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I Want To Believe

vinny9 — 2010-06-21T13:57:05-04:00

The News As It Always Is

vinny9 — 2010-01-28T17:21:50-05:00

We Are Badass

vinny9 — 2009-05-27T10:33:58-04:00

Headline of the Month (BBC)

A year too late...

Alex — 2008-05-27T00:07:33-04:00

Wow. How did I miss this Fox news "Tribute" to Vonnegut:

People Powered News

dustin — 2007-11-13T17:57:57-05:00

The Real News Network is working on an audacious plan to change the economics (and truthiness) of television journalism. Watch their intro video, it makes a good case:

But I Did Get Crabs From Britney's Pictures

vinny9 — 2006-12-20T23:18:56-05:00

The Top Ten World Events Stories You Missed in 2006

Largest Circulation Newspapers

dustin — 2006-11-25T04:31:26-05:00

Worldwide, Japan has the largest circulation newspapers. English doesn't even come in till 11th.

1. Yomiuri Shimbun         Japan        14,067,000
2. The Asahi Shimbun       Japan        12,121,000
3. Mainichi Shimbun        Japan        5,587,000
4. Nihon Keizai Shimbun    Japan        4,635,000
5. Chunichi Shimbun        Japan        4,512,000
6. Bild                    Germany      3,867,000
7. Sankei Shimbun          Japan        2,757,000
8. Canako Xiaoxi (Beijing) China        2,627,000
9. People�s Daily          China        2,509,000
10. Tokyo Sports           Japan        2,425,000

English Language:

11. The Sun                UK           2,419,000
13. USA Today              USA          2,310,000
14. Wall Street Journal    USA          2,107,000
15. Daily Mail             UK           2,093,000
26. The Mirror             UK           1,597,000
37. New York Times         USA          1,121,000
38. Hindustan Times        India        1,108,000
50. The Hindu              India        989,000
54. Los Angeles Times      USA          902,000
62. Punjab Kesari          India        817,000
78. Daily Express          UK           720,000
79. New York Daily News    USA          715,000
80. The Washington Post    USA          708,000
81. Daily Star             UK           705,000
83. New York Post          USA          686,000
94. Chicago Tribune        USA          601,000

Here's the top 100 from all languages page that I took this data from.

Hot Grog: fast news

dustin — 2006-11-24T00:23:52-05:00

Hot Grog is a new website I setup to quickly read the internets. It uses RSS to grab news headlines from various sources and dumps them out in a simple list.

There's a few different pages covering various topics. Web Buzz is a great page to see all the fun stuff as it happens across the internet.

Please let me know what you think.

Some People Never Get Over Their Exes

Adrienne — 2006-10-24T23:31:10-04:00

I realize that break-ups can be hard and bitter and some people say they'll never do it again. But this is something else: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15399221/?GT1=8618

The title is even "Man Separates from wife - and his ring finger"