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The Walt Whitman House in Camden, NJ, where Walt Whitman spent the last years of his life. Note: Whitman's House is the gray one in the middle, not made of brick. The house to the right serves as the Visitors Center. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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The Economist

• What to make of Mr Bezos's purchase 6 hours ago
• Zimbabwe's surprising election result 10 hours ago
• Money talks: August 5th 2013 yesterday
• The NHS goes global yesterday
• Hassan Rohani: Not a confrontational guy 4 days ago
• The week ahead: August 2nd 2013 4 days ago
• A decrease in executions in China 5 days ago

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Boing Boing

• Cetacean needed: Wikipedia whale diagram needs line-art 1 hour ago
• Some copiers randomly change the numbers on documents 1 hour ago
• EB White on why he wrote Charlotte's Web: "A book is a sneeze" 3 hours ago
• Danny O'Brien on civil liberties groups, the NSA and Bruce Sterling 4 hours ago
• Leaves of Glass: Breaking Bad’s Walt Whitman fixation, and 'Ozymandias' deconstructed 5 hours ago
• Charlie Jane Anders's sf story, "Victimless Crimes" 5 hours ago
• Jeff Bezos's letter to the WashPo staff 6 hours ago

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Twitter Blog

• An invitation to #ComedyFest (BYOB) 3 months ago
• This Week on Twitter - Apr. 29 3 months ago
• #OnlyOnTwitter: A Presidential Week 3 months ago
• New improvements to Twitter for Mac 3 months ago
• This Week on Twitter - Apr. 22 3 months ago
• Now playing: Twitter #music 3 months ago
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Gizmodo

The Longest Words in Different Languages Are So Fun to Say
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Though we know the real longest word in English takes three and a half hours to pronounce, more reasonable ones can be done in less than five million breaths. Like these ones! This video lets you hear the longest word in different languages like...

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  Does Anyone Actually Like Their Cable Company? - 3 hours ago

  Everyone's least favorite cable company is... Time Warner Cable. Joke. Not really. Maybe. Anyway!...

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GigaOM

• Stores to customers: Read our Gmail blasts, get a special discount 2 hours ago
• Hortonworks, Hadoop, Stinger and Hive 3 hours ago
• Marissa Mayer appoints former Google Zagat head to lead Flickr 3 hours ago
• This 3D printed robot can scoot along power lines to inspect them 4 hours ago
• Protag enlists the help of strangers to find your lost stuff 5 hours ago
• Twitter announces improvements to security and authentication features 5 hours ago
• AT&T and CSC join to sell clouds on telco-grade network 5 hours ago

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CNET News.com

• Shark Week show gets panned for being a fake 'documentary' 24 minutes ago
• Apple tops PC market, but lead shrinks, says Canalys 1 hour ago
• Marissa Mayer taps Google's Zagat chief to lead Flickr 2 hours ago
• Google revamps search to feature in-depth articles 2 hours ago
• CamelBak's new Google Glass app aims to keep you hydrated 3 hours ago
• WhatsApp passes 300M active users, adds voice messaging 4 hours ago
• White House to offer companies cybersecurity incentives 4 hours ago

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The Official Google Blog

• Dude, where’s my phone? Simple steps to protect your Android device this summer. 4 days ago
• Help inspire the next generation of technology creators: Apply for a 2014 RISE Award 5 days ago
• Make the most of the last weeks of summer 6 days ago
• Starbucks’ WiFi goes Google 6 days ago
• A new Zagat for finding the very best places 1 week ago
• From TVs to tablets: Everything you love, across all your screens 1 week ago
• Campus for Moms: Helping women entrepreneurs in Israel 2 weeks ago

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ReadWriteWeb

Facebook Shines Some Light On Its News Feed Algorithm
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Between advertisements you never asked to see and unnecessarily hidden status updates from your closest friends, it’s no wonder that Facebook has come under pressure from users to explain itself. Today on the Facebook business blog, the company...

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  Microsoft Tries To Spur Windows Phone Development With New App Studio - 7 hours ago

  Microsoft wants you to build an app for Windows Phone. Like, really wants you to build an app for...
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  Death By iPhone Charger Prompts Apple Trade-In Deal - 9 hours ago

  The death of a Chinese woman from a third-party iOS charger prompted Apple to launch a worldwide...

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Mashable!

• Design Hack Could Make Apple EarPods More Wearable 7 minutes ago
• Lolo Jones Tweets Story of Being Drug-Tested at Her Birthday Party 46 minutes ago
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• 'Rich Kids of Instagram' to Become a Reality TV Show 2 hours ago
• Apple to Trade $10 iPhone Chargers for Third-Party Adapters 2 hours ago
• Join Our Twitter Chat for Back-to-School Tips and Tricks 3 hours ago

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TechCrunch

• YC-Backed Glio Aims To Be The “Yelp of Brazil” And Beyond in Latin America 2 hours ago
• I Built A Windows Phone App And It Freaking Sucks 4 hours ago
• Airport Car Rental Startup Silvercar Quietly Launches Service At SFO 4 hours ago
• VMware Hires Former SAP Mobile Chief Sanjay Poonen To Shore Up Executive Ranks 5 hours ago
• Fail Week: When Kevin Ryan Held 7 Ugly Layoff Rounds - And Lost ‘Total Credibility' As CEO 5 hours ago
• Meet Appidemia, A Beautiful Application Guide For iOS In Case You Need More Distractions 5 hours ago
• Facebook Toys With Twitter-Style Feed Order For Posts About Real-Time Events 7 hours ago

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Twitter / AJEnglish

• AJEnglish: On @AJInsideStory : Can al-Maliki peacefully reunite Iraq despite his problems with his power-sharing government ? | http://t.co/nEmSKUBhiI 1 month ago
• AJEnglish: On the Blog: NSA leak: Little outcry, little change http://t.co/6xEu6A5aiC 1 month ago
• AJEnglish: We talk to Yavuz Baydar about the lack of Turkish coverage on the protests @AJListeningPost | http://t.co/hd4E5EHASR 1 month ago
• AJEnglish: Opinion: The International Criminal Court's Africa problem http://t.co/0lsAoitGBA 1 month ago
• AJEnglish: Opinion: Which philosophy is dead? http://t.co/KbGSQ4ZyrK 1 month ago
• AJEnglish: Iran's reformists seek opportunity in the upcoming elections http://t.co/160tr3KXvd 1 month ago
• AJEnglish: Thousands protest over Bosnia baby ID row http://t.co/SjhPaKggnP 1 month ago

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  Tens of thousands rally to oust Tunisian government - Reuters 6 hours ago

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  VIEW: Afghanistan: the nightmare continues —SP Seth - Pakistan Daily Times 6 hours ago

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  Japan unveils 'largest battleship' - BBC News 6 hours ago

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China fines infant formula companies 14 minutes ago

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