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@abulsme Updates from 2011-12-20 (UTC)

  • Reading – Palin: Not too late to enter GOP presidential race (AP) http://t.co/b7Shb6ZA #
  • Reading- We're Approaching That Brief Time of Year When Christmas Searches Eclipse Porn (Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic) http://t.co/Sh6YyQ4X #
  • MT “@fivethirtyeight: With the InsiderAdvantage poll our model now has Newt dropping to 4th in Iowa http://t.co/g5fANFK6#

@abulsme Updates from 2011-12-19 (UTC)

  • Reading – Paul Moves Into Lead in Iowa Forecast (Nate Sliver, NYT) http://t.co/V6uxBXWm #
  • RT @fivethirtyeight Our Iowa forecast, reflecting PPP poll, now shows: Paul 24, Romney 21, Gingrich 16, Perry 11, Bachmann 11, Santorum 10 #
  • Reading – North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dead at age 69 (AP) http://t.co/qm6cYJWB #
  • Reading – First Look at a Black Hole’s Feast (Jason Major, Universe Today) http://t.co/EznyjaDo #
  • Reading – The world's first audio recording is creepy, not made by Edison (Maggie Koerth-Baker, Boing Boing) http://t.co/1bbNbQVM #

@abulsme Updates from 2011-12-18 (UTC)

  • Reading – Newt Gingrich Would Send U.S. Marshals To Arrest ‘Activist’ Judges (Zack Ford, Think Progress) http://t.co/MyMJP7bF #
  • Reading – The Gingrich Dive (Josh Marshall, TPM) http://t.co/2znOvtls #
  • Reading – NYC woman set ablaze, burns to death in elevator of apartment building; suspect sought (AP) http://t.co/9g5i5nIU #
  • RT “@BreakingNews: Former Czech president Vaclav Havel dies – Czech TV via Reuters” #
  • Reading – Last US combat troops leave Iraq (Aljazeera) http://t.co/PfZPpF0Q #
  • RT “@rebliv: The twitter xmas lights at our house: http://t.co/Vyazi7fi #cheerlights white blue and love” #
  • Reading – Gingrich Downturn In National and Iowa Polls (Charles Franklin, Polls and Votes) http://t.co/kTyOIPJk #
  • Reading – No, the U.S. is not leaving Iraq (Justin Elliott, Salon) http://t.co/4YtqfXE5 #

@abulsme Updates from 2011-12-17 (UTC)

@abulsme Updates from 2011-12-16 (UTC)

  • Reading – Megaupload Video Reinstated, Universal Says “You Can’t Touch Us” (enigmas, TorrentFreak) http://t.co/k1enAZfe #
  • RT @VanityFair Christopher Hitchens, 1949 — 2011 #
  • Reading – Should Copyright Be Allowed to Override Speech Rights? (Marvin Ammori, The Atlantic) http://t.co/EJpuzIqN #
  • Reading – Louis CK's DRM-free direct-sales video experiment pays off (Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing) http://t.co/YyDVI9zN #
  • Reading – Piracy Is a Form of Theft, and Copyright Infringement Is Neither (Matthew Yglesias, Slate) http://t.co/OI4UxBsn #
  • Reading – Gingrich Momentum Slows, Polls Suggest (Nate Silver, NYT) http://t.co/X6BXeNMz #
  • Reading – Could the 2012 Election End with a Deadlocked Electoral College? (Josh Kraushaar, The Atlantic) http://t.co/1gZUUnID #
  • Reading – End of the line for the Ponds (Marcus, Doctor Who News) http://t.co/akL3u12U #
  • Reading – Can Paul Win? (Andrew Sullivan, Daily Beast) http://t.co/F71m2cYK #

@abulsme Updates from 2011-12-15 (UTC)

  • Reading – TPMMuckraker
    Obama Enrages Civil Liberties Groups By Dropping Detainee Veto Threat
    (Ryan J. Reilly, TPM)
    http://t.co/w4lmzcur #
  • Reading – SOPA backers: It's needed to take down The Pirate Bay (Declan McCullagh, CNet)
    http://t.co/RHYIpavw #

@abulsme Updates from 2011-12-14 (UTC)

  • Reading – Is The GOP Base Prepared To Re-Elect Obama? (Andrew Sullivan, Daily Beast) http://t.co/tCx0vDzg #
  • Reading – A First Iowa Forecast: Race Is Still Wide Open (Nate Silver, NYT) http://t.co/J6hW1kIT #
  • Reading – Entrails (Josh Marshall, TPM) http://t.co/cszwxplu #
  • Reading – A man, a ball, a hoop, a bench and an alleged thread… TELLER! (Richard Abowitz, Las Vegas Weekly) http://t.co/jAj5vCXw #
  • Reading – New: SMTP Support for the Amazon Simple Email Service (Jeff Barr, AWS Blog) http://t.co/bYuESTSB #

@abulsme Updates from 2011-12-13 (UTC)

  • Reading – Stand Up and Fight: A Week of Action Against Censorship (Rainey Reitman, EFF) http://t.co/a1w3Ks46 #
  • Reading – Mitt Romney Will Hound Newt Gingrich to the Gates of Hell (Paul Constant, Slog) http://t.co/AQjltm5D #
  • Reading – The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog is Now Online! (Paul Scott Anderson, Universe Today) http://t.co/6Hvlqrve #
  • Reading – Aptera Collapse: How and Why it Happened (John Voelcker, TPM) http://t.co/oddwjrY4 #
  • Reading – FBI: Carrier IQ files used for "law enforcement purposes" (Michael Morisy, Muckrock) http://t.co/jD5XOKcx #

@abulsme Updates from 2011-12-12 (UTC)

  • Reading – The Right and Wrong Way to Die When You Fall Into Lava (Erik Klemetti, Wired) http://t.co/TB1QTjWx #
  • Reading – Mapping Out The Primary Calendar: Why Mitt Romney Is In Trouble (Eric Kleefeld, TPM) http://t.co/CjriEvmE #
  • Reading – Newt Gingrich Is Not Ronald Reagan (Oliver Willis) http://t.co/kVFVHddv #
  • Reading – Canon EOS 1000D washes ashore in BC… reveals it was lost at sea for over a year (Joe Pollicino, Engadget) http://t.co/9hDWcuY1 #
  • Reading – Live-Blogging The ABC News Debate (Andrew Sullivan, Daily Beast) http://t.co/kvpmG5Zj #

@abulsme Updates from 2011-12-11 (UTC)

  • Reading – The most apocalyptic throwaway line in last night's GOP debate (Daniel W. Drezner) http://t.co/CR7oo6uh #
  • RT “@fivethirtyeight: Romney still dropping on Intrade. Now down to 40% chance of winning nomination. Newt at 37%. http://t.co/kgM5149F” #
  • Reading- Missing Episodes Recovered! (BBC) http://t.co/HHNeRf9p #
  • Reading – Addition Is Useless, Multiplication Is King: Channeling Our Inner Logarithm (Sanjoy Mahajan, Freakonomics) http://t.co/VK6WUId2 #
  • Reading – Polyphasic Sleep Cycles Trick Your Body into Needing Less Sleep (David Galloway, Lifehacker) http://t.co/gKzgWBn4 #
  • Reading – After $10,000 Offer, Some Bet Against Romney (Nate Sliver, NYT) http://t.co/zTm4tiRN #