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World News

Reuters

Chile maintains tsunami alert, no big waves yet

UK troops to hand over to U.S. in Afghan district

U.S. says Iran rights worsen, cites Sri Lanka abuses

Secularist list ahead in two Iraqi provinces

Police clash with protesters as Greeks fight cuts

Billionaire Pinera takes power as quakes rattle Chile

Medvedev democracy talk faces test in Russian regions

Death toll hits 54 from fighting in Somali capital

Venezuela murder-rate quadrupled under Chavez: NGO

Mexico drug gang hushes killings with news blackout

New York Times

Aftershock Measuring 6.9 Shakes Chile During Inauguration

Opponents File Challenges as Maliki Is Said to Hold Early Edge in Iraq Vote

Unease Hangs Over Mideast as Biden Ends Israel Trip

Chile’s New President Enters a Changed Political Landscape

Bullying Flap Shakes Japan’s Royals

Nigerians Recount Night of Their Bloody Revenge

Spy Chief in Pakistan to Stay On Another Year

Video Increases Public Mistrust of Moscow’s Police

Einstein's Theory of Relativity On Display

Barcelona Journal: Trumpeting Catalan on the Big Screen

BBC

Pinera sworn in as new quake hits

Greeks stage fresh general strike

Web censure 'curbs human rights'

Biden tries to ease Mid-East row

Extradition over Auschwitz theft

Iraq PM takes early lead in poll

Nigeria women protest at killings

Sri Lanka general trial date set

Pink Floyd win EMI court ruling

Mexican tycoon shakes up world rich list

MSNBC
March 11: Newsweek's Michael Isikoff discusses Karl Rove's new book which he believes skews the history of the Bush administration. (Other)Isikoff: Rove's book is 'cherry-picking of history'March 11: A public art display of anatomically-correct statues on New York City roofs is garnering startled looks and smiles from pedestrians, but a big thumbs down from the police. WNBC's Andrew Siff reports. (NBC News Channel)Rooftop statues cause a stir in NYCMarch 11: Self-made Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim tops Forbes' annual list of the richest people in the world, with a fortune of $53.5 billion. Forbes' Luisa Kroll discusses with msnbc's Contessa Brewer. (Other)The world's richest person is....March 11: Bill Neely with ITN News has an exclusive behind the scenes look at Taliban bomb makers in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan. (Other)Exclusive look at Taliban bomb makersMarch 11: Msnbc's Contessa Brewer reports three strong aftershocks, measuring from 6 to 7.2, have hit central Chile the same day the country's new President Sebastian Pinera was inaugurated. (Other)Aftershocks rock ChileMarch 10: ITV's Bill Neely gets exclusive access to Taliban bomb-making in the caves of Tora Bora.  (Nightly News)Making bombs the Taliban wayMarch 10: In economically hard-hit Muskegon, frustrated job seekers flood the Michigan Works employment services center every day—but even the center itself has been forced to lay off some of its staff. NBC’s Mara Schiavocampo reports.  (Nightly News)In Michigan, even job center staff aren't immune from layoffsMarch 11: Addiction expert Dr. Julie Holland, NBC’s Maria Menounos and former child actor Danny Bonaduce weigh in on the death of teen idol Corey Haim. (Today Show)Did Corey Haim have a prescription for death?
Korea

Chosun Ilbo

Kim Jong-il's Visit to Hamhung Is a Bad Sign

GM Daewoo Severs Ties with Sales Unit

No Arrest in Attack on Korean Student, Russia Admits

Building Overseas Campuses to Get Easier for Universities

N.Korean Foreign Minister Summoned by U.S. Court

U.S. House Bill Recognizes Contributions of Korean Americans

S.Korean Red Cross Sends Powdered Milk to N.Korea

Japanese Argue Over Secret Nuclear Pact with U.S.

Shipbuilding Industry Shows Signs of Recovery

Real Interest Rate Falls to 16-Month Low

Korea Herald

US WMD unit participating in joint drill with S. Korea

DP calls for merger with pro-Rho party

Toyota celebrates 10 years in Korea

LG Telecom eyes top spot in mobile internet market

CJ launches world's first antibiotic replacement

PM vows to develop nuclear fuel reprocessing technology

US won't pay NK to return to six-party talks: Kissinger

[EDITORIAL] Sejong dialogue

[EDITORIAL] The real problem

Expat Living events of the week

Korea Times

Ven. Beop Jeong Passes Away at 78

Korean Doctors Flocking to US

Samsung Tycoon World's 100th Richest

BOK Chief Leaves With No Exit Actions

US House Passes Resolution on Korean-American Contributions

Ex-IAEA Leader Calls for Uranium Bank

Buddhists of 2 Koreas to Discuss Joint Rally

Confusion Erupts Over Arrest of Crime Suspects in Russia

Foreign Minister to Visit Beijing Next Week

BOK Chief Leaves With No Exit Actions

Business

The Economist

Hire or fire?

Harmony in Riga

All for one

More than just a charade?

The name game

Trop cher?

Snoopy sniffs an opportunity

Accusations fly

Trading down

Wominnovation

BusinessWeek

A Food Fight for Chávez

Quake Shakes Pinera’s Plan to Spur Chile

Dodd to Unveil Own Financial Rules Overhaul

House, Senate Leaders Agree on Health

Bull Market Believers

Small Investors Remain Wary After 69% U.S. Stock Bounce

Immelt: GE Has ‘Added Back’ Employees

Why I Don’t Want a Child Talking to My Pilot

Most U.S. Stocks Fall on Chinese Inflation, Trade; Banks Rally

SNB Says Will End Its ‘Expansive’ Policy Eventually (Update1)

Forbes

The World's Billionaires

Bill Gates No Longer World's Richest Man

The Richest People In America

The Celebrity 100

The World's Biggest Companies

Beware Of A Double-Dip Recession

Behind The Scenes Of Apple's iPad Launch

Best Things To Buy In The Winter

Billionaire-Owned Stocks To Avoid

Technology's Richest Billionaires

Tech

Engadget

Novothink rolls out Solar Surge iPhone / iPod touch charging case

Barnes & Noble promises B&N eReader app for iPad near launch

Dolby issues Axon SDK to bring surround sound to online console / Mac gamers

Sony's ultra-compact concept camera gets slightly less mysterious

OpenGL 4.0 arrives, brings more opportunities for general purpose GPU action

Huawei announces SmaKit S7 Android tablet

T-Mobile webConnect Rocket available March 14, already blowing minds in Philly

$92 MD500 Android tablet from Hott actually looks pretty cool

Opera Mini 5 on Android mini review

TiVo returning to the UK thanks to partnership with Virgin Media

Wired

Google Reader Play: iPad-Friendly News Reader

Paragliding the Himalayas With iPhones

Ear Infections Could Cause Long-Term 'Lazy Ear'

Acorn Filmmaker's Fresh Tapes: Inside HUD

How Andrew Breitbart Hacks the Media

Minister of Truth: Meet Britain's Top Data Cop

March 11, 1985: ConnNet Lets the Public Jack In, X.25 Style

Classic Videogames Mutate in 'Game Over' Art Show

Classmates.com's Facebook Mimicking Prompts Privacy Suit

Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side' Eclipses Concept Album Classics

Slashdot

IE 6 & 7 Unpatched Exploit Goes Wild

Apple Blocking iPhone Security Software

Drizzle's Future Moving to Rackspace?

OpenGL 4.0 Spec Released

Sony's PS3 Motion Controller Gets Demoed and Named

Accidental Wii Suicide

Bill Gates No Longer World's Richest Man

Intel's Core I7-980X Six-Core Benchmarked

N.Y. Health Insurers To Offer Virtual Doc Visits

An Early Look At Civilization V

Science

Popular Science

Flying Fruit Slices and Exploded Parts Diagrams

First-Ever Full Sequencing of Unhealthy Genomes Illuminates Disease Roots

For Freshly Graduated UAV Pilots, a New Era Begets a New Set of Wings

Archive Pull of the Week: A DIY Gazebo Close To One Reader's Heart

Bigger, Better, Faster: The Quake Proof Airport, Floating Freighter and Fast-Acting Fake Platelets

Super Mario Gets Real Pixelated in DIY Arduino 8x8 Version

Oldest Known Flying Car is Up for Sale

The Light from Your Desk Lamp Could Carry Broadband Signals

Gray Matter: DIY LEDs

Transgenic Musclebound Trout with Six-Pack Abs Could Arrive Soon on Your Dinner Plate

The Guardian

Brain scans used to eavesdrop on thoughts

Genomes of an entire family sequenced

'Memories' of childhood sexual abuse may not be what they seem

Libel tourism is a public health risk

Science Weekly: Scientists gagged

Science must be a major election issue

More than two English species lost every year

Top scientists to review IPCC report

Men's sexual tastes broaden under stress

LHC gears up for world record energies

The Great Beyond

Voice analysis, British libel reform, and academic freedom

Women in space!

Thomson Reuters gets into the university rankings game

Update: Beefing IPCC bureaucracy and communications

US lashes out at ITER

IPCC seeks guidance from international science academies

Dearth of comparative effectiveness research revealed

Falcon 9 falters for now

Awesome underwater robot lost at sea

On Nature News

Society

Salon

Lindsay Lohan: Possibly not completely insane

Conan O'Brien will take his show to theaters

How to pee like a man

Biggest aftershock hits Chile on inauguration day

National education standards target media literacy

"American Idol" recap: Kara weeps, I drink

'Little Billy's Letters' at a glance

Author assumes guise of 10-year-old to punk famous

Success of lone gunmen may shift al-Qaida strategy

Data on Swiss account holders stolen

Slate

Slate V: Runaway Prius in California

The Slatest: Afternoon Edition

Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on Liz Cheney, Kathryn Bigelow, and why married people are too tired for sex.

Hey, Charlotte, about that thing you wrote last night …

Diane Ravitch's The Death and Life of the Great American School System.

My wife got an STD but says she never cheated.

Slate wants your best ideas for how to live a cheaper, more energy-efficient life.

How House Democrats can pass health care reform without voting for the health care bill.

Tinsley Mortimer's new reality show, High Society.

John Roberts' nonpartisan attack on presidential partisanship.

The New Yorker

Yoni Brenner: Mannahatta.

Vince Aletti: Robert Adams’s noctural landscapes.

Peter Schjeldahl: Juicy Fruit.

Peter Schjeldahl: “Skin Fruit,” at the New Museum.

Nancy Franklin: “The Pacific” on HBO.

Larissa MacFarquhar: A family makes a big donation to a village in Ghana.

John Cassidy: Timothy Geithner’s tough sell to an angry public.

James Wood: Conflict and convention in Chang-Rae Lee’s “The Surrendered.”

James Surowiecki: Private equity's egregious tax loophole.

Hilton Als: Penny Arcade’s “Bad Reputation.”

Opinion

Daily Kos

Party of Vitter, Ensign, and Sanford wants Massa investigation

House Dems to ban earmarks to for-profit companies

Durbin Tells Progressive Senators They Can't Have the Public Option Vote

Senate Progressive Dems on HCR

New Data Gives Conflicting Testimony About 2010 Turnout

More Mixed Economic Signals, But Job Growth Almost Certain

Today in Congress

Cheers and Jeers: Thursday

Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up

Open Thread for Night Owls: Paving the Way?

The Huffington Post

John Brown: Public Diplomacy: The World Should Be Teaching Us, Mr. Kristof

Bob Franken: System Corrections

Rebecca Walker: Richard Goodman's Happy Family

The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Immigration Opponents Take a Turn for the Worse

Jon Pedley, British Millionaire, To Sell Company, Help Ugandan Orphans

Conan O'Brien Tour 2010: Dates, Locations, Ticket Information

Eboo Patel: Rev. Otis Moss at Obama's Faith Council

I-70 Rock Slide: Interstate Set To Reopen For Limited Access

Mexico Hopes To Lure Filmmakers

Margaret Carlson: Never Trust a Naked Massa in a Tickle Fight

FOX News

Jailed Jordanian Cleric Is Al Qaeda Recruiters' Poster Boy

In Hard Economic Times, U.N. Hires More Staff

Massa Worry: Pelosi Aides Knew in '09

Dems Put America on Hold

Mexico's Slim Becomes 'World's Richest' Person

'Huffing' More Popular Among 12 Year Olds Than Street Drugs

Strong Earthquake Hits Chile as New President Sworn In

Police Release Photos Calif. Serial Killer Took of Girls

Miss. School Axes Prom After Lesbian Date Request

Canadian Premier Sorry for Pig Roast Flier With 9-11 Photo

Games

IGN

MTV Games Harmonix Unleash Green Day: Rock Band on the World June 8, 2010

MTV Games Harmonix Unleash Green Day: Rock Band on the World June 8, 2010

MTV Games Harmonix Unleash Green Day: Rock Band on the World June 8, 2010

GDC 10: Green Day: Rock Band Performed

GDC 10: Green Day: Rock Band Performed

GDC 10: Green Day: Rock Band Performed

Medal of Honor Preview

Medal of Honor Preview

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Medal of Honor Preview

Gamasutra

GDC: Peter Molyneux On Simplifying And Enhancing Fable III

GDC: Epic, Valve Offering Free Steamworks Integration To UE3 Licensees

GDC: InstantAction Reveals Platform For Instantly Playing Large-Download Games

Harmonix Releasing Green Day: Rock Band This June

GDC: Khronos Group Releases OpenGL 4.0 Specification

GDC: 36 Third-Party PlayStation Move Partners Revealed

Image Metrics Raises $8M, Completes Public Listing

GDC: hi5 Launches Game Dev Program To Attract Studios, Exclusive Titles

GDC: Refenes' & Saltsman's Baffling $350 App Store Success

GDC: Q& A - Sony Studios' Yoshida On Move Development

N4G

PlayStation Motion Controller Officially Named; Detailed

How The PlayStation Move Is NOT A Wii Remote

Final Fantasy XIII Sells 450,000 Units in the Americas on Day One

PlayStation Move Gets Its First Wii Port

IGN: Motion Fighters PS3 hands on

PS3 motion controller nunchuck is real, wireless

Perfect Dark Eurogamer review

GDC Sony Press Conference Coverage

Splinter Cell Conviction Xbox 360 Game of the Year?

Is EA snubbing the Xbox 360?

Music

Tiny Mix Tapes

Faith No More announce first East Coast reunion show

Zs announce new album, New Slaves, run rampant all over SXSW

Queen Kong - "Enough for the Whole World""The Rules"

Sunny Day Real Estate to record new album in May; get ready to dry your adolescent emo tears and start crying adult "sophisticated melodic rock" tears!

Scout Niblett

Yeasayer

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

Dust From 1000 Years - Marble Memo

Neon Indian

Smashing Pumpkins auditions for new bassist and keyboardist; prog-rock background and resume required

Pitchfork

The 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival Starting Lineup!

Peter Bjorn and John to Open for Depeche Mode

Kanye to Teach American Idol How to Sing

Pitchfork.tv: Dan Deacon: Live on "In the Studio"

News in Brief: Devo, Mark Sultan, Daedelus, the Soft Pack, Thieves Like Us

Beasties, Jane's Addiction, Depeche Mode Set for Lolla?

Metallica Reveal "Guitar Hero" Details

Video: Mastodon: "Divinations"

Jarvis Cocker Returns With Steve Albini-Produced LP

New Music: St. Vincent: "The Strangers" [MP3]

NME News

NME News

The Radio Dept announce London gig and European tour - ticket details

Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster to return with first album in five years

Gary Numan announces one-off London gig and ticket details

The Charlatans announce more 'Some Friendly' UK gigs – ticket details

Pink Floyd win court battle against EMI over online sales

Pete Doherty gets driving ban following manager's hit and run case

The Drums, Wild Beasts, Lightspeed Champion for Live At Leeds festival

Jeffrey Lewis and Daniel Johnston to co-headline London gig

Gorillaz set for UK warm-up shows with members of The Clash?

Film

Village Voice

Matt Damon's WMD of a Movie, Green Zone

Love, Angst, and Robert Pattinson In Remember Me

Bong Joon-ho's Mother Instinct

Leo Hurwitz Retro at Anthology

Noah Baumbach On His New Film, Greenberg

Zoe Kazan Seizes the Day in The Exploding Girl

'That's Montgomery Clift, Honey!' at BAM

(White, Male) Screenwriters Speak in Tales From the Script

Zhao Dayong's Sprawling Ghost Town

Children of Invention Offers No Spurious Uplift

Rotten Tomatoes

Total Recall: Matt Damon's Best Movies

Eastwood Eyes Hoover Biopic

Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, and Jack Black Could Have The Big Year

Segel and Helms Know Jeff Who Lives at Home

Wall Street 2 Bumped; 3-D Chipmunks

Variety Sued Over Negative Review

A Place to Bet Real Money on Movies

Leonardo Da Vinci, Action Hero

Corey Haim: 1971-2010

Christopher Nolan Talks Batman, Superman

Empire

New Toy Story 3 Poster Online!

Twilight: Eclipse Trailer Debuts

Exclusive Ajami Trailer

New Kick-Ass Posters Online

It's A Wonderful Afterlife Poster

Oldman In A Criminal Empire For Dummys

Leonardo Da Vinci: Action Hero?

New Robin Hood Trailer Rides In

Gary Fleder Hires Protection

Jason Segel Is Jeff Who Lives At Home

Humor

The Onion

In Focus: Nation To Be Tested For Scoliosis Friday

Opinion: I Didn't Spend 6 Weeks In A Medical License Reinstatement Ethics Class To Have You Call Me 'Mister' (by Dr. Trent Berstyn)

[video] Boys Tragic Death Could Have Happened To Any Family With 20-Foot Pet Python

Lohan Sues ETrade Over TV Ad

Couple Of Cool Guys Just Hanging Out

In Focus: Senate Candidate Drops Out Of Race Due To Shyness

How Are We Protecting Our Valuables?

Alternate Health Care Bills

Sports: Chris Bosh Out For Season After Cutting Open Knee To See How It Works

Universe Comes To Halt As Kid Flips Through First Shark Book

Fark

Your Shopper loyalty card: a great way to get discounts, special offers, and warnings from the CDC that the food you just bought could make you vomit blood from your eyeballs [Interesting]

Wait, Madonna is on Seinfeld's new show, the Marriage Ref? Hasn't she been married like 37 times? [Ironic]

In case you were wondering, shooting six of your co-workers is cause for termination [Followup]

Exploring one of California's most peculiar mysteries: Why do so many Chinese restaurants also sell donuts? [Strange]

Dublin, Ireland just got a leprechaun museum? You'd think they would have been on that already [Silly]

Photoshop this Lalique piece [Photoshop]

The US Dollar? What is that, like 97 cents Canadian? [Scary]

I'm just saying, some people just have that "registered sex offender" look about them [Scary]

NY lawmaker achieves the piNaCle of stupid [Dumbass]

Suspect in Auschwitz sign theft to be extradited to Poland, where he will hopefully be able to work off his sentence somehow [Interesting]

Truemors - stories: just in

Wolfram Alpha Claims Oscars 2010 Mastery

Fan Cries Until Justin Bieber Shows Up

Tiger Woods Apology Video Draws Nearly 700,000 Viewers

Flickr Flick Pro Accounts

Katie Price Daughter Allowed To Become Page 3

Online Petition to Get Betty White to Host SNL

Yellow Sing King Helicopter Being Chopped

Tila Tequila Returns to Twitter!

Verizon Blocks 4Chan: Revenge is Likely Imminent

Chavez Freaks Out Over Twitter, Calls #freevenezuela 'Terrorism'

Forehead Tittaes w/ Marion Cotillard
Forehead Tittaes w/ Marion Cotillard
Michelle Obama's First Lady Arms
Michelle Obama's First Lady Arms
Heidi Montag Says No to Plastic
Heidi Montag Says No to Plastic
Vag-A-Fit Commercial    -Moon County
Vag-A-Fit Commercial -Moon County
Masturbating Puppet on Chatroulette
Masturbating Puppet on Chatroulette
Raaaaaaaandy Declares War on Justin Bieber
Raaaaaaaandy Declares War on Justin Bieber
Funny or Die's Presidential Reunion
Funny or Die's Presidential Reunion
Buzz Sites

digg.com: Stories / Popular

Miss. School Prom off After Lesbian's Date Request

Thicker Than Water? Antarctica's Amazing Ecosecret

So you think your pet is Badass!

Supermarkets begin to charge for both plastic and paper bags

Here is a picture of Andre the Giant on a Honda ATV.

Does Going Green Make You Less Virtuous

Top 10 Political Memoirs

Breaking: 7.2 magnitude quake reported in Chile

RIP: The Novel

For Iran, Enriching Uranium Only Gets Easier

Reddit

reddit.com: what's new online!

Sexy Girl? Do Not Trust Profile Pictures!

Trolling: in 3 easey steps

News: This is not it.

How do you get stereo sound out of a vinyl record with one groove?

A Day In The Life Of A Programmer v1.0

Breaking: Second Earthquake Strikes Chile - Magnitude 7.2

Fallout 3 hardcore style

FINALLY! Youtube video quality/volume button spacing is fixed! Wait.....WTF!

No I believe this is the is the best explanation of American politics (pic)

Technorati

CA Buys Nimsoft

Barclays Bank Expands Contactless Card User Portfolio

RealNetwork's ex-CEO on The Next Mobile Revolution

Celtics Shame the Family Name

Chatroulette: Changing the Face of Social Media

Buying Life Insurance to Sell

Pac-Man Turns 30

Libertarian Candidate Runs On Platform Of Reusable Sports Logos

When An American Blonde Turns Jihadist

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