iPhone with both feet. application they were using quits. (p. 16) Second Life. Lazy students rejoiced. Read punitive tariff compared to the UK rates.
Last year when Facebook announced This will be a serious problem for some more Irish consumers are understandably not
Facebook Platform, developers had to developers. For example, say a developer • Pikum, a UK-based online social gaming happy. Read more
decide to ignore it, build for it along with a wanted to take location information from start-up by a US entrepreneur, secured a • UK-based AllPeers shut down its
standard web site, or build exclusively for the iPhone (created via the iPhones cellular £2.6m investment from Virgin USA. Read browser-based file-sharing service,
Facebook. Venture capitalist Josh triangulation feature) and dump it into more entering the deadpool. Read more
Kopelman laid out an argument that some FireEagle to keep track of where you’ve • Video site Dailymotion hired an ex- • T-Mobile’s investment in British
developers should immediately build on would be able to launch an iPhone been. Well, that won’t work unless you Googler as its first UK MD. Read more femtocell start-up Ubiquisys seemed to
Facebook v. developing for MySpace, application that allowed users to buy songs keep the application open at all times, and • Rapid Mobile Media, a startup mobile ad suggest Google might consider an MVNO.
despite the fact that it was (and is) from the Amazon MP3 store. That’s a don’t use the iPhone for anything other platform, won £2 million ($4 million) Read more
proprietary. great question, currently without an than that. Another example: instant funding from a US VC firm. Read more • Facebook’s German version may not
Facebook Platform has its own answer. messaging applications (we saw a demo of • BlinkBox, a video ads overlay startup, impress the locals after all. Read more
venturefunds to support new startups. As Other limitations can be found in the an AIM version at the event today), can’t relaunched its site. Read more • MTV UK and MySpace created a user-
of today, so does the iPhone. developer agreement. Developers can only run in the background and collect • Video interview: Phorm CEO rejected generated TV chart show. Read more
The decision to build an iPhone application use the published APIs and only in the way messages while you are doing something ‘big brother’ allegations over its • CBS-owned Last.fm will power the
is very similar. Some developers will add Apple says they can use them. Ok, that else. Leave the application to take a phone partnership with UK ISPs to serve ads via online radio service for German newspaper
one to their existing products. Others will helps with stability. Applications also call, and it shows you offline. The bottom packet tracking. Read more Bild. Read more
go iPhone only. cannot write data anywhere except in their line is - any application that wants to • TechCrunch UK & Ireland Jobs board • Irish bloggers partied at their annual
Should we expect Kopelman to write a designated area, meaning developers can’t periodically interact with the web to do officially opened - post your jobs aimed at awards. Read more
new post, urging developers to build an modify data from any other applications. stuff, won’t be able to on a continual basis. UK and Irish startups now. Read more • New startup ProofHQ launched
iPhone application as soon as possible? But the single biggest issue we’ve found is Perhaps future versions of the iPhone, with • 7digital’s deal with Warner for DRM- collaborative document version tracking.
Maybe. But a number of bloggers and in the 100 page iPhone Human Interface additional CPU and memory resources, free tracks confirmed it as the UK music Read more
developers did some digging today into the Guidelines. It’s a public document, but you won’t have this limitation. But for now, startup to beat. Read more • Brits posted video about how Facebook
fine print, and there are some troubling must be a registered iPhone developer to whole classes of applications are useless, • Apple bought a British-owned patent was now passe. Reality check: Facebook
details. see it. We’ve embedded it below via or are significantly less useful than they crucial to the iPhone’s interface. Read grew by 712% in the UK in the last year.
Some of the limitations were announced at docstoc. otherwise would be. more Read more
the event today. VOIP services, for Users can only run one application at a If you know of or find other significant • UnLtdWorld launched a social network Crunch Network: CrunchGeardrool over
example, are basically out of luck. They time, and if they leave an application it limitations, let us know in the comments for ’social entrepreneurs’. Read more the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
can access the Internet only via wifi, not quits. That doesn’t seem like a big deal, with a link or text and we’ll add them here. • Blinkx re-launched its NowThen side
the cell networks. That’s a signal of a but it means that you can’t switch away
larger issue, though - that Apple isn’t from an application and have it continue to iPhones Human Interface Guidelines - Get
going to allow applications to threaten any do things. That’s a big issue with the more free documents
of their revenue streams from the iPhone. current support for websites on the iPhone Crunch Network: MobileCrunchMobile
Likewise, SIM unlocking is forbidden. But - as soon as you leave the browser the Gadgets and Applications, Delivered
what about other, less black and white connection is broken. With the iPhone, the Daily.
applications? John Gruber asks if Amazon

The Daily Show: March 6, 2008 - VIDEO


By Annie Wu (TV Squad) their primaries early and nobody cared? mitten/Florida wang wank. What is The Continue reading The Daily Show: March
Submitted at 3/6/2008 11:21:00 PM
Yeah, well now people totally do care and Daily Show putting their graphics 6, 2008 - VIDEO
they want do-overs. Didn't see the neck- department through? First the 9/11 sex bed
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, and-neck race coming, did ya? I know and now... this. I hope they don't show it Permalink | Email this | | Comments
Episode Reviews"Indecision 2008": some other things were discussed, but I again, because I've heard it might lead to
Remember how Michigan and Florida had can't quite remember. My brain actually fizzled out once they showed the Michigan blindness or a hairy Lansing.
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Zicasso: Have Someone Google, Microsoft Said To


Else Plan That Perfect Trip Be Preparing Bids For Yahoo Messenger
By Mark Hendrickson (TechCrunch) Updates Vista
Digg
Submitted at 3/7/2008 12:00:38 AM

Web 2.0 can be a very empowering Beta Release


By Michael Arrington (TechCrunch)
movement that cuts out middlemen and By Kristen Nicole (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/7/2008 12:20:26 AM
gives individuals the ability to perform
tasks all on their own. Want to be back to you with proposed itineraries User-generated news site Digg has been
Submitted at 3/6/2008 4:07:19 PM

philanthropic? Lend directly to an within two days. You can then compare working with influential investment bank Yahoo Messenger is moving into the free,
entrepreneur using Kiva. Worried about their offerings and decide which one to Allen & Co. (the ones that recently got PC-to-PC calling realm with its upcoming
that rash? Look it up on follow up with. Zicasso can provide this Slide a half billion dollar valuation) for a Beta release for Vista. There will be paid
OrganizedWisdom. service for free because it takes a slice of few months now, and pitching big tech and calling options as well. The most
But sometimes cutting out the middleman the commission from agents. media companies on a sale. interesting part of this integration, at least
isn’t such a great idea because they This method differs from those of other And despite a number of false starts, this visually, will likely be the WPF 3D
actually provide a valuable service, often travel guide sites like Responsible Travel time a sale looks like it might actually integration, taking full advantage of all the
derived from their expertise. Such is the and Infohub because here the travel agents happen, and soon. We hear from a source Vista-ness that’s been made available. I’m
case with most travel sites. They’ll make it do all the work for the traveler. As a result, Any sale is likely to give Microsoft an
very close to the deal that four companies option to terminate that advertising deal, not sure how much you’ll be wanting to
much easier to book flights and hotel travelers get more personalized travel are in heavy due diligence with Digg - two see the visual effects that play on your
rooms, but they won’t help you plan your packages and a better value from the which means Google isn’t valuing Digg
media/news companies, and two big based on revenue, either. But it is a big computer while you talk to someone, but I
trip much. That’s where Zicasso, a new bidding process. At the same time, travel Internet companies - Google and suppose it’s better than nothing.
site launching Monday, steps in. agents large and small have the slap in the face to Microsoft to steal Digg
Microsoft. And Google and Microsoft are away, and Google can certainly generate
Zicasso is like LendingTree (you know, opportunity to compete for customers on a on the verge of making their bids. A feature I’m a tad more excited about is
“when banks compete, you win”?) except global scale. revenue on all those page views.
Digg is prepared to take less than the $300 More as this develops, but we may be SMS integration, which will allow you to
applied to travel agents and tour operators. Zicasso also provides an online community million Allen & Co. were floating late last send text messages from Yahoo Messenger
area with forums, travel blogs, and the like. looking at a bidding war between
year. Google, our source says, will likely Microsoft and Google over Digg. Plus any on Vista to your friend’s mobile phone. At
If you want to take a vacation, Zicasso will I can see the whole service as becoming bid $200-$225 million, which Digg would least it will be free for you. The good thing
help you line up the perfect trip without the very popular with busy professionals who late comers to the table.
likely accept. Digg was founded in late 2004 and has about this option is that the end receiver
hassle of planning it yourself. All you have like to travel but don’t have the time to Microsoft is looking at a somewhat lower doesn’t have to rely on a mobile instant
to do is submit a description of where research vacations. Since time is money raised $11.3 million in
price. That makes sense, since most of f u n d i n g . C r u n c h B a s e messaging option on their phone in order
you’re looking to go (Paris? Mexico City?) for them, they should leap at the Digg’s revenue today comes from a three to chat. Some IM clients already work like
and what you’re looking to do (visit opportunity to find this help through the InformationDiggKevin RoseInformation
year advertising deal that Digg signed with provided by CrunchBase text messaging, so this isn’t an entirely
museums? ride bikes?). Zicasso will then web. Microsoft last year. That deal has revenue novel concept here, but it’s always good to
send your description to a network of 100 Crunch Network: CrunchGeardrool over Crunch Network: MobileCrunchMobile
guarantees - and Microsoft may be hesitant Gadgets and Applications, Delivered bring about more uniformity in the various
service providers, four of which will get the sexiest new gadgets and hardware. to value Digg based on revenue that they options that are out there. Also included in
Daily.
supply. the next Beta release for Vista are Mail
alerts.
TC/CG sit-down in Düsseldorf, Saturday 08/03/08 These are mostly some of the features that
we noted were missing from Yahoo
By John Biggs (TechCrunch) +16462515666. You can also Skype me Messenger’s initial Vista release, so it’s
for the next few hours on johnnybnyc. good to see that some of these expected
Submitted at 3/7/2008 4:21:48 AM
We’d love to sit down with some features are being rolled into future
Peter and I are headed to Düsseldorf gadget/tech folks in charming Düsseldorf, updates. There’s not yet a date for the next
tomorrow afternoon in preparation for our the home of the Street of Bars. release’s availability, but click here to see
flight out on Sunday. We would have Update - We will meet at 6pm at a preview version.
flown in the animal cracker box back from Friedrichskrone (Kirchfeldstr. 85, 40215 ShareThis
Hanover but after hearing about the Düsseldorf)
Hamburg flight we’d like to stick to big tomorrow, Saturday 08/03/08, and would Crunch Network: CrunchBoardbecause it’s
airplanes leaving the evil heart of hurricane like to meet, email me at john @ time for you to find a new Job2.0
Emma, not small planes flying into it. crunchgear.com or, better, SMS me at
That said, if you’re in Düsseldorf
Your Click and Print Newspaper Social Net * 13

Even If You Don’t Believe Songpull Music


in Joost, CBS Still Does Community for Singers, Userplane to Offer White
By Adam Ostrow (Mashable!) Label Video Uploading
Songwriters
Submitted at 3/6/2008 9:01:57 AM

A couple of weeks ago when Joost


to Web Publishers
By Kristen Nicole (Mashable!)
suffered some downtime, we wondered if By Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/6/2008 3:02:05 PM
anyone noticed and posed the question Submitted at 3/7/2008 2:28:50 AM
“How often do you use Joost?” in a poll. it’s going to have to free itself up.” I was one of those orchestra kids growing
The results were pretty overwhelming: up, lugging around my cello, so I’m not Userplane has announced that it will be
91% of you never use the downloadable Returning to CBS, I can already stream entirely familiar with the concept of a releasing Userplane Mediaplayer, an
Internet TV service, or if you do, use it most of their shows (as full episodes) guitarpull or a songpull. But I think I get application that Web publishers can use to
rarely. directly from CBS.com, which begs the the gist, and a new site called Songpull is provide their users with video uploading
Well, someone that probably makes a lot question of what purpose a service like looking to bring the collaborative, spirit- service. Additionally, Userplane will offer
more money than you disagrees. Joost serves. According to their own lifting efforts of songpulls to the web. publishers a revenue share on the
According to CNET’s Caroline McCarthy, marketing: “You’re the channel director, First, let’s start off with a brief description commented on, shared across other social advertising sold in videos.
CBS Interactive President Quincy Smith the boss of TV land. Slice and dice to of what a songpull is. A songpull is an networks like Facebook, and bookmarked The move follows VideoEgg’s
still believes in the downloadable service, create your own channels. Watch what you event where a group of singer/songwriters as well. The Songpull site features charts announcement that they are getting out of
though he does think it should offer a Web want, when you want.” get together and perform original songs so you can see the more popular this business. Michael Jones, CEO of
-based version. Sure, content aggregation and they’ve written in the past 30 days. participants of the community. User Userplane, said in a statement:
Like many of our readers in the comments customization is nice, and I couldn’t live What the Songpull network wants to do profiles link to the events in which they’ve “The release of Mediaplayer solidifies
of our previous post, I’m a bit confused as without it for news consumption via RSS with its website is share and promote these participated. Userplane’s brand as a complete social
to what the point of Joost is. In addition to reader. But for TV? I can already watch songpulls across the web, with videos. As This is quite a unique niche that some networking platform solution. We look
the barrier of needing to download what I want, when I want, using the decade a member of Songpull, you can initiate a could really take to, though it does require forward to assisting VideoEgg customers
software to use it, Mashable reader Shane -old technology called TiVo. And, with my songpull yourself. These are events, of a dedicated user base and a driven purpose in making a seamless and painless
noted: television, I get all of the most current course, so others can see when upcoming for its web promotion. In that sense, I’m transition to Mediaplayer.”
“Joost won’t be relevant until geo- shows – I don’t need to wait for the suits at songpulls are, put their name in the hat, slightly surprised to see a lack of “virtual While VideoEgg’s has moved towards
restrictions are lifted and everyone can Joost and the television networks to make and start working on the music they’ll be songpulls,” which is what I thought the site becoming an ad network, Userplane has
watch the same quality content no matter licensing deals to bring me old episodes of playing once they get there. Songpull is was initially about. One way in which the continued down the path of offering white
wherever they are in the world. As an Star Trek. looking for a certain format for the videos content from the songpulls themselves label community features like chat and
example, the selection of content available Call me skeptical, but I’m just not seeing that will be displayed on its site, but it’s could be better shared across the web is instant messaging. Video is a logical
for Asia-Pac is woeful, especially as Joost how Joost (and others) can create serious still up to the users to create the content with a channel or chapter format, so the addition to this business model, and the
likes to rub it in my face when they put out value for customers unless they are getting themselves. Include an interview from various clips from one event or one artist company clearly sees a big opportunity in
newsletters with all this great new content all of the shows at the same time that they each of the musicians, and the footage of can be viewed in sequential order. This migrating over VideoEgg’s publishers.
I can’t access.I know this isn’t strictly are released to everyone else – via them performing. would be particularly helpful for widgets. With YouTube now rumored to be moving
Joost’s fault as it comes down to how the television. I imagine other avenues for growth could into the white label video space as well,
content owners choose to licence the ShareThis The result is a nurturing environment that be the inclusion of sections for lessons, Userplane will want to move quickly to get
material. Still, if Joost wants me to tune in sparks creativity and helps sheet music, or other resources, though I VideoEgg’s publishers onto their platform.
more than once every couple of months, singers/songwriters finish their songs. do see that Songpull will be adding an e- Userplane was purchased by AOL in 2006.
Online, it’s a video network for sharing commerce arm to its site in the near future. ShareThis
these events. Clips can be rated and ShareThis

Amazon to Sell Wine: Good for Niche Networks?


By Kristen Nicole (Mashable!) Seattle, Amazon will be trying out wine sense for Amazon, especially as the retailer
Submitted at 3/6/2008 11:06:23 AM
and beer sales with its fresh grocery looks to expand the products it’s able to
delivery service called Amazon Fresh. sell both online and offline. This could also
Amazon is looking to get heavy into Amazon had already attempted to be seen as an opportunity for wine-oriented
another market: selling wine. The large penetrate this market with online Amazon - everything but wine. But thanks niche networks, on the retail and social
online retailer already has a pretty vast distribution having invested $30 million in to a 2005 Supreme Court ruling that has ends, as third parties could leverage
product selection in its grocery aisle, and Wineshopper back in 1999, though the site eased th restrictions of shipping by Amazon wine reviews, participate in
adding wine to this section will bring in a didn’t make it past the bubble. As The vineyards, online wine retail has been able affiliate programs, etc.
lot more money for Amazon, reports The Financial Times also notes, Wine.com to grow in a much more fruitful manner. ShareThis
Financial Times. In its hometown of already distributes products through Moving into the wine world makes a lot of
14 Social Net * Your Click and Print Newspaper

PollDaddy Answers: Mix.com - The Worst Usage of a Good


Shareable Research for All Domain Name Ever
By Kristen Nicole (Mashable!) By Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/6/2008 9:35:01 PM Submitted at 3/6/2008 8:49:30 PM

PollDaddy has emerged as a slick polling This may be old as hell or even widely
service with pretty widgets, and has since known, but I had to share. I’ve just
grown to acquire a reported 300,000 polls accidentally stumbled onto mix.com (yes, I
responded to the poll. wanted mixx.com). Nice domain name,
since its launch last year. What to do with In some sense, the comments left by users
all that data? Make it searchable. This is eh? Worth a couple hundred thousand
PollDaddy’s attempt to make a Yahoo may be more valuable then the poll’s bucks just by itself by my very rough
Answers competitor, and this is even results, depending on the nature of the estimates; possibly millions.
evident in the new feature’s name: search query. If that’s ever the case with So, what do you do if you own such a
PollDaddy Answers, then it’s a good thing domain name? You create some good
PollDaddy Answers. But instead of users that comments and profile links will be
asking open-ended questions and getting a service, right? Sell it to AOL (they love
thread of responses like a forum, part of the search directory for this new buying good domain names and then doing
PollDaddy of course focuses on polls. feature. nothing with them, see wow.com)? Or at
All of the site’s polls will be made If the launching of PollDaddy Answers the very least you slap some ads for
wasn’t enough, here are a few more Guild of America.” Two links to some Actually, I’m just kidding, the thing is
searchable. Through this major new cocktail mixing up there and earn yourself CDs on Barnes and Noble, and a very short worthless, but I’ll save you the trouble of
feature, PollDaddy users will have their announcements from PollDaddy: Scott some coffee money.
Rafer, founder of MyBlogLog and explanation of “How To Unlock A paying the hosting fees for a hundred
own profile page with links to all of their But no. Laides and gentleman, I present to Password Protected Panavision HDW- bucks and a sixpack.
polls, and each poll will have its own Lookery, has become an adviser to you, mix-dot-com:
PollDaddy, and the company will also be F900 Camera.”
“profile page” as well, with comments, launching its MySpace Open Social Now, maybe in some parallel universe this A comment on this post counts as an entry
results, and information about the creator. You’ve got to be kidding me. What do we is a great collection of stuff to have on a in our Mashable Rocks contest!
polling application in the coming week. I have here? A photo of a girl in a bunny
imagine this will be a hit with the domain such as mix.com, but the real ShareThis
What’s interesting about this is that it can costume, holding a tray, with two fire world is screaming: for God’s sake, man,
be used, in a larger sense, as a research MySpace crowd. For the developers out extinguishers in the background. A Daffy
there, PollDaddy is also announcing a you’re losing a lot of effin’ money with
tool for those that need results for certain Duck effigy, hung on a Christmas tree. A every second you keep this crap on there!
private API offering that’s being integrated badge that says “We support the Writers
questions and can turn to PollDaddy’s with SproutBuilder and Seesmic. That
existing data. Unfortunately, the most use
others will get out of this, for the time
being, is the ability to use these polls for
integration should prove to offer some
interesting products as well. MashMeet DC REMIX Recap, Thank
their own use, as the data collected through
PollDaddy is rather basic. There’s no
ShareThis
You and Winners
demographic data on the users that By Adam Hirsch (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/6/2008 11:59:08 AM

No More Military Base Mapping, Says Pentagon Last night was our MashMeet DC Remix -
an epic success by all accounts, including
By Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) that the filming was a mistake. “It is that of The Washington Post! A final
Submitted at 3/6/2008 11:27:23 PM
against our policy to request access to round of “Thank Yous” to our gracious
military bases for the purpose of capturing hosts Ogilvy PR, our streaming provider
AP reports that the Pentagon has banned imagery in Street View,” he said. The Janmedia, and our presenters Lumifi,
Google from making detailed street level imagery that was causing trouble for the Kluster, Voxant, Mixx, Searchles, and
maps of US military bases. Reason? US military apparently showed the finally, to everyone who came - thank you!
Images of Fort Sam Houston base in Texas location of the guards and other intricate And now, here are some of the sights and
ended up on Google Maps. The vantage details that shouldn’t be public; according sounds of last night’s MashMeet DC
point is probably different, but I’m quite to Google, it was promptly removed from REMIX:
sure that this is the base in question. BTW, the site. Are you sure, guys? I can still More photos here, here, and here. Link
Courtesy of Searchles, video of our yours up in the comments!
if I may digress take a stab at ‘traditional’ virtually drive around that base quite presenters:
journalism, which I’m still half part of, it’s article with imagery. Score 1 for the “old” comfortably.
funny how nomajor news site took the time media) ShareThis (more…)
Team Mashable: Adam Ostrow, Pete ShareThis
to find the link and the image. (*update: Cashmore, Mark Hopkins, Adam
apologies to BBC, they updated their Larry Yu, a spokesman for Google said
HirschPete with Aaron BrazellAttendees
attentively watch one of our presenters
Your Click and Print Newspaper TV * 15

The Young & the Restless American Idol: Top 12 Revealed


By Jason Hughes (TV Squad)
reaches 19 years as #1 Submitted at 3/6/2008 2:00:00 PM

By Allison Waldman (TV Squad) Filed under: American Idol, Reviewcaps,


Submitted at 3/7/2008 12:03:00 AM
Contestants, Alumni, Performances,
Episode Reviews(S07E19) Thank god it's
Filed under: Daytime, Celebrities, Ratings, the end of three-times-a-week Idol.
EmmysFor one thousand weeks -- that's 19 Tonight, we lost four more contestants to
years -- CBS's daytime drama The Young the ether and said hello to our Top 12. It's
& the Restless has been number in the been a long road coming, and while I can't
Nielsens, the highest-rated soap on the air. say I agree 100% with the Top 12, I will
Back in December 1988, when this streak agree that most of the contestants in it
started, the number one show in prime time deserve to be there.
was The Cosby Show. The number one
song was "Faith" by George Michael (do
you hear that, Eli Stone?). And Ronald
Honestly, I think the Idol team
accomplished their goal of creating the
Slurm: It's highly
Reagan was winding up his second term as
President. In other words, it was a
most talented Top 12 in Idol history. Say
what you want about their professional
point (I know some of you are very certain
you know who it will be)? Can you even addictive! And ...
predict the Top 12?
looooong time ago. pedigree and the lack of true amateurs in
this group because in the end it won't Continue reading American Idol: Top 12
Revealed
real?
Of course, this being a soap, not much has Katherine Chancellor. And Genoa City, really matter. What they will bring is a By Brad Trechak (TV Squad)
changed on Y&R in nearly 20 years. Wisconsin (yes, really, Wisconsin!) is the better more consistent product to the
Victor Newman (Eric Braeden) is still the center of the universe for these characters. screen. Sure there's early favorites, but Permalink | Email this | | Comments Submitted at 3/6/2008 12:34:00 PM

ruthless scion involved in an on-again, off- Continue reading The Young & the who can honestly predict the winner at this Filed under: Industry, OpEd,
again marriage/love story with Nikki Restless reaches 19 years as #1 FuturamaAccording to Trademork.com,
(Melody Thomas Scott). Jill (Jess Walton)
is still a social-climbing vixen. Brad Permalink | Email this | | Comments
Seinfeld ready for a new sitcom? Twentieth Century Fox has trademarked
the word "Slurm". For those who are
Carlton (Don Diamont) has graduated from By Allison Waldman (TV Squad) unaware, Slurm is the highly addictive
hot pool boy to hot corporate executive. Submitted at 3/7/2008 3:22:00 AM beverage used in Futuramathat comes out
Jeanne Cooper is still playing grande dame of a giant worm's butt.
Filed under: Curb Your Enthusiasm,
Lipstick Jungle: Chapter Five: CelebritiesRemember last October when
Jerry Seinfeld was all over NBC promoting
The exact trademark relates to "carbonated
and non-carbonated soft drinks; fruit
Bee Movie? Well, maybe there was more
Dressed to Kill going on with Jerry and the Peacock
people than just honey-related promos.
drinks; fruit juices; mineral and aerated
water; bottled drinking water; energy
drinks; syrups and powders for making soft
By Kristin Sample (TV Squad) PageSix.com is reporting today that Jerry drinks and other beverages, namely soft
Submitted at 3/6/2008 11:42:00 PM Seinfeld is in talks with NBC for a new drinks, fruit drinks and tea; coffee-flavored
series. soft drinks; Ramune (Japanese soda pops);
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews,
Lipstick Jungle(S01E05) Well, I am Squared? Seinfeld Deux? powders used in the preparation of isotonic
You have to assume that if there's truth to sports drinks and sports beverages".
certainly enjoying Lipstick Jungle more this, the network is probably bending over Continue reading Seinfeld ready for a new
than Cashmere Mafia. I like it so much that sitcom? Continue reading Slurm: It's highly
backwards to secure a new Seinfeld. Heck, addictive! And ... real?
I jumped at the opportunity to fill in for if Jerry wanted to do a series about a
Isabelle and review this week's episode. forensic scientist who also does comedy on Permalink | Email this | | Comments
Permalink | Email this | | Comments
the side, they'd greenlight that, too! Will
Of course, lots of people expected the two they call it Seinfeld Redux? Seinfeld
shows to be almost the same (just different
nights and channels). And the shows do
have similarities: big stars with big
paychecks (Lucy Liu, Brooke Shields), Okay, enough preamble. After the jump,
female characters in powerful jobs, stupid I'll talk about "Chapter Five: Dressed to
titles, etc. But as I sat through the first few Kill," I promise.
episodes of Lipstick Jungle, I knew it Continue reading Lipstick Jungle: Chapter
would be a much more gratifying show. LJ Five: Dressed to Kill
is nowhere near Sex and the City or
Desperate Housewives, but it certainly has Permalink | Email this | | Comments
potential.
16 TV * Movies Your Click and Print Newspaper
Is Alicia Silverstone the mystery girl on
How I Met Your Mother?
By Allison Waldman (TV Squad)
Submitted at 3/7/2008 1:02:00 AM

Filed under: How I Met Your Mother,


CastingMichael Ausiello at TVGuide.com
has been playing with his calculator, or
maybe it was an abacus. Anyway, Mike
has used some oh-so-creative math to add
two and two together to get a major
revelation on a CBS sitcom. Okay, here's
the scoop. Mr. Ausiello has gotten an
exclusive casting tidbit from How I Met
Review: Miss
Continue reading Is Alicia Silverstone the
Your Mother. mystery girl on How I Met Your Mother? Pettigrew Lives
Alicia Silverstone, star of Clueless on the
big screen, Miss Match on the small, has
been signed for a series of episodes, a mini
Permalink | Email this | | Comments
for a Day
-arc. By James Rocchi (Cinematical)
Submitted at 3/7/2008 2:02:00 AM

Filed under: Comedy, Romance, New


Releases, Theatrical Reviews, Focus
Survivor Micronesia: He's a Ball of Goo! Features

By Jackie Schnoop (TV Squad) wrong. As promised, the tribes were mixed Early in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day,
up and one challenge went beyond brutal. the title heroine played by Frances
Submitted at 3/6/2008 3:14:00 PM McDormand, a down-on-her luck
Schoolyard picks and wounded people?
Filed under: OpEd, Survivor, Episode Now, there's a good episode! "governess of last resort" who keeps
Reviews getting dismissed by huffy high-class
(S16E05) "Chickens have a pecking order. %Gallery-17863% London employers, strolls the streets,
They peck at the weakest until they kill Continue reading Survivor Micronesia: dejected and down. On the soundtrack? A
them. It's just like Survivor." - Chet He's a Ball of Goo! jazzy, swinging version of the Depression-
era song "Brother, Can You Spare a
The promos this week made this seem like Permalink | Email this | | Comments
a show not to miss and they didn't steer us

Subtle Subtitles
By Keith McDuffee (TV Squad)
Submitted at 3/7/2008 1:23:00 AM
Last contest's winner: Robyn
Filed under: Subtle SubtitlesWelcome to This week, a scene from the latest episode
Subtle Subtitles. For those of you who are of Breaking Bad ...
Lost: The Other Woman uninitiated to the purpose of this feature,
we're asking you to come up with your
Continue reading Subtle Subtitles
By Erin Martell (TV Squad) Ben than the intriguing Dr. Burke. We also the week. Winners are announced in the
funniest quote or description for what's following Friday's contest. Permalink | Email this | | Comments
Submitted at 3/6/2008 6:00:00 PM
got some significant answers about who's going on in the screen grab we choose for
behind the freighter mission--from Ben, of
Filed under: OpEd, Lost, Episode Reviews course. Perhaps the only thing Ben doesn't
know is how to have a healthy romantic
(S04E06) I didn't think it was possible, but relationship.
the Lostwriters actually found a way to %Gallery-17861%
make Ben creepier. All they had to do was Continue reading Lost: The Other Woman
add a "lovesick stalker" dimension to his
personality. For a Juliet-centric episode, it Permalink | Email this | | Comments
seemed like we learned a lot more about
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REVIEW:
continued from page 16
Dime?" And that sweet-sour mix of bright
horns and sad sentiments, swinging tempos Miss Pettigrew is not, in fact, a social
and bleak prospects, in many ways sets the secretary; however, she's prepared to do
tone for the film. Adapting Winifred whatever is required. And so, in her way,
Watson's 1939 novel, Miss Pettigrew Lives is Delysia; the luxurious flat where she
for a Day is a nearly perfect piece of receives Miss Pettigrew is, it turns out, not
entertainment for grownups, as Miss hers. Delysia is staying there as the lover
Pettigrew's desperation inspires her to of nightclub owner Nick (Mark Strong),
fake, fib and flail her way into a job as the which makes it all the more necessary that
social secretary to American actress/singer Miss Pettigrew help get Delysia's
Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams), a young overnight guest Phil (Tom Payne) -- son of
woman in severe need of professional the producer of a show Delysia hopes to
assistance and adult supervision. It's fairly land the lead in -- out the door as swiftly as
easy to predict the rough curves of Miss possible before Nick returns. Miss
Pettigrew's plot within moments of Pettigrew is mortified, but hardly
meeting the leads -- Miss Pettigrew will paralyzed, and she swiftly takes charge of
gain joy and confidence from her exposure
to Ms. Lafosse, while Ms. Lafosse will
matters. And, in the tradition of British
farce, as soon as that crisis is averted,
Could a 'Sopranos' Movie
acquire wisdom and character from Miss another is ready to take its place. ... Be Coming? One Strip
Pettigrew's example -- but the delights of Continue reading Review: Miss Pettigrew Club Owner May Know ...
this film are in the details, and everyone Lives for a DayPermalink | Email this |
involved shapes this seemingly- Comments By James Rocchi (Cinematical)
featherweight entertainment with expert, Filed under:
Submitted Deals,
at 3/7/2008 RumorMonger,
5:02:00 AM
steady hands.

Review: The Bank Job John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph are in
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
(Cinematical) Jason Statham leads the huge cast as Terry,
Submitted at 3/7/2008 1:02:00 AM

Filed under: New Releases, Lionsgate


a small time London hustler deep in debt,
married with kids, and running a crooked
auto shop -- just till he gets back on his
Love
Films, Theatrical Reviews, New in feet. It's 1971 and an old friend, Martine By Jessica Barnes (Cinematical) Krasinski and Rudolph will play an
Theaters Love (Saffron Burrows), who has been Submitted at 3/7/2008 2:32:00 AM
expectant couple traveling around the
working as a model, shows up with a country looking for a place to settle down
How many heist movies have been made Filed under: Comedy, Romance, Casting, and start a family.
proposition. She is dating a secret agent Scripts, Focus FeaturesJohn Krasinski has
in the past 100 years? Probably not as who told her about a bank; the nearby tube
many as hit man movies or serial killer trains have been setting off the alarms, so had a bit of a rough start transitioning his If you have ever read anything written by
movies, but nevertheless quite a few. they're being replaced, and the bank will be TV career into a movie career. For starters, Eggers or the McSweeney's 'brand' then
Happily, there's always room for one more, without alarms for a time. Plus, if they hit have you seen License to Wed? Luckily you know that this slight premise is just the
if it's a good one, and Roger Donaldson's for my favorite office drone, his upcoming kind of story you would expect. Knowing
the safe deposit boxes, there will be no projects look a lot more promising. Variety
The Bank Job is indeed a good one. way to trace the crime, based on the theory Egger's penchant for personal touches, I'm
Moreover, I'd venture to say that it that most people won't want to disclose reports that Krasinski, SNL's Maya sure some of the details of his life with his
deserves to be called a crackerjack heist what it was they wanted to keep safe. Rudolph, and Cheryl Hines have signed to own family found their way into the script.
movie. Donaldson is about as far from a Terry rounds up a couple of his mates and star in Sam Mendes' new untitled comedy. The production is expected to start
cinematic auteur as a director can get -- his News of the film first appeared back in shooting this April in Connecticut, and the
launches his scheme. They rent a storefront January, and just over a month later, three
disparate credits include The Bounty a couple of doors down from the bank, Vendela Vida (author of Girls of the Verge film is set for release in 2009.
(1984), Cocktail (1988), Species (1995), tunnel underground and re-surface inside top-notch comedians have signed on for and Egger's wife) wrote the script for the Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Thirteen Days (2000), The Recruit (2003) the vault. the film. That has got to be a good sign, romantic comedy. Eggers made his name
and The World's Fastest Indian (2005) -- right? with his memoir, Heartbreaking Work of
but that's where thirty years of experience Staggering Genius, but is still relatively
and skill come in. The Bank Job takes a Celebrity novelist Dave Eggers and new to the screenwriting trade. In the film,
fairly complex story with multiple players Continue reading Review: The Bank
on multiple sides, and presents it cleanly, JobPermalink | Email this | Comments
briskly and excitingly.
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COULD
The Conflicted General Ross - continued from page 17
Fandom, Remakes and SequelsI don't film until you realize that Satin Dolls also
- New 'Incredible Hulk' Photo spend a lot of time imagining the business
concerns of strip club owners. I'm sure
they involve many questions of labor
served as the Bada Bing on The Sopranos.
Nick D'Urso, manager of Satin Dolls,
relates in the piece how his planned
By Elisabeth Rappe (Cinematical) relations, plus the question of how warm renovations might be held off so as to
Submitted at 3/7/2008 4:02:00 AM you have to keep the place so that the preserve the, uh, Bing-ness of the location:
Filed under: Interviews, goosebump factor is low -- but one New "I got an inside tip that they're going to do
Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Jersey club manager's long-term business a movie, so I don't want to make any major
Sequels, ImagesHere's a little something to decisions may have given us the heads-up changes ... I'm not going to reveal my
keep you Hulk fans happy until the trailer on a well-loved HBO series heading to the sources, but we got a call from somebody
debuts at ShoWest next week. (And big screen. (working) on the script."
hopefully, is posted online shortly after. I
can't believe this comes out June 13th, and The good people at /Film are linking to a
we haven't even seen a teaser.) story at the Times Herald-Record Continue reading Could a 'Sopranos'
explaining how the manager of the Satin Movie Be Coming? One Strip Club Owner
Superhero Hype, by way of a Russian film Dolls gentleman's club recently received a May Know ...Permalink | Email this |
site, has a big high-res still of William phone request asking him to hold off on Comments
Hurt as General Ross, which you can see some upcoming renovations -- which may
part of on the right. It's not the most seem less than germane to the world of
exciting photo on the planet, but hey -- it's
a break in the Wolverine stills for you!

The Calgary Herald also did a great


recognizes that it's more developed than
his own."
Aaron Eckhart Talks Up Two
interview with Hurt to discuss his new film
Vantage Point, but he had just as much to
say about The Incredible Hulk. While
And not only is he a fan of the Hulk
comics -- after he accepted the role, he
Face!
found out it was the favorite comic series By Elisabeth Rappe (Cinematical) during the course of The Dark Knight. But
sworn to secrecy about the film, he still has of his children. Who knew that kind of my feeling from this interview is that Two-
a good deal to say about his role as the Submitted at 3/7/2008 1:32:00 AM
thing was passed on in the Face might be the villain left standing by
General -- namely, he wishes people would genetics?Permalink | Email this | Filed under: Action, Warner Brothers, film's end. Nothing here confirms those
stop labeling him as a villain. "He wants Comments F a n d o m , I n t e r v i e w s , early rumors that, despite all we've seen of
Hulk's power but is humiliated by Hulk's Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and the Joker thus far, Two-Face is actually the
conscience: he actually sees and SequelsGotham City is starting to rumble main villain of this film.
again -- and it is all centered around a
Rachel McAdams Wants to Be The Black Orchid certain D.A. This follows rumors that the new trailer
(which is supposed to premiere with
By Elisabeth Rappe (Cinematical) lost roles in Iron Man, Fantastic Four, and While Harvey Dent hasn't yet updated his 10,000 B.C. last I heard) will be entirely
Submitted at 3/7/2008 1:02:00 AM
Batman Begins. That's simply not fair. An site, Aaron Eckhart has been busy. He Harvey Dent oriented. Will we see Two-
actress who can name drop Neil Gaiman (I gave an exclusive interview to Wizard Face in that, or just revealed through viral
Filed under: Fandom, Interviews, bet Gwyenth Paltrow can't) deserves a Magazine full of character goodness. marketing? I hope they follow the pattern
Comic/Superhero/GeekSee, world! really cool superheroine. Hopefully, Those looking to remain pure before the they set with the Joker, and reveal Two-
Perfectly normal, lovely girls read comic someone will take up her Black Orchid film might want to avoid it, as he gives Face via Harvey Dent's site.
books. suggestion and cast her in the lead. some vital character bits away.
Rachel McAdams spoke to MTV recently, Mostly, I just want a girl to be rewarded He does confirm what the Internet knew all Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
and revealed that she's quite fond of for her geekery. Then we can all have along -- Harvey will become Two-Face
comics and graphic novels. More than that, hope! McAdams, you must be a pioneer
she wants to be the Black Orchid. "It's a for us all.
really interesting character," the actress
said. "She's a superhero that's a flower. I She knows her stuff, too. She wants Neil
don't know if that would work or the Gaiman's 1988 run to be adapted.
audiences would be interested in that, but
she was kind of cool." Reportedly, McAdams has auditioned and Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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'8 Simple Rules' For Marrying Indiana Jones Leaps Into Danger
on the Big Screen -- New Photo!
By Elisabeth Rappe (Cinematical)
By Monika Bartyzel (Cinematical)
Submitted at 3/7/2008 3:32:00 AM
Submitted at 3/7/2008 4:32:00 AM
Filed under: Action, Classics, Steven
Filed under: Comedy, Romance, Deals, Spielberg, Remakes and Sequels,
ScriptsIt might seem like this latest bit of ImagesEntertainment Weekly has got their
news is coming out of a rekindled flame. hands on an Indiana Jones and the
John Ritter has been in the news a lot Kingdom of the Crystal Skull exclusive.
lately, as his family is suing for wrongful (It's flash, so we can't post it here -- plus
death, and you can read about it here. So they probably would be annoyed. Sorry!)
now we're getting more simple rules, but It's a big action shot, with all the usual
they're coming from W. Bruce Cameron's suspects. Marion is driving, Indy is about
next book, which hits shelves on April 8 -- to go punch some Soviets, and his son is
8 Simple Rules for Marrying My right behind him. I hope he has a good
Daughter: And Other Reasonable Advice reason for trying to jump into the other
from the Father of the Bride (Not that vehicle so lightly armed.
Anyone is Paying Attention).
Entertainment Weekly is being very polite
The Hollywood Reporter posts that this and buying into the Lucas-Spielberg
new book is already getting the big-screen pretense that we don't already know who
treatment with the help of The Devil after the first set of rules -- now he is "No, son. We called the dog Mutt!!"
divorced and dealing not only with a Shia LaBeouf is the genetic combination "I've got a lot of fond memories of that
Wears Prada producer Wendy Finerman. of. So they call "[the] new character" by
The book has been optioned by 26 Films, younger girlfriend, but two daughters who dog!"
get engaged at the same time. Not much his name.
and Cameron will adapt it with co-writer
Cathryn Michon. This should be old hat for more is said on Amazon, except that it's Anyway, enjoy the picture. I think it's very
only one daughter, so I wonder if the I am bewildered as to how I missed the evocative of Raiders.Permalink | Email this
the writer, as he also wrote 17 episodes of name of Shia LaBeouf's character. Mutt?
the television show. young girlfriend and second daughter will | Comments
be cinematic plot devices? Stay tuned! Mutt Williams? I thought I had stayed on
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments top of this, but that slipped right by.
It looks like things didn't go well for dad

Luke Wilson Gets 'Tenure'


By Monika Bartyzel (Cinematical) competes for tenure with an impressive
Submitted at 3/7/2008 3:02:00 AM
new female colleague." The female shoes
haven't been filled yet, but David
Filed under: Comedy, CastingSometimes I Koechner has signed on to play "Wilson's
really wonder about Luke Wilson. He'll do anthropology prof sidekick."
a lot of great films, and mix them with a
lot of schlock, many of which don't fall This is part of Blowtorch's initiative to put
under the paycheck defense. Really -- is out "low-budget, youth-oriented movies,"
there any reason, whatsoever, for him to co so I think it's safe to presume that this will
-star in Blonde Ambition? He's lucky that have a lot of young humor in it. This isn't
he's so good in the good stuff, and your stodgy university comedy. Production
hopefully his next project will be just that. comedy -- Tenure. Mike Million makes his begins next month in Philly.
feature writing and directorial debut with Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Wiping off the blonde idiocy, Variety the project, which has Wilson playing a
reports that Wilson has signed on to star in "beleaguered college professor who
Blowtorch Entertainment's new college

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