I just received an invitation to “the industry’s first BlogWorld and New Media Expo.” Press credentials are open only to accredited members of the professional media and will require submission of articles and verification that you intend to write for a publication on the conference. – Stephen Wellman, InformationWeek
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Today in Moronia
- Gail Collins: ‘Instantly, like a daffodil in spring, a new committee popped up’
- Extract of Chinese herb kudzu reduces alcohol consumption
- California school food standards change teens eating habits for the better
- New male birth control procedure said to be 100% effective, completely reversible
- Video of police fatally beating homeless man causes spectators to leave courtroom
- Gene Weingarten is alarmed at how cheap he’d sell his moral integrity
- Plants use perfume to attract beneficial bacteria to their roots
- Privatized prison labor competes with regular business at 93 cents a day
- There is no invisible hand
- Does Mitt Romney support paid sick days for working mothers?
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Blogging convention restricts media passes to traditional press
Psychiatric clinic releases Russian activist after 46 days
A member of an opposition group led by the former chess champion Garry Kasparov was released Monday from a psychiatric clinic after being held against her will for 46 days, a spokeswoman for the group said.
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AP/MTV Poll: Family ties key to youth happiness
What makes a young person happy? Spending time with family was the top answer among 1,280 people ages 13 through 24 surveyed on the nature of happiness by The Associated Press and MTV. The open-ended question drew that response from one in five respondents. Spending time with friends scored next on the happiness meter,...
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Nobel Prize Winner Rigoberta Menchu denies discrimination at Cancun hotel
Latina.com — A Cancun radio journalist reported Tuesday that he’d seen the Nobel Peace Prize winner forcibly removed from the five-star Fiesta Americana Coral Beach hotel when staff thought she was a local peddler woman, due to the traditional Maya clothing she wears. But then, Menchu and her sister Anita said none of it...
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Just how crazy does it get?
The Fark headline: “State provides a self-medicating morphine pump for inmate in a wheelchair with MS who was sentenced to 25 years for illegally possessing 100 Percocets that he was using to self-medicate his chronic pain.” Fortunately, it seems that his clemency petition is now on the fast-track. The full story.
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