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United States Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry shares a laugh with vice presidential candidate Senator John Edwards at a concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, July 8

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A tipoff from the owner

When The New York Post tore up its front page on Monday night to trumpet an apparent exclusive that Representative Richard A Gephardt would be Senator John Kerry's running mate, the newspaper based its decision on a very high-ranking source: Rupert Murdoch, the man who controls the company that owns The Post, an employee said
-- The New York Times

Moral of the story for journalists: Never take a news tipoff from your organization’s owner

Yeh hai Mombai!

Indian court jails 11 for life bomb attacks
An Indian court sentenced has 11 people to life imprisonment in connection with bomb attacks on the country's financial hub, Mombai, six years ago. The 11 accused were charged with murder and damaging railway property in a series of explosions in local trains and rail platforms that killed four people and injured 30 in 1998. Last year, Mombai was again hit by a wave of bomb blasts that killed 66 people and injured 288.

-- Deutsche Welle

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Anil Dash's single post wins Google contest
The victor was a popular blogger who got his readers to do his work for him

Bloggers suffer burnout
Several noted that their readers seem to look at their regular, consistent posting patterns as somewhat akin to a sign of physical health. Any break in that pattern is sometimes seen as a cause for alarm

Welcome to Webjay
A media-sharing tool has quickly become an underground
hit. The site/tools makes it easy to build, share and watch playlists of audio and video links culled from around the Internet

Bug me not
Don't waste your time and register at hundreds of sites to read any news item. There are logins and passwords ready for you!

Shoveling coal for Satan
All journalists are cowards

Olsen twins spill milk


Milk mustache ads scrubbed, with Mary-Kate reportedly suffering eating disorder

Hindutva, chamcha, badmash
The Oxford dictionary has a new range of Indian words, including Hindutva, chamcha and badmash.
Hindutva: very strong sense of Hindu identity, seeking the creation of a Hindu state
Swadeshi: goods made in India from Indian-produced materials
Chamcha: obsequious person (The word originated from the Bengali and Hindi chamra and cham for skin or hide)
Desi (also deshi): local, indigenous, derogatorily rustic or unsophisticated and unadulterated or pure.
Badmash: dishonest or unprincipled man

-- sify.com

Bombay Awakes!
Immigration, global capitalism, and new media technologies are opening Western markets to Indian movies and music

Strange matter
Learn all about crazy stuff from ordinary things. Play games, watch videos or conduct experiments to learn more about science
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A peek inside Guantanamo
A two-day tour of Guantanamo Bay afforded The Associated Press the most extensive access ever allowed to independent journalists, giving them views of some 50 detainees, including some in a new maximum-security prison. One detainee said he, too, was a reporter

Everybody loved this spy... until he vanished
RAW fears sacked officer may be used by handlers to poach colleagues

Home Cinema: The 20 Best First Films Ever Made
One cineaste’s list, anyway, sure to start some arguments

Mumbai hotel discovers it's a treasure trove of Indian art
Paintings by three of India's best known 20th century artists, Vasudeo Gaitonde, Jamini Roy and M F Husain, wound up with 250 other paintings in racks in a fourth floor guest room that had been converted into a storeroom

Arranged marriage produces power couple
Nina and Gurmant Grewal are Canada's first husband-and-wife team in Parliament

Salman Haider may be UN special representative to Iraq
India's foreign secretary is likely to accept the appointment as UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Representative to Iraq, diplomatic sources told Xinhuanet. Haider, a former ambassador to China and Britain, is on a five-person list for the top UN envoy to Iraq which has been suggested months ago by Annan's secretariat, a diplomat told Xinhua.

Have you seen what's on TV-Shirt today?
Americans falling short of the daily average of three hours spent watching television have a new opportunity to catch up. A San Francisco marketer is sending models out in public in T-shirts with built-in television sets

Hip-swaying dancing doll ridicules Saddam
Iraqis used to dance to his tune, but in Baghdad toy shops a chubby, gun-toting doll now wiggles his hips to the Hippy Hippy Shake.