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Five-a-day has little impact on cancer, study finds
Eating more fruit and vegetables has only a modest effect on protecting against cancer, a study into the link between diet and disease has found. (bbc)

Ars Technica reviews the iPad
The iPad isn’t a big iPod touch—an iPod touch is a miniature iPad that restricts the full multitouch experience in exchange for offering greater portability. With the iPad, in contrast, you get multitouch the way it was meant to be done. (ars technica)

Internet Surpasses TV as Most Essential Media
When asked which they would choose if they must, never again watching television or never again accessing the internet, slightly more people chose TV as the medium they would eliminate. Forty-nine percent of respondents chose to eliminate TV, compared to just more than 48% who said they would get rid of the internet. (marketing charts)

Tawkon Measures The Radiation Spewing From Your iPhone. No Wonder Apple Doesn’t Approve It.
Here we go again . . . Apple App Store Fail No. 5102928. A few weeks ago stealth Israeli startup Tawkon gave me a sneak-peak developer build of what I believe is the most important app on my iPhone. What does it do? It analyzes the cellular radiation your iPhone emits at any given moment, at any given location, whether in standby mode, or within a call. (tech crunch)

The Growing Power Of The Sugar Pill
The other day I came across a fake news story on the Internet. It was a send-up of the pharmaceutical industry which featured a bunch of drug industry executives wringing their hands in despair: placebo pills, the fake news story reported, were getting stronger, what was a drug executive to do? (npr)

‘Catcher in the Rye’ author J.D. Salinger dies
Enraged by all the “phonies” who make “me so depressed I go crazy,” Holden soon became American literature’s most famous anti-hero since Huckleberry Finn. The novel’s sales are astonishing — more than 60 million copies worldwide — and its impact incalculable. Decades after publication, the book remains a defining expression of that most American of dreams — to never grow up. (msnbc)

Holden Caulfield
by ~alexaaaaa. (deviantart)

Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein and Alice Walker Reflect on the Death of Howard Zinn
Remembering the lifelong dissident and peace activist and historian, who joined many of the struggles for social justice over the past fifty years. (alternet)

Miramax Dies: Rest in Peace
Over 31 years, the movie company that for most of its existence was led by founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein brought the public enduring stories that plumbed the depths of human emotion (“My Left Foot”) and pushed the boundaries of cultural barriers (“Reservoir Dogs”). (thewrap)

Quentin Tarantino’s filmography in minimalist poster form!!
The following are are set of minimalist art posters he created from the Tarantino’s filmography, featuring quirky, left-field homages and/or memorable moments from each of his seven movies. (obsessesdwithfilm)

Australia is named the most sinful nation on earth
While America is dominated by gluttony and greed, South Africa by wrath and Japan and South Korea by their lustful natures, Australians are the most envious people on the planet. (heraldsun)

Why Apple Is Sticking With AT&T
Experts cite three main reasons: the desire for both companies to preserve their alliance, AT&T’s Wi-Fi assets and network readiness. (forbes)

Hot Chicks with Stormtroopers
“I’m a cosplay photographer so I see alot of stormtroopers (I go to 15+ cons a year, and I used to be in the 501st). These were some of my favourites though, because one of them squeezed my ass and told me he wanted to take me back to the Death Star.” (hotchickswithstormtroopers)

Beware Wall Street: Americans Love Obama’s TARP Tax
The fee on banks to pay for the financial bail out has solid popular support. The poll of 800 likely voters showed that 57% of respondents supported the tax when the pollster described it as a “responsibility fee” that will “discourage big bonus payouts and ensure the big banks that caused the crisis pay for the bailout.” (wsj)

Obama Takes Crack At GOP For Not Applauding Tax Cuts
A Democratic strategist quite pleased with the chilly Republican reception emailed the Huffington Post the following: “Footage of every Republican sitting when Obama talked about bank tax is going straight into every 2010 ad.” (huffingtonpost)

Let the uninsured die
Republicans have decided that defeating Obama is more important than passing healthcare. (salon)

Morgan Dana Harrington: Missing Virginia Tech Student’s Body Found on Farm
The Virginia Tech student last seen on October 17 when she went missing at a Metallica concert, has apparently been found. A farmer checking his fences in a hay field near Charlottesville made the discovery yesterday. (truecrime)

iPad About
Stephen Fry gets it right, again: In the future, when it has two cameras for fully featured video conferencing, GPS and who knows what else built in (1080 HD TV reception and recording and nano projection, for example) and when the iBook store has recorded its 100 millionth download and the thousands of accessories and peripherals that have invented uses for iPad that we simply can’t now imagine – when that has happened it will all have seemed so natural and inevitable that today’s nay-sayers and sceptics will have forgotten that they ever doubted its potential. (stephenfry)

Apple fans in Boston excited for iPad
But how can you tell when they’re saying “iPad” or “iPod?” (myfoxboston)

Trapdoor, secret room found in Milton house
Workers were pulling up the carpet at the house on Nix Road to install a hardwood floor when they stumbled across a plywood trapdoor, according to a Milton Police report. Stairs underneath the trapdoor led to a room behind a walled-off portion of the basement. (ajc)

Hugh Hefner: Life & Times
Hugh Hefner basks in his succes in 1966 Britain. The Chicago-born Army vet started his empire after he left a copywriting job at Esquire magazine in 1952 because they wouldn’t give him a $5 raise. (life)

Recession means tough times for sex workers
The recession has seen the street price of oral sex, the most common service, plummet from $60 last fall to $20 today. “Full service” involving intercourse has dropped from $150 to $80. (thestar)

You’re an idiot of the 33rd degree
In November of 1905, an enraged Mark Twain sent this superb letter to J. H. Todd, a patent medicine salesman who had just attempted to sell bogus medicine to the author by way of a letter and leaflet delivered to his home. (lettersofnote)

John Travolta Flies Rations, Scientology Ministers Into Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — John Travolta has landed his own jet in Haiti carrying relief supplies and a team including doctors and Scientology ministers. The 55-year-old actor flew the Boeing 707 from Florida on Monday carrying 4 tons of ready-to-eat military rations and medical supplies for earthquake victims. (huffingtonpost)

Ozone Hole Healing Could Cause Further Climate Warming
The Antarctic ozone hole was once regarded as one of the biggest environmental threats, but the discovery of a previously undiscovered feedback shows that it has instead helped to shield this region from carbon-induced warming over the past two decades. (sciencedaily)

Guardian editor hits back at paywalls
Shutting newspaper industry off from openness of web risks ‘sleepwalk into oblivion’, argues Alan Rusbridger. (guardian)

The iState of the Union
Steve Jobs delivers the annual presidential address. (slate)

Could These Be Pictures of the Real Apple Tablet?
New pictures claiming to be the Apple Tablet have surfaced, and they’re the most realistic ones we’ve seen yet. (mashable)

I just pre-ordered the new Apple Tablet
Pretty psyched. (tirania.org)

The Future of the Printed Book?
Publishers around the world worry a lot about the future of the printed book. Or, for that matter, the future of the newspaper. But, look no further because here is the answer.

China To Launch Space Station in 2010 or 2011
China is planning to launch their own space station, named Tiangong, by the end of 2010 or beginning of 2011. There have been a few instances where information about the station surfaces briefly over the past few years about the development of the space station. Specific details on the program are not being release in large doses by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA), so the development of the station is somewhat shrouded in mystery. (universetoday)

Air France may bar obese passengers from flights
Air France has revealed it may prevent obese economy passengers from boarding its planes for “safety reasons.” (bbc)

Genome Study Provides a Census of Early Humans
From the composition of just two human genomes, geneticists have computed the size of the human population 1.2 million years ago from which everyone in the world is descended. (nytimes)

Banksy film to debut at Sundance
Notorious street artist Banksy, whose work has decorated his home town of Bristol and Israel’s West Bank barrier, has turned his hand to film-making. (bbc)

Apple Sees New Money in Old Media
Steve Jobs’s Tablet Device Looks to Repackage TV, Magazines, Just as iPod Changed Music Sales. (wsj)

Starbucks raises prices of complex drink orders
The coffee chain rolled out a new pricing plan last week, boosting the cost of some menu items by as much as 33 percent in several large U.S. and Canadian markets, according to published reports. (msnbc)

The 15 Finest Fathers From Sit-Coms
Though the mother always seemed to initiate the life lessons and often brought dad up to speed on the goings on with the family while he was away, it was always the patriarchal figure that ultimately sat the kid down and gave him the nice, calm lectures and hugged it out at the end. The dad was strong, never to domineering, and most often the comic relief… of the parents, anyway. The dads were the people kids like me looked up to while I was blankly staring at the screen while a divorce went on behind me, but that’s neither here nor there. (gunaxin)

John Travolta/Nicolas Cage Venn Diagram
One of the things about the current film landscape that perplexes me the most is the conundrums that are John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. They were listed in my top 10 worst things of the 2000s. I’ve written basically a thesis paper on why Travolta sucks. I’ve celebrated Nic Cage as Everyone (I think my favorite is Gandalf). I have no clue why they need so many cars, houses and planes. Nor do I have any clue what’s going on with their hair (plugs?). (flicksided)

How to destroy a man in 30 days
Brad is starting to fall for me, our date went just as planned and he has asked me to hang out with him again. When I met Brad I only saw his exterior, but now it is time to see the root of his douche bag ways. What made him treat girls as objects rather then human beings? What made him so shallow, creating a monster only to bring hurt rather than joy? (blogspot)

Mystery visitor to Poe’s grave is a no-show
It is what Edgar Allan Poe might have called “a mystery all insoluble”: Every year for the past six decades, a shadowy visitor would leave roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on Poe’s grave on the anniversary of the writer’s birth. This year, no one showed. (yahoo)

Poe Toaster Might Be Dead Performer
A mysterious visitor who left roses and cognac at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe each year on the writer’s birthday failed to show early Tuesday, breaking with a ritual that began more than 60 years ago. (wbal)

Mystery novelist Robert Parker dies at 77
Mr. Parker’s marquee character became a TV series, “Spenser for Hire,” starring Robert Urich. “Jesse Stone” became a TV vehicle for Tom Selleck, and “Appaloosa,” his 2005 Western, was made into a 2008 movie directed by and starring Ed Harris. (boston.com)

Folk singer Kate McGarrigle dies
She is the mother of musicians Rufus and Martha Wainwright through her previous marriage with American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, a beloved folk icon in Canada. (cbc)

Dennis Hopper rushes to divorce wife as he lies on death bed
A longtime family confidant told The Post that Hopper is angry that wife Victoria Duffy is trying to bleed him for every last nickel — although he’s given her a ranch, museum-quality art works and a wardrobe of couture dresses. (nypost)

Diamond oceans possible on Uranus and Neptune
By melting and resolidifying diamond, scientists explain how such liquid diamond oceans may be possible. (discovery)

Apple iTablet, iSlate, or iPad: Are you excited? –Here is all you need to know
When Apple officially announced that they will be going to have their special event on January 27th speculations and rumors are just like an airborne disease spreading in the tech community. And yes we already knew that the Apple tablet is said to be a “Kindle Killer” that’s why HarperCollins is said to be negotiating for an e-Book deal. Besides that media pad is also considered to be a gaming-pad, so the gaming industry is invited in the media event. However, as if we don’t know that the said media event will focus on iTablet or iSlate or iPad, we can also wait for iLife 2010 and iPhone OS 4.0. (techgeeze)

10 Manly Movies Women Secretly Love
Indiana Jones at the top of the list? You had me at hello. (stylecaster)

Quentin Tarantino Reference Manual
“Sure, Kill Bill’s a violent movie. But its a Tarantino movie. You don’t go to see Metallica and tell the fuckers to turn the music down.” (madatoms)

Journalists Out of Work, But Bono Still Has N.Y. Times Column
Leave it to a disgruntled Gen Y blogger who regularly complains about the lack of opportunities for young journalists to break through in mainstream outlets to be pissed about Bono’s place on the New York Times op-ed page. (trueslant)

Casey Johnson DEAD: Tila Tequila’s Girlfriend, Johnson & Johnson Heiress Dies At 30
ohnson’s death may have been from natural causes since a preliminary death investigation didn’t turn up any signs of foul play. (huffington post)

Former mayor admits to breaking into women’s homes to steal underwear
Ian Stafford, 59, resigned as Mayor of Preesall in Lancashire when he was arrested in connection with the missing garments. (mailonline)

Just add water – students invent alcohol powder
“Because the alcohol is not in liquid form, we can sell it to people below 16,” said project member Martyn van Nierop. (reuters)

Dating site for beautiful people expels ‘fatties’ after holiday weight gain
“Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded.” (cnn)

4chan Presents: YouTube Porn Day
It looks like 4chan has found its first major target of 2010. In a message sent to what is presumably a huge amount of undisclosed receipients, 4chan is announcing that this coming Wednesday, January 6, is going to be a very special event: YouTube Porn Day. (techcrunch)

Apple to Buy Quattro Wireless for $275 Million
Google recently forked over an astonishing $750 million for Silicon Valley’s AdMob, a Quattro competitor, which Apple had also made a bid to acquire. Both innovative start-ups are aimed squarely at the fast-growing market to advertise on smartphones, such as Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android devices. (allthingsdigital)

The Things
This is way cool. (clarkesworld via metafilter)

Bearianna Huffington Begs for Oral Sex and Purrs in that Weird Arianna Accent
Arianna Huffington: So powerful she will insist on being taken seriously even after we hear her sexy bear voice in The Cleveland Show, and read a blog about her sleep patterns and dream life. (gawker)

San Francisco’s famous sea lions have vanished
The animals began leaving in droves the day after Thanksgiving, almost as if someone had issued an order. But Boehm said the fact that so many sea lions stayed for so long is even stranger than their disappearance. (yahoo)

‘Best Job’ winner stung by dangerous jellyfish
Ben Southall – who won a contest to blog for six months about life on Australia’s Hamilton Island to promote tourism – wrote Tuesday that he was lucky to have survived his brush with the extremely venomous Irukandji jellyfish. (huffingtonpost)

Bodypaint Gallery (NSFW)
This Guy Dresses Women By Painting Their Naked Bodies in Star Wars Themes and More. (gizmodo)

NY’s Tavern on the Green restaurant bites the dust
The former sheepfold at the edge of Central Park, now ringed by twinkling lights and fake topiary animals, is preparing for New Year’s Eve, when it will serve its last meal. Just three years ago, it was plating more than 700,000 meals annually, bringing in more than $38 million. (yahoo)

Marilyn Monroe reads James Joyce
That is all. (tumblr)

Blue Moon on New Year’s Eve
Party planners take note. For the first time in almost twenty years, there’s going to be a Blue Moon on New Year’s Eve. (nasa)

Irony at its best
Some pics NSFW. (sharenator)

Bomb Attempt on U.S.-Bound Flight
A passenger on a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight tried Friday to detonate an explosive device strapped to his leg and later told investigators he had affiliations with al Qaeda and was trying to blow up the plane, according to a senior U.S. official. (wsj)

Actor Charlie Sheen Arrested in Colorado
The 44-year-old actor was taken into custody Friday morning by officers responding to a 911 call from a house in this ski resort town about 200 miles west of Denver. (abc)

Sherlock Holmes Gives Brainy Detective Plenty of Brawn
Robert Downey Jr. may not be tall or British like Sherlock Holmes, but he does possess the single most important attribute needed to play England’s famous sleuth. The actor is smart. (wired)

Apple stock soars to all-time high
Santa arrived early for Apple Inc. shareholders: The stock surged $6.94, or 3.4%, on Thursday to close at a record high of $209.04. That topped the previous closing high of $207 on Nov. 17. (latimes)

Why Apple can’t kill cable
No wonder new reports of Apple and Disney, as well as CBS Corp., entertaining the possibility of a $30 subscription TV service is whipping up a new frenzy. And while The Wall Street Journal’s reporting clearly states that discussions are preliminary, it’s predictable that various blogs are already in vulture-swoop mode over the cable industry. As the hilariously breathless assessment from TechCrunch is entitled, “Apple May be on the Verge of Kneecapping The Cable Industry. Finally.” (thr)

The 35 Best iPhone/iPod Touch Apps Of The Year (So Far)
Happy Birthday, Charity. (techcrunch)

10 Must-Have iPhone/iPod Touch Games
Happy Christmas, Tom. (the apple blog)

Yule log video for a warmer Christmas
Watch it in full screen on your new Mac. (dailynews)

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