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Happy 30th Birthday Apple!
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Washington Post
American journalist Jill Carroll, abducted in early January by gunmen in Baghdad, was released to a Sunni Arab political party in the capital Thursday morning after 82 days in captivity.
“I was never hurt, ever hit,” she told a Washington Post reporter. “I was kept in a safe place and treated very well.”
Good News.

WSJ.com has an article on how France has transformed itself from a “backward broadband” market to one that has much faster high speed internet access with much cheaper prices than we get here in the U.S..
This just pisses me off. Not because it’s France I have no problems with France. You keep reading articles [...]

Om Malik has a great post on Nokia and their hopes of burying the iPod. He also in the post discusses the DRM issue in France and he’s right on the mark in my opinion on that issue. Contrary to most comments I’ve seen floating around.
Tags: Apple, DRM, iPod, France, Nokia

deseretnews.com
Cedar City police have arrested a man they said used an electric dog collar to shock two of his children when they acted out.
The 45-year-old man admitted to officers that he used the remote-controlled shock collar to discipline two 6-year-old boys in his home, said Cedar City Police Sgt. Jerry Womack. “He just felt that [...]

Yahoo! News Another reason the World Baseball Classic is a joke.
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