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According to NBC, the man who jumped out of the Bronx Zoo’s monorail into the tiger exhibit wanted to be ‘one with the tiger’

My Flickr pic of Anderson Cooper taken at Ground Zero last year, is now being used by news agencies. Cool. And thanks for crediting me, even though you got my name wrong. Here’s the original pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrepierre/5692274388/sizes/z/in/photostream/

nationalpost:

iPhone 4S announcement disappoints
Expecting a giant leap forward, fans of Apple Inc. have had to settle for one small step. Shares of the world’s most valuable technology company fell as much as 5% in Tuesday afternoon trading on the Nasdaq after chief executive Tim Cook unveiled an updated version of the 15 month-old iPhone 4, the iPhone 4S. The stock had mostly recovered by market close and was down 0.56% for the day.

Download Code: Has Apple killed the video game as we know it?
On Tuesday Apple rightly pointed out that they have the #1 gaming device on the planet. With 250 million users they aren’t lying. What exacting does this mean for games?

pulitzercenter:

The Revolutions Were Tweeted — an stunning visualization of information flows on Twitter during the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings. Go play.

the-girlieshow:

30 Rock 5 Nights A Week starting September 19
More promo videos here.

motherjones:

“We’re Gay. Get Over It.”

One week from today, the military will officially be done with Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Judging from the upcoming Marine Corps Times cover story, it looks like the military’s ready.

AJE's 'Listening Post': How did the 9/11 attacks impact the media?

currenteye:

When the two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Centre that day, the impact was registered by those who perished that day – and the countless others who have perished in the wars fought ever since.

But the force of the impact was also felt on the media landscape itself and its complicity in the construction of the global war on terror that rearranged and justified the political events in the ten years that have passed.

In a series of interviews with journalists and media commentators, we look back at a decade of lies, misrepresentation, manipulation, flawed or fake intelligence, and how many in the western media bought into that narrative and colluded in its construction.

Program is approximately 26 minutes long.

These people fucked me over… The board was so spooked by being cast as the worst board in the country. Now they’re trying to show that they’re not the doofuses that they are.

Ex-CEO CAROL BARTZ, unloading on the board at her former company, Yahoo.

Oh, I just love this. And not just because I think Bartz will land somewhere better.

(via Fortune Magazine)

newsflick:

BREAKING NEWS

Turkey is to expel the Israeli ambassador after details emerged of a UN report into last year’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla.

Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, announced the measures on Friday hours before Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, was expected to formally receive the report.

“Israel, in fact, has misused many of the chances that were given to them and the Israeli government, on the other hand, see themselves [as being] above international laws and human conscience,” Davutoglu said.

Turkey has demanded an apology from Israel for the raid, but Binyamin Netanyahu’s government has refused several times to make such a gesture. (Read More| 1,2)

inothernews:

Among the possessions found by Libyan rebels inside Muammar Qaddafi’s compound in Tripoli was a photo album, filled with photos of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Or, as Qaddafi called her, “Leezza, Leezza, Leezza.” Yes, really. Via MSNBC.com:

The former U.S. Secretary of State paid a visit to Tripoli in 2008 during a brief interlude that saw Gadhafi begin to be welcomed back into the international fold. As Jason Ukman of the Washington Post wrote on Wednesday, ”it was only three short years ago that Rice shared a late-night dinner with Gaddafi to break the Ramadan fast, three short years ago that the United States and Libya were celebrating what was to be a new chapter in their relations.”

In a 2007 interview with al-Jazeera television, Gadhafi spoke of Rice in glowing terms. “I support my darling black African woman,” he said. “I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders … Leezza, Leezza, Leezza. … I love her very much. I admire her and I’m proud of her because she’s a black woman of African origin.”

Dictators have creeper status, too.

(Photo: Sergey Ponomarev / AP via MSNBC.com)