Apple is teasing a “huge” announcement for iTunes that will make the product “unforgettable.” Tech watchers are betting on a change to a cloud-based service in which your library would be hosted remotely, but accessible from any web-enabled device such as your iPhone. Others are guessing on a Zune-like subscription service in which you’d have access to all of iTunes …
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The Top Words Of 2010
The Global Language Monitor has issued its list of the top words used in English-language media worldwide in 2010. The selections are not necessarily new words, just words that suddenly gained heavy usage. 1. Spillcam2. Vuvuzela3. Narrative4. Refudiate5. Guido/guidette6. Deficit7. Snowmageddon/snowpocalypse8. 3-D9. Shellacking10. Simplexity Among the top phrases for 2010: teachable moment, ambush marketing, Lady Gaga, man up, Great Recession. …
Read More »At Least We Woudn’t Have To Move
Only four nations have populations that coincide with their rankings in square miles: Brazil, Ireland, Yemen, and the United States. These “what if” maps have become quite the meme of late. (Source)
Read More »NEW YORK: Liquor Authority Bans Malt Liquor Drink Used In Bronx Gay-Bashing
The New York Liquor Authority has moved to ban Four Loko, the caffeinated high-alcohol malt liquor drink that became known to many of us when it was used in a vicious gay-bashing in the Bronx, where gang members forced one victim to guzzle ten cans as they beat him. The State Liquor Authority successfully pressured the state’s biggest beverage distributors …
Read More »SAN FRANCISCO: Real Bad Party Donates $180K To LGBT Community Groups
This year’s Real Bad party, the closing event of Folsom Street Fair, raised a record-breaking $180,000 for local LGBT and HIV/AIDS groups. Via press release: Five selected LGBT health and community service organizations are sharing the funds raised, which include 100 percent of the money collected from general admission ticket sales. The beneficiary organizations are Maitri, the only residential care …
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BIZARRE: Two Gay Veterans Groups Endorse Stripping DADT From DOD Bill
We don’t know what this is really about yet, but this just popped up on Politico. Two gay troops’ groups will announce today that they’d support breaking off DADT repeal if doing so would help the defense authorization act pass – but they’ll keep pushing for repeal in the lame-duck Congress, Morning Defense has learned. The statement from OutServe and …
Read More »GOProud Begs Anti-Gay Teabaggers They Helped Elect To Not Be Anti-Gay
After endorsing a long list of anti-gay Tea Party candidates, a few of whom they also financially supported, today the deranged Quislings at GOProud issued a press release begging them not to be anti-gay. On behalf of limited government conservatives everywhere we write to urge you and your colleagues in Washington to put forward a legislative agenda in the next …
Read More »Newsweek Profiles Brian Brown
Saying he would “make a good politician” and calling him “extremely polished,” Newsweek has published a glowing puff piece on NOM’s Brian Brown which opens with a description of the hate mail Brown says he’s received. Brian Brown’s hate mail is divided into two categories: messages that go straight to the police and those he dumps into a growing computer …
Read More »GetEQUAL Stages DADT Vigil At Grave Of Gay Vietnam Vet Leonard Matlovich
Members of GetEQUAL, including Lt. Dan Choi, this morning staged a DADT repeal vigil at the grave site of Leonard Matlovich, the Vietnam vet who was the first gay man to fight for the right to serve in the U.S. military. The grave’s headstone, which does not bear Matlovich’s name, reads: “When I was in the military, they gave me …
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