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...using e-mail with the National Day of Unplugging people required 24 e-mails, two phone calls and one Facebook friendship acceptance. The day before I turned off, I talked to the guy behind the idea, Dan Rollman, who is also the founder of the Universal Record Data Base, the online competitor to Guinness World Records. He came up with unplugging as a way of respecting the Sabbath, without all the praying and not going to parties. Rollman, apparently, is working on a record for the most new ways to piss off the Creator. About 20 minutes into our conversation...
...mobile market declined for the first time since 2001 - the handset industry appears to be on its feet again, according to research firm Gartner Technology, with sales stabilizing at 340 million units sold in last year's fourth quarter. Some analysts expect the worldwide mobile-subscriber base to almost double...
...acid test of a movie's popularity is its staying power. Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too? fell a precipitous 62.4% from its opening three days - the biggest second-weekend drop since Valentine's fell 70.4%. Perry's fan base is avid but limited; nearly everyone who wants to see his films sees them the instant they hit the theaters. Other movies keep soaring on good word of mouth. How to Train Your Dragon opened two weeks ago at $43.7 million, on the weak side for a DreamWorks 3-D animated feature. But it fell only...
...Emboldened by their victories of the past few days, a contingent of Red Shirts attempted to overrun the First Regiment base on Saturday, only to discover a new resolve among the soldiers. Troops slowly pushed back the demonstrators, who threw bottles, rocks, sticks and iron traffic barriers. The soldier responded with water cannon and tear gas. Government spokesman Panitan said live rounds were fired in the air, and rubber bullets fired at the crowd. Red shirt protesters claimed live rounds were fired at them...
...victims of the Katyn massacres. "I hope I get a visa," Kaczynski had joked when announcing the visit. As part of the ceremony, he was due to receive an urn of soil from the forests were the thousands of Polish officers had been executed with a bullet to the base of the neck...